How can I relate this to the history of the Aborigine children in Westren Australia?

Question

"We have total-immersion school now because there was an effort…done by the government…They said we had to be civilized…they wouldn't let us speak our language…practice our religious beliefs. You were actually beaten for going against that."

I have trouble relating this to the history of the indegenious Aborigine(s) in Western Australia, in the movie: the Rabbit Proof Fence.

Answer 1

Westren Australia?  Is that anywhere near Western Australia? (That red line underneath words might be worth checking into.)

Obviously, someone is on an ego trip, thinking their culture is so much better!

Answer 2

Rabbit Proof Fence is perfect, and I will do my best to relate what I have to say to that.  The idea was that by breeding Aboriginal people with whites, they would "breed out" the indigenous in them, and breed them out completely, so they would no longer exist.  The best way to look at it, and please excuse the terminology, and I am not trying to be racist, is that they were trying to make them European or white. Their culture was suppressed by the Europeans because they were superior to the Aborigines.  As a result, these children lost their ways of life that they had known.

The scene in Rabbit Proof Fence that really demonstrates this superiority is when the European man is explain the plan of "breeding out the indigenous people" to the investors in his camp of children. It really does demonstrate what they really thought, and what they were really trying to do.

If you have any more questions, you are more than welcome to email me.