I recently got Rabbit-Proof Fence from the library to watch. For those of you not familiar with it, it tells the true story of three "half-caste" (ie, half white, half aboriginal) girls who attempt to escape from an internment camp after being forcibly removed from their aboriginal mothers.
It turns out that Australia had a policy that any "half-
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The Tutsi situation must surely be our most horrific current climate of forced ideology.
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Yep, whites (Belgians) went into the Rwanda area and created the whole Hutu/Tutsi thing by choosing some of the people there are being "more white" than others and creating an artificial distinction. Then look at what we got.
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My generation has a lot of issues about identity because of that.
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