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This 8 page paper discusses the way in which the native people of Australia has been treated and the policy of assimilation and the way in which the official policies may be seen as leading to a form of cultural genocide. The paper looks at the way aboriginal and Tories Strait Islanders have been treated, before and during the official policy of assimilation assessing the overall impact. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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the treatment has changed and varied, but the assimilation policy that resulted from the interaction and policies towards the Aboriginal and Torres Strait people, negatively impacting, devaluing and destroying their
native culture. Amitage (1995) divides the history of the interaction between the indigenous and non indigenous people of Australia into four phases which may be seen as reflecting the
political and social views of the time, with one phase leading into the next. The first phase is that of initial contact, which is estimated as lasting between 1788 and
1860, the second stage of protected status lasts between 1860 and 1930, the third stage is that of assimilation which lasts between 1930 - 1979 and the last stage of
integration with self management starting approximately 1967 (Amitage, 1995). The most harmful stage was that of assimilation, but to look at the way that the dominant culture has effectively
enacted cultural genocide the attitudes of the non indigenous people needs to be assessed which gives context to the way in which assimilation policies were developed and allows one to
appreciate the way in which genocide took place. During the initial contact and the subsequent protected status there was the recognition of large differences in terms of culture. The
view was one of superiority, with the predominantly white immigrants perceiving themselves as both biological and intellectually superior. This is seen with some of the early references made to the
people, as seen with the report of Capitan William Dampier published in 1729, where he states the native people were "the miserablest People in the world........... who have no houses
and skin garments .... setting aside their humane shape, they differ but little from brutes" (quoted Overell, 1993). This demonstrates the perceived differences in culture. There is also the
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