The Stolen Generation Sparknotes

The Stolen Generation describes the period of time in which the many Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families in order to discontinue the passing down of their culture, language and identity. These young children were sent to institutions or adopted by non-Indigenous families and received little to no form of education in comparison to the level of schooling offered to the white Australian children. Life was immeasurably harsh for the Aboriginal children as they were growing up within a society which taught them to believe their culture was nothing more than rubbish and were encouraged to deny their own heritage. This disabled their ability to flourish and explore their potential in the world due to their racial discrimination which vastly limited their future pathways as they
Adolf Hitler, the famous leader of this group, had a vision of what he believed to be the perfect society which consisted of pure German’s with blonde hair and blue eyes. As this did not fit the characteristics of the Jewish, the discriminatory behaviour began with the segregation of the racial group in order for the German’s to rein power. The vulnerable Jewish were contrasted against the German’s as being inferior and were therefore targeted, based on the Nazi’s judgement, to become eradicated from the population. Jews were removed from their professions and schooling in order to be forcibly banished from their own homes to the crowded and poor conditioned ghettos, to enforce isolation and gain authoritative power. This discriminatory behaviour and desire for an identical worldwide nation resulted in the mass murder of Jews using gas chambers in a methodical manner. This highlights the severity of racial discrimination and the life threatening consequences due to the impact of the immoral prejudice beliefs held towards different ethnic