Monday, April 19, 2010

The question I will be answering today is this: To what extent did imperialist policies and practices in Canada and Australia have similar effects on the Aboriginal peoples of each country? To start, I say that in both Australia and Canada, the aboriginal people were ostracized and were treated as bad, savage, uncivilized people. Imperialism took over, and the native people were left in the dust, as the imperialistic people thrived in land that wasn't their own.

If that's all that was asked, then the question has been answered. Both country's aboriginal people were treated in relatively the same manner. They were undermined, degraded, frowned upon, ostracized, and even killed by imperialists. Their culture was lost, their way of life literally destroyed. The only good thing the imperialists did was bring technology to these normally uncivilized places. I mean, some kindness could have been used on these people...

But, all in all, I'd probably say that both these peoples were treated fairly similarly. Neither were managed the way they should have been, and they both seemed fairly helpless in the ways of the world. Eh, everything could have gone better, but there's no use crying over spilled milk.

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