181 4 Encounters 080527 illustrasjon fra KH? The stolen Aboriginal children received very little education. They were expected to work as manual workers and domestic servants in white families. As the children grew up, they experienced racism from white Australians. This is not surprising when we consider this: until 1967, Australian laws stated that “Aboriginal natives” should be left out when counting the population of Australia. Between 1910 and 1970, about 50,000 Aboriginal children were separated from their families. In 1998, the first National Sorry Day was held to remember how the country’s indigenous population had been treated. In 2008, Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia at the time, gave an apology to the Stolen Generations for tearing apart families and forcing them to adapt to white Australia. to decline – minnka inferior – óæðri an environment – umhverfi origin – uppruni to receive – fá a manual worker – verkamaður a domestic servant – heimilishjálp to consider – íhuga to state – fullyrða to tear apart – rífa í sundur to force – þvinga to adapt to – aðlagast Picture from the Australian film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002). The film is set in 1931 and is loosely based on a true story about three mixed-race Aboriginal girls. They run away from the British authorities to return to their family in the town of Jigalong 1,500 miles away.
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