The 1997 Bringing Them Home National Inquiry discusses how the Australian Government has used regulations and policies to force Indigenous children away from their families. This essay will discuss how racism in Australia has impacted the Indigenous Community. It will discuss how the Indigenous Community have been subjected to the Social Darwinist theory, the ‘constructions of race’, Assimilation policies, the Child Removal policies and ‘institutional racism’.
The 1997 Bringing Them Home National Inquiry the Indigenous Community has been alienated by the regulations, policies and practices used to remove Indigenous children (Australian Human Rights Commission 1997). The impact of these processes is still felt on the generations today. Indigenous …show more content…
The Social Darwinist theory is based on an idea that a culture will become extinct because they have not evolved enough to survive the new world and will die out from natural selection (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 39). A culture would be targeted on how their characteristics way differ to another culture, for example by their wealth, race, class, power, behaviour and their intelligence (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 38). They were considered to be like children which gave the excuse for evolved cultures to survey and dominate. The Social Darwinist theory related the Indigenous community to apes because they were considered a primitive culture and were thought to be a closer relation to the Stone Age. The comparison also came to compare their brain size and intelligence to apes. Their brain size, along with apes, was thought of to be fifty times smaller than Shakespeare (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 40). Their intelligence was thought to be limited because they could not count the number of fingers on their hands (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 40). Their language also showed no justice or goodwill, but they were considered to be slightly more teachable than an ape (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 40). Scientists also stole the skulls of Aboriginal people and studied them in relation to ape and European skulls. They found that the European is not a direct descendant of the ape and the Australian Aboriginal but …show more content…
‘Institutional racism’ is a type of racism that is framed in political and social institutions targeting a certain group to limit their rights. ‘Institutional racism’ in schools has been shown in the Bringing them home report. Schools did not allow Aboriginal children to attend if the white community objected. If schools allowed Aboriginal Children to attend, then the Aboriginal Children were segregated from the rest of the children. This caused Aboriginal children to not participate in school and drop out. Schools were not culturally appropriate for Aboriginal children and caused them to feel alienated from white society (Australian Human Rights Commission 1997). It also was a point in which Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families (Australian Human Rights Commission 1997). This type of racism has also been linked to mental health and substance abuse within the Indigenous
The 1997 Bringing Them Home National Inquiry the Indigenous Community has been alienated by the regulations, policies and practices used to remove Indigenous children (Australian Human Rights Commission 1997). The impact of these processes is still felt on the generations today. Indigenous …show more content…
The Social Darwinist theory is based on an idea that a culture will become extinct because they have not evolved enough to survive the new world and will die out from natural selection (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 39). A culture would be targeted on how their characteristics way differ to another culture, for example by their wealth, race, class, power, behaviour and their intelligence (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 38). They were considered to be like children which gave the excuse for evolved cultures to survey and dominate. The Social Darwinist theory related the Indigenous community to apes because they were considered a primitive culture and were thought to be a closer relation to the Stone Age. The comparison also came to compare their brain size and intelligence to apes. Their brain size, along with apes, was thought of to be fifty times smaller than Shakespeare (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 40). Their intelligence was thought to be limited because they could not count the number of fingers on their hands (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 40). Their language also showed no justice or goodwill, but they were considered to be slightly more teachable than an ape (Hollinsworth 1998, p. 40). Scientists also stole the skulls of Aboriginal people and studied them in relation to ape and European skulls. They found that the European is not a direct descendant of the ape and the Australian Aboriginal but …show more content…
‘Institutional racism’ is a type of racism that is framed in political and social institutions targeting a certain group to limit their rights. ‘Institutional racism’ in schools has been shown in the Bringing them home report. Schools did not allow Aboriginal children to attend if the white community objected. If schools allowed Aboriginal Children to attend, then the Aboriginal Children were segregated from the rest of the children. This caused Aboriginal children to not participate in school and drop out. Schools were not culturally appropriate for Aboriginal children and caused them to feel alienated from white society (Australian Human Rights Commission 1997). It also was a point in which Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families (Australian Human Rights Commission 1997). This type of racism has also been linked to mental health and substance abuse within the Indigenous