Re: Australia
I agree no 'invader' was squeaky clean but when you see all the benefits the Aboriginals have had over the years and see how some still live!!!
When the white man came here he found Stone Age man.
Now that statement really sums up attitudes of quite a few here in Oz. Did anyone ask them if this is how they wanted their lives altered by the invaders. Bit like telling those homeless people that at least we have warm dry shelters under our bridges for you to stay. The double standards all round are in full swing. I did not like the fact that aboriginals got so much media about the stolen generation but it suited politicians and media to run with it. What should have been done was a real scrutiny into the subject and included everyone who had a baby or child taken from them as both white a black mothers suffered the same indignity and not forgetting the amount of kids shipped here from the UK to populate this country. Oh well think I might get of my soap box and join the rest of those with their heads in the sand. Than again I might not as I grew up with compassion thanks to my mother that kept all of us even though it was looking like we where going to be shipped here because she had no husband.
That's the way the mop flops.
My thanks to Brian for this site.