Thread: Reconciliation
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Old 06-02-2008, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by johnno View Post
For Example,If my Father,Stole your father's Car,
Should I, apologise to You,for his Wrongdoing.
to use an analogy like that, is in fact to trivialise a very serious issue. yeh except this car was worth gadzillions and quantizillions of dollars, now and long loooong into the future, this 'car' also had 40 000 -100 000+ yrs worth of sentimental value and goodwill, the taking of this 'car' (i'm not sure if we are talking about the awesome lie of terra nullus? or the stolen generation here anymore? - the title reconciliation would imply the former?) had much more serious implications than a simple stolen car?

re stolen generation, and yes poor white unmarried mothers had the same done to them for just as long - more than a whiff of religion in that situation - what about the poor english war orphans that were forcibly and unceremoniously shipped out to oz at end of war - theres plenty of examples, and they almost invariably involve poor powerless people as alluded too already, the original australians problems, is actually at least half to do with that?

I have read, and i strongly agree with this appraisal, its as if after so long in isolation from the rest of the world, the culture shock of white colonisation was so great and shattering, that the indigenous people, in the traditional and culture purity sense of the word, like a car struck bird found by the side of the road, never ever recovered from it, to this day. the sadness too great, and too deep