Apologize is something of humans, who know and realized they were wrong and feel bad about it, but I don’t think it is useful, because they caused a lot of suffering to the children and families, they took away their babies without caring, they changed the babies and children name, they took way their roots, culture, family security, their country and their identity.
What else is needed?
The minorities need to feel protection, to have a government that encourage them to be what they are, because they are important as a minority, they don’t have to be as everybody else. They just don’t need excuses, they need to have the knowledge that it will not happen again.
I completely agree with you, since apologizing is not enough for replacing all the damages and humilliations British settlers did when arriving Australia. Their behavior should be lead by an attitude of respect towards all the countries that once were their colonies, instead of being proud of what they once were, so once did. Those "golden times of the british empire", should be a fact of embarrasement instead of proud. If they reflect this sorry feeling in all their actions then it wouldn't be necesary to say sorry.
ResponderEliminarMateo i have visited many blogs before coming to these one and i see something very particular and it´s the similar point of view about the process of asking for pardon. I dare to think that is related with the situation we have to live in a country with a civil war, were the victims just suffer and the compensation it pretty low or in some cases, none.
ResponderEliminarI agree. If apologizing was enough then nazis could do the same and WWII would be nothing more than a memory. Just apologizing won't change at all the damage they did, it should come with changes in attitudes and new behaviors that show respect, as it's made in Colombia with the National Disarmament Program, where participants not only show they repentance but promote activities and spaces seeking for social tissue reconstruction.
ResponderEliminarMateo, I´m Sure You could have done a better job on your Blog, as you have pretty critical ideas.
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