Rabbit-Proof Fence Film Analysis

Racial tensions, whether used to provoke and make light of another or because it is engraved into our culture, causes serious rifts in communities. In the instance where some people conclude that skin tones do not constitute other people as human beings, that creates an enormous issue. That is a keystone in some of the unjust laws that perpetuate in many countries around the world. Australian aborigines had lived on the continent thousands of years before the Europeans arrived. The dramatization of Rabbit-Proof Fence: Australia’s Stolen Generations, tells the story of three children, Molly, Daisy, and Gracie, that were taken from their mother and family and put into a state funded school for children that are half-cast, that is half Aboriginal and half European. According to the film, the goal of placing the children into the state run schools was in the
This is a core ideology of Introduction to Global and International Studies. This class gives us an introduction to the world through a multidisciplinary approach on how societies are formed based on the interpretation of history, geography, and economics and other social sciences (Anderson et al, Introduction). For example, through the lens of geography, people can understand how a culture derive their views based on natural occurrences; the land shapes the history of the people and their connection to the land. Economics is another aspect that plays a key role in how people understand their reality. The wealth of the country provides standards of living that informs the views of people. Therefore, in this example, if someone views the world through the lenses of geography (having a connection to land to call a home) and economics (having access to resources), they will have a positive outlook on others because they do not feel marginalized in their understanding of the