It didn’t murder you, but do you keep much of your original culture?
The whole point of the stolen generation policies were to destroy the aboriginals culture. Its not a genocide in the murder sense, but the end result is the same, the group will no longer functionally exist.
Edit: to those downvoting DeathByBigSad, please reconsider, they are asking a valid question.
No, but in the 1800s they brought Native Americans into their schools and forced them to be as ‘white’ as possible, and killed those who didn’t conform.
Had they been more successful, most Native Americans would have forgotten all of their culture within a few generations.
On our end (Aus), I’d argue that we were “successful”. Outside of a few desperately keeping their culture alive, much of it is dead and gone.
The really shameful part is that we didn’t do it 2 centuries ago, it was 1960’s. And given we keep destroying their historical sites to make way for mines, it arguable hasnt entirely stopped.
There is more than one way to genocide. Contact likely ends in assimilation, which is functionally a genocide.
For a historical example of this, see the “Stolen Generation” in Australia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
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It didn’t murder you, but do you keep much of your original culture?
The whole point of the stolen generation policies were to destroy the aboriginals culture. Its not a genocide in the murder sense, but the end result is the same, the group will no longer functionally exist.
Edit: to those downvoting DeathByBigSad, please reconsider, they are asking a valid question.
Not that I’m in full agreement with the parent comment, but genocide is something that happens to groups of people, not individuals.
No, but in the 1800s they brought Native Americans into their schools and forced them to be as ‘white’ as possible, and killed those who didn’t conform.
Had they been more successful, most Native Americans would have forgotten all of their culture within a few generations.
On our end (Aus), I’d argue that we were “successful”. Outside of a few desperately keeping their culture alive, much of it is dead and gone.
The really shameful part is that we didn’t do it 2 centuries ago, it was 1960’s. And given we keep destroying their historical sites to make way for mines, it arguable hasnt entirely stopped.