Oceania

The Aboriginals of Australia have like many other natives been (and are still?) suppressed. The Australian aboriginals are mostly living near the big cities in poverty. Many of them got drinking problems and drug problems. Specially the youth is sniffing petrol and abusing alcohol. About 15% of all the people who’s in Australian prisons are Aboriginals which is a very high number considering the population balance. Also the aboriginals’ lives much shorter than the rest of the people in Australia, An Aboriginal male have a life time average on only 56 years.
 * Aboriginals **

The aboriginals most likely came from south-west Asia for about 40 000-60 000 years ago which make them the oldest natives of the world. The Aboriginals lived as hunters until the Europeans came in 1770. The white man used Australia as a prison colony at first. A lot of aboriginals where driven a whey from their land and catched diseases that came with the white man. As many as 90% of all the aboriginals who lived in Australia when the Europeans came may have died of different reasons as a result of the white man moving to Australia. The aboriginals where treated like uncivilized animals, and a lot of them where shot for no reason.

After a while the aboriginals started to fight back and it was a lot of confrontations between the Europeans and the aboriginals. In the end of the 1800s the Europeans started to get sick of the confrontations and started to kill of a lot of the aboriginals and take away the children to learn them about western and Christian values. This generation is of the aboriginals often referred to as “the stolen generation”.

After the Second World War the aboriginals living standards finally started to approve, but they didn’t get their citizenship before in 1967. But the racism against the aboriginals is still big, and the political party “One nation” is working to make take away the aboriginals rights. So although the aboriginals has much more rights than earlier, they are still fighting to get back some of their land and have gotten little help recovering after the “wounds” the white man gave them.

Kilder: Flight 10, Caplex, Wikipedia.