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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoNo, but in the 1800s they brought Native Americans into their schools and forced them to be as ‘white’ as possible, and killed those who didn’t conform.
Had they been more successful, most Native Americans would have forgotten all of their culture within a few generations.
On our end (Aus), I’d argue that we were “successful”. Outside of a few desperately keeping their culture alive, much of it is dead and gone.
The really shameful part is that we didn’t do it 2 centuries ago, it was 1960’s. And given we keep destroying their historical sites to make way for mines, it arguable hasnt entirely stopped.
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
It didn’t murder you, but do you keep much of your original culture?
The whole point of the stolen generation policies were to destroy the aboriginals culture. Its not a genocide in the murder sense, but the end result is the same, the group will no longer functionally exist.