Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Rabbit Proof Fence
The British people in the film, led by Mr. Neville, thought they were doing good by "breeding the Native out of them." Them, being the aboriginal people, of course. He felt that by not allowing these "half castes" to marry full aboriginal people, eventually, they would become "useful" to society. Because they believed they were doing good, can they be blamed?
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I think that they can be blamed because this is history repeating itself. Hitler did this to the Jewish people, except the Australians are not killing them on purpose (at first). Americans did this to African people. What the Australian people did was awful, saying that the Aborigines couldn't take care of themselves when they got kicked out of their own homeland. So yes, they definitely can be blamed.
ReplyDeleteYes, they can still be blamed, but not as much as someone who knew that they were doing wrong. The only example I can think of is the German general population during World War II. In the beginning, they thought they were doing good and did it without remorse. But towards the end, they realized that they were in the wrong and tried to make it right. They were still to blame, but the others who actually knew it was wrong take much more of the blame.
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ReplyDeleteI think the British people should be blamed. What they did was wrong. Mr. Neville acted before seeing the other person's perspective. Imagine if aboriginal people thought that "white" colored people were useless, and they took over Australia instead. Skin color doesn't mean anything. Is a white crayon any better than a black crayon? People are born with their color of skin, they can't do anything to change it.
ReplyDeleteTo clarify, it wasn't the German general population who did awful things to the Jews. It was the Nazi party who did that to them. The Germans may have betrayed some of their Jewish neighbors just to save their own children and families but they would never have done that if their life wasn't in danger.
ReplyDeleteI think the british people should be blamed for what they did, it was wrong. Although the british people thought it was good. the british people diddnt even care to ask any of the aborigonal people what they felt about what they were doing either.
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