Post-independence colonialism
I spent some years in Australia and later in Canada, a completely different land from one another, very far apart by distance, very different by climate having opposite seasons to one another. One thing in common, both nation was and still part of British colony. During the colonisation period, British imposed cruel policy towards the native people of the land. “The arrival of the British to Australia in 1788 decimated the Indigenous population through massacres and other violence, introduced diseases and loss of access to land, resources and traditional lifestyles. As a result of colonisation Aboriginal people were removed from their traditional homelands and relocated to reserves or missions on the fringes of non-Indigenous settlements.” Towards the end of colonisation era, British adopted a new approach in imposing forced assimilation of the natives into their culture. Canadian natives, the First Nations suffered a period where, about 150,000 of their youth are removed by forc...