Apology to Aborigines

1. The English came into contact with the Aboriginals in 1788. While the English were colonizing, the westners tooks land from the aboriginals and forced them out of their homes.In many cases they were either beat or killed.

2. There was mass confusion when the british began settling in the city of sydney because there was no goverenment to run the town.They simply figured it was in there power to take land from the natives and foroce them to live somewhere else. In this time period the indigenous people began getting sick. They got diseases such as: small pox, measles and influenza. The Europeans brought non-native animals that destroyed the land.

3.The stolen generation movement began in 1909 which was run under the APB (Aboriginal Protection Board). The idea was to put all non full blooded aboriginals under white culture. The children were thought as slaves and servents in the future to work for the Britains, when in reality they were forced to be removed because aboriginals were thought as unfit parents.

4. The effects of what the Europeans did not only affected the people who were living during that time period, but also their children. The children began to learn about there history and where they came from. The children then became furious about some of the stories that were being told.Due to the frustration of their past and the abbuse that came with, many children led violent lives, which led to an early death.

5. To this day, many people are still currently trying to find missing children. Not just for the parents sake, these children have been through so much. Many of these children have hit rock bottom in adulthood because they are physically unstable. It's also hard to find the children because they have been mixed in with other races and it's hard to identify the children.

6. As an apology I would say to the prime minister, That the aboriginial culture has been around for thousands of years. Not only has the culture been around but so have the people. They know more about the land and the agriculture then the average australian culture. Another reason for the Stolen Generation was to eliminate the aboriginals because they were seen as inferior by the settlers. Anyone in australia will say that this is a horrible time period in history. By holding off a well deserved apology such as this makes the situation worse. All the aboriginals want/need is an apology that they deserve.

Savor the Trip, Don't Tweet it - Blog 5

       Elliots concern is people have the tendency to travel and not be able to get the full experience. Rather then viewing the world through their own two eyes people are caught up with looking through a camera lense or writing and bragging about it all over facebook. The role technology will have when I travel to australia and new zealand is hardly any. I do not want my experience to be taken up by being caught up with facebook. In my opinion, Facebook is used for people to be caught up in everyone else's drama rather then their own. On my trip I shouldn't have to worry about the lives of other people I should be embracing the beauty of the new countries that I'm visiting. A qoute that I think should get recognition is "Instead of having the experience, you are now observing yourself having the experience. It's a layer removed and just not as sensual". The main idea of this qoute it saying that people dont observe the trip for themseles they view it as something to brag about and post all over facebook. After reading this article I feel that Christopher Elliot has the right idea and image of traveling. In my eyes he is a real traveler and he travels for himself rather then for anyone else.  As a class I feel we should limit the use of technology, as a child I use to go outside and play and create my own fun, I didnt have to worry about grabbing a phone. All I worried about was getting a piece of chalk, or a jump rope. I feel kids are so tied down with tv's and computers that they dont know how to create their own fun. In australia and new zealand as a class I think we should only use technology when we are trying to communicate with our parents, or when were about to go to sleep (watch tv). We should be able to entertain ourselves without the use of technology. The trip should be about exploring.