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"Rabbit Proof Fence"

What comes to your mind when you here the words "stolen generation." Maybe you think of the Holocaust when the Jews were unwilling taken to concentration camp's to suffer before their horrific death. Or you might think of the European settlers going to Africa to literally kidnap its people and bring them to the Americas for slave labor. Both are good assumptions but are far from what the "stolen generation" really is. Until watching the documentary "Rabbit Proof Fence" I would have thought the same. In this paper I will discuss what the "stolen generation" really is and reasons why it happened. Second, what the rabbit-proof fence is. Lastly, I will explain what the rabbit-proof fence symbolizes for the Australians and aborigines.
The "stolen generation" refers to the hundreds of thousands of aborigine children taken from their families in the 1900's in Australia. These children where usually of mixed decent and there removal was believed to be......

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