hmm...very interesting subject.
I looked about for a definition and this is what I found.
http://www.eugenics-watch.com/intro.html
Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by controlling
reproduction. The word was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton, a cousin of
Charles Darwin. Galton believed that the proper evolution of the human race
was thwarted by philanthropic outreach to the poor; misguided charity
encouraged the "unfit" to bear more children. This upset the mechanism of
natural selection. Hence, the human race needed a kind of artificial
selection, which he called "eugenics," from Greek for good birth. Galton
wanted eugenics to develop from a science to a policy and finally into a
religion.
Eeeeewwwww!
So does this mean that a eugenecist would say leave the Aboriginal people to
fend for survival without assisting...thereby natural selection will weed
out the "worthy" from the "unworthy"!!?
Suze
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suze Collette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>
> > maria called for feedback and i am glad someone else has responded, if
> > unfortunately to me and not to the issues maria raised
>
> i'll get there soon...still drafting my reply to the issues Maria raised
> (juz v.bizee).
>
> > > but I understood Maria's meaning to refer to:
> > >"It is not my role to question the internal affairs of aboriginal
> > >communities, it is not my territory. Please do not engage me on
> > anymore of
> > >this."
> >
> > i should have pasted this instead - pardon
> > PS: I would also appreciate if you could spare me of anymore of
> this, you
> > could use the library instead
>
> hmm...perhaps u haven't taken this out of context Susanne?
> Personally I took
> that suggestion as a reply to your question: "can i know the
> countries/tribes/clans/ if not families represented pls". Lots of info on
> the family's involved if you search through the articles of Aboriginal
> Activism over the decades.
>
> > >It is simply not Maria's "choice" to discuss *this aspect* of
> > your question.
> >
> > agreed - i said "if you don't want to discuss it - that's your choice"
>
> nah...there was no choice, "it's not her role"...'tis a
> respectful answer as
> protocol being observed.
>
> > >On a different note, what it is that perhaps Aboriginal
> > descendants might be
> > >denying? Hence contributing to a festering as you suggest.
> >
> > maria said and i feel the same "I am sick of people putting the
> spot light
> > in the victims & survivors of genocide, dispossession, racism
> and not the
> > perpetrators of this brutal injustices."
> >
> > except i focus on actual perpetrators - not their identity - hence i see
> > both eugenics and genocide festering
>
> would you elaborate for me Susanne, coz I don't understand what you mean
> 'actual perpetrators - not their identity'?
>
> > both deny eugenics - destroy their own
> > one denies - genocide - destroy peoples
> > - in this denial - all are robbed of generations of thriving
>
> huh? how do you see that Aboriginal people foster an Eugenics
> philosophy? As
> I understand Eugenics (admittedly raw begginner), it proposes that all
> people are not created equal, that those people with inherited advantage
> (some kind of superiority?) will prevail and pass advantage to their
> children. Isn't Eugenics approving of an elitist superior group in society
> that feels a necessity to advantage their own over and above others?
>
> I must be in some kind of serious deep denial to not be able to recognise
> this Eugenics philosohy in our Aboriginal Society?! (worried)
>
> Suze
>
>
> >
> > in peace surely
> > susanne
> >
> >
> >
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