Essay Impacts on Identity, Culture and Health of Indigenous Children – Sociology Assignment Help

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Impacts on identity, culture and health of indigenous childrens                                        

It is documented that the term Stolen Generation refers to well over 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families up until 1974. Critically discuss the impact on health and wellbeing that this example of institutional racism continues to have on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

• he welfare and the policeman
• Said you’ve got to understand
• We’ll give them what you can’t give
• Teach them how to really live.
• Teach them how to live they said
• Humiliated them instead
• Taught them that and taught them this
• And others taught them prejudice.
• You took the children away, The children away
• Breaking their mothers heart
• Tearing us all apart,  Took them away. ”    

White racism started during  19th century 

• Impacts on health, education, employment, culture and tradition
• Indigenous children experience dispossession of history and loss of culture, social and cultural domination
• Lower health status due to hesitated to visit medical personnel and  difficulty to access health services
• Separation of children from biological family and culture
• They use the term savage, outsider, uncivilised.