My initial reaction when I learned about the ‘Stolen Generation’ was absolute shock. I began to analyse and question myself why I was so shocked. I found several reasons, this includes: (1) my lack of knowledge; (2) I am an immigrant; (3) my early education was from the Philippines; (4) the early information I have for Indigenous Australians is based on what I have been told by my sister and her white Australian husband; (5) my own prejudice and bias towards Indigenous Australians. Firstly, my lack of knowledge contributed greatly with how I reacted when I found about the ‘Stolen Generation’. The truth is I never imagine that British settlers would sanction such act. Maybe I was influenced by my own history, that when Philippines was colonised
