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Likewise, the Stolen Generation in Australia.
by EdwardDiego 4y ago
Likewise, the Stolen Generation in Australia.
- lisper 4y agoCanada too. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-apologizes-to-aboriginal-natives/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-apologizes-to-aboriginal...
- _trampeltier 4y agoSwitzerland too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdingkinder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdingkinder
- hef19898 4y agoOr Ireland. And just to leapfrog, Germany under multiple governments throughout history. It seems to be common practice to take children away from their families, if said families are not part of the group in power.
- aa-jv 4y agoSee also, the White Stolen Generation, where poor mostly unmarried (Catholic) mothers were forced - across the British Empire - to send their children, never to be seen again, off to Australia. To make it white. A truly vulgar and heinous facet of Australian/British history - alongside the already heinous acts committed against the original owners.
- Tangurena2 4y agoSome of the "orphan trains" in US history were populated with children stolen from urban hospitals & orphanages. Poor, unwed and/or Catholic mothers were told the child was stillborn, but it was instead sent "out West" to be raised Protestant. 19th Century America was extremely anti-Catholic. Many immigrants from predominantly Catholic countries were treated as "not white" or "not white enough" and discriminated against.
- rasz 4y agorussia recently stole hundreds of babies from occupied territories and send them deep into their own country.