SOCI 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sign Language
5 Jan 2019
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They were thought of as an inferior race that needed help similar to the first nations in. Aboriginal people were presented as uncivilized and deserving colonization because their traditions were seen as backward and retrograde. They were to be absorbed into the white population in order to enhance their status to white , this occurred through taking them away from their aboriginal parents and helping them. They did not want the aboriginal race to continue, so they wanted to breed them out of people"s genes. The government thought they were doing them a favor and helping them. The idea that aborigines could be reformed or assimilated into society, and that eventually their. It was an ideology that was ingrained and became the hegemony. We face an uphill battle with these people, especially the bush natives, who have to be protected against themselves. If they would only understand what we are trying to do for them. - a. o.
