The Stolen Generation:
Those who weren´t recognized as heroes or braves.
We
all know Australia of today, few knew about the suffering of people who lived there .
Did
you know that happen in Australia between 1910-1970?
Indigenous
children born to white fathers and black mothers called Half Caste. They
were taken from the side of their families, forced to deny their indigenous
heritage.
They
were deceived, saying that their parents
had died or they had abandoned them.
They
were forbidden to speak their original language. They were abused, punished,
suffered hunger and cold in government institutions, received the minimum level
of education.
These
children suffered posttraumatic stress, depression, abandonment, no love, some
could not resist and ended their lives ... nobody ever called heroes.
Today
I honor them and say thank you for contributing to such a high consolidation
and the growth of Australia.
Soon, we´ll be
publishing more extensively on the history of this country, but it seems fair
to start with them, who paid the highest cost in the history of this great
nation.
It´s a very deep article. Now I can see that you were severously impacted with this topic. I imagine you helping all those people who were part of the Stolen Generation, and I´m sure that you would like help to each member of those children.
ReplyDeleteI want to ask you what would you do if you were one of those children's mother?
Australia's history is a very long and bloody history, just like pretty much all the countries. But the difference with AUustralia, is that in 1910, when the rest of the world thought that in those years slavery, punishment and injustice was not possible, Australia and the stolen generation appears. I am glad you "liked" this part of the history, I think it's important to raise awareness in these issues.
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