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Paul Buttigieg's Kinchel Racism Towards Aboriginal Australians

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B etween the years of 1910 and 1970 possibly 50,000 Aboriginal children between the ages of 0 years to 19 were forcibly taken away from their love ones. These children are known today as the Stolen Generation. This horrifying act was produced by the ideology of assimilation and the inferiority of those who are ‘black’ compared to the superior white Australians. Racism towards Aboriginal Australians was what caused the destruction of parts of their heritage and culture as well as the Stolen Generations lives. Though the time of the stolen generation has passed the lives of the children that were taken will forever be scarred by the abuse that took place during some of the darkest years in Australian history. Paul Buttigieg’s poem Kinchela …show more content…

Due to the actions promoted by racism against aboriginals from the year 1910- 1970 many Indigenous Australians have grown into adults still carrying the scars of the past. Some will never come to know their birth parents or who they truly are. They will grow old with the remembrance of a past full of torture and abuse that they will carry till the day they die. They grew up with the idea that their heritage should be rejected since it is the ‘inferior’ way of life. How would you feel if someone told you that your beliefs are preposterous and try to transform you into something you’re not against your free will? That’s the way these children lived for many years and with some still believing it years after the torment ended. The children of the stolen generations will grow up and remain traumatised from the racial actions of the past. To this day the adults that suffered the abuse for being who they …show more content…

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