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The Protectionism Policy for Australian Aboriginals (1901-1937)
The protectionism policy was brought about because the Europeans settlers believed that the aboriginal people were not self-sufficient; they couldn't manage themselves and therefore needed their assistance. This sort of a view was dominant within the European society due to the lack of a 'constitution' or 'government' within the Aboriginal community:the aboriginal people had infact, verbal rules for their society, but these were hard for Europeans to understand, as they were accustomed to their way of governing a country. The main factor which caused the great divide between the Europeans and Aborinal people was because of their differences in spiritual values, which relates back to the 'Dreamtime' in the Aborginal religion. Thus, Europeans declared the Australian soil as terra nullius (no-man's land) and decided to take control.
The protectionism policy which lasted from 1901-1937, was based on the idea of paternalism; Europeans were like a fatherly figure to the Aboriginal people. During the protectionism policy, every state in Australia, had its own set of rights for Aboriginal peoples. Aboriginal people did not have the same rights as European settlers at the time, and this continued uptil the introduction of the 'Self Determination' policy in 1972. The protectionism policy allowed aboriginal people to be put into reserves; land that was allocated by the government and in return, aboriginal people were provided with food supply, education and the Christian religion practises. Apart from that, several aboriginal people were sent over to war,and many did not receive any recognition for their efforts in fighting for Australia, because they were not recognised as Australian citizens up until then.
The protectionism policy later developed another policy, known as the Assimilation policy, which lasted from 1937-1967. The assmilation policy was the removal of aborginal children from their homes into European families, so they could be taught the European way of life, with education, food, shelter and the Christian religion. From the assimilation policy came out the stolen generations, which refers to the children who were removed from their homes. There are cases where children suffered from mistreatment and there are cases where children, (who have now grown up into adults) and have not suffered such consequences at all in their past. However, there is a common sense of loss of identity, culture and family relationships within individuals today as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by No2Rehash (talk • contribs) 13:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Is this not biased?
Under "Protectionism in the United States," the last paragraph very much looks like a partisan, biased argument, the kind you would find perhaps on Fox News. The most notable part goes as such:
"Northern Progressives sought free trade to undermine the power base of Republicans – Woodrow Wilson would admit as much in a speech to Congress. However, he was busy enacting the JIm Crow laws that would shame the country for eternity. A brief resurgence by Republicans in the 1920s and the tax cuts they implemented saved the nation. Woodrow Wilson's ideological understudy[citation needed], Franklin Roosevelt, would essentially blame the Great Depression upon the protectionist policies exemplified by the previous Republican President, Herbert Hoover.[citation needed]However, this was just political postering as history would prove."
Does anyone else here also see something partisan in this? -- And Rew 09:45, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, these are biased additions by someone with poor capitalization ("JIm Crow") and spelling ("political postering"[sic]). Dhsu (talk) 15:30, 7 September 2011 (UTC)