Oceania is an insular continent placed in the south eastern part of the Asiatic continent. It is an insular territory made of the countries of Australia, New Zeeland, New guinea, and the islands of Micronesia, Polynesia, and Melanesia.
It is the less populated continent of the world (excluding Hawaii) and is reach in biodiversity. Australia is the most important country of the region with the largest territory, the higher population and the economical power of the continent.
Australia is the sixth largest country of the world occupying almost the whole territory of the continent. Its capital city is Canberra and is very influential in the decisions of this part of the world because of all the potential they have and the economical advantages they have.
The continent starts being populated since the first humans start migrating from south Asia to the island. Since the 16th century, Portuguese and Spanish had discovered the continent but they keep it in secret. Its written history starts after the arrival of the Holland in the 17th century. They let the land because they considered improper for colonization and in this way British decide to occupy the territory. But its real colonization starts during the “gold fever” when a lot of people move to Australia for the research of gold in the land and generates conflicts between the natural inhabitants and the foreigners that came for the gold.
The problem with the stolen generation in Australia
Some time ago, the Australian government and the church decide to create a mission for helping the aborigines to get into the society by taking away they children, educating them in the western customs and religion and in this way letting them integrate with the society. But the plan didn´t result that well, no families were willing to give their children to be raised away and the mission failed but some children were stolen from their families and the problem is now when the government wants to give them back home.
Those kids token by the government for the experiment are called the stolen generation and the government is trying to reunite those families who were spited some time ago. It is a hard mission because some of the children don’t want to go back to the original society and also some of the families are difficult to find and to reunite.
The Australian government thought that a beneficial act was being done by taking the children away from the wild world in the Australian desert and by adapting them into a new culture of the developed part of Australia, but it is hard to force a change of this dimensions into a children that is used to live in a certain way, also it is not acceptable to split a family even if the cause seems to be “for taking them into a better life”.
The result sows that natural things can´t be forced by an government and that the inclusion of a group into a society has to be gradual and with different strategies than forcing them.
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