Rabbit Proof Fence

Young aboriginal children being taken away from their families to live in camps hundreds of thousands of miles away. These camps were run by the Chief Protector of Aboriginals who was in charge of protecting all the aboriginal people. His way of protecting the aboriginal people was by forcibly taking them from their families and home. He felt as though he could do anything he wanted and no one could do nothing about it. Three aboriginal girls, Molly, Daisy, and Gracie (all of whom are related) are taken to these camps against their will because they are considered "halfcaste", meaning the girls have one aboriginal parent and one white parent.

The main issue I found to be discussed in the movie is the issue of white surpremicy. All people who were completely white had the power and control and believed that the aboriginal people were savages who needed help from the white. But the aboriginal people had been and were fine without the help of the white, they were able to provide and educate their children in different ways that the white people did not feel was correct. The movie showed a lot of material and information I was not aware of about the aboriginal people. I believe that this movie is showing the way aboriginal people were treated during this time period. The children taken, the children of the stolen generation, were taken without warning and if they tried to run away would be captured again. I believe society looked down at these aboriginal people because they were different and not like everyone else. I also think that the white citizens were in fear of what the aboriginal people would/could do at any point in time.

This movie looks at diversity in the way that people are all different. Not everyone is the same when it comes to race and the way they look. Everyone is different and the way they are treated is different as well. The diversity issue in this movie runs deeper then the way the aboriginal people were treated. They were also taken from their homes and families, taken against their will because of how they looked and who their parents were. But these children had no control of who their parents were, yet they were the ones getting punished for something that should not be punished.