谁才是真正“野蛮人”.docVIP

谁才是真正“野蛮人” 　　When the welfare officers came to take three-year-old Archie Roach from his tin-lined house in 1)Framlingham in southeastern Australia, they told his mother they were 2)escorting him to a picnic. His aunt tried to3)scare them off with a gun, but it wasn’t 4)loaded. Institutionalized in a Melbourne orphanage, young Archie was told his family had died in a fire. His 5)minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his 6)frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by whites to make an 7)Aboriginal child more like them. It didn’t work, and the combs weren’t the only 8)casualties. 　　Roach, now 54, is one of an estimated 100,000 Aborigines, living and dead, who make up Australia’s so-called Stolen Generation. At that time 9)Indigenous people were seen as an inferior race and those considered “not of 10)full blood” were encouraged to become 11)assimilated into the broader society so that eventually there would be no more Indigenous people left. Under a government policy that ran from 1910 to, unbelievably, 1971, as many as 1 in 10 of all Aboriginal children were removed from their families in an effort to “civilize” them by assimilation into white society. 　　The policy of “stealing” Aboriginal children, mostly those with some white blood, was devised in the early 1900s when 12)eugenic theories were widely 13)touted. In Australia, government administrators thought that by bringing mixed-blood Aborigines into the white world, the color could be “14)bred out of them” over a few generations. Meanwhile the fully black population, regarded as 15)irredeemably primitive, was expected to simply die out. The practice was not widely discussed until 1997, when an official inquiry found consistent patterns of physical and sexual abuse of the “stolen” children, of exploitation in the labor market and of social 16)dislocation that led many into 17)alcoholism, violence and early death. 　　Roach, who was taken from his family because he had a white grandfather, k