《thestolengeneration被偷走的一代》-课件设计（公开）.pptVIP

Unit Six Lesson Twenty-one Features of Australia Preparatory questions: 1. Do you know anything about the so-called “Stolen Generation”? 2. What do you know about the Aborigines? 3. Discuss with each other on the racial problems that you know. Who are the Aborigines Aborigine means “native” Original people of Australia Traveled in canoes from SE Asia Lived there at least 40,000 years as the only people Developed unique beliefs about creation Survived as hunters and observers Many died from disease or starved when their land was taken from them by the Europeans in the 1770s Aborigines land Background Information Definition of Aboriginal Australians: The word aboriginal means first or earliest known, indigenous, (Latin Aborigines, ab: from, origo: origin, beginning). It was used in Australia to describe its Indigenous peoples as early as 1789. Background Information Recent government statistics counted approximately 400,000 aboriginal people, or about 2% of Australias total population. Background Information Background Information Background Information Stolen Generation Emergence of the child removal policy: Generally, there are two major reasons behind this policy: one is for the so-called child protection. Because During the 1920s, many mixed-descent children were abandoned at early ages with no one for them to turn to. Ideas of eugenics and fears of miscegenation are the second reason. The northern Europeans had this kind of ideology that mankind could be divided into a civilization hierarchy. This supposed that the civilization of northern Europeans was superior to that of Aborigines, based on comparative technological advancement. Background Information Statistics: According to the Bringing Them Home Report, at least 100,000 children were removed from their parents, and the figure may be substantially higher (the report notes that formal records of removals were very poorly kept). It stated: Nationally we can conclude with confidence that betwee