The British people wanted the Aboriginal people to live the way did and they made an assumption that the Aborigines wanted too. They thought by breeding out and changing the lifestyles of the Aboriginal people, that they were helping them out and making them a better race. The missionaries assumed that by making them abandon their spirituality and religion, they were saving them from the devil and submitting them to God. The officials, mainly Mr. A.O Neville, thought that they were giving the half-caste children better lives by sending them to European families. Even though some of the Aboriginal people would have learned the English lifestyle and culture and completely changed into an English person, in that forgetting everything Aboriginal about themselves the white Australians still saw them as inferior and so they were still paid lower wages, they were not allowed to vote, they had to request for marriages and other restrictions were still placed upon the despite their
The British people wanted the Aboriginal people to live the way did and they made an assumption that the Aborigines wanted too. They thought by breeding out and changing the lifestyles of the Aboriginal people, that they were helping them out and making them a better race. The missionaries assumed that by making them abandon their spirituality and religion, they were saving them from the devil and submitting them to God. The officials, mainly Mr. A.O Neville, thought that they were giving the half-caste children better lives by sending them to European families. Even though some of the Aboriginal people would have learned the English lifestyle and culture and completely changed into an English person, in that forgetting everything Aboriginal about themselves the white Australians still saw them as inferior and so they were still paid lower wages, they were not allowed to vote, they had to request for marriages and other restrictions were still placed upon the despite their