Okay, so I sat down and watched the Baz Luhrmann film "Australia" the other night with my aunt and uncle. After getting over the melodrama of it all, I realized that I really have no clue about any Australian history (unless you want to count my pitiful knowledge of the convict immigrants and the Stolen Generation - which, by the way, I only learned about within the past month of this course). I brought up this revelation during a conversation with a mate, and found that she didn't even know that Darwin had been bombed during WWII. I suppose that this information should make me feel a little bit better about my lack of Aussie historical knowledge (aka I'm not the only one who doesn't know these things), but it really only leads me to question why.

Anyway, I found some strong relationships between the segregation of African Americans in the U.S. and the Aboriginal community portrayed in the film - how the children of mixed races were affected is especially something that I really just find so completely inhumane. The idea of "breeding out" a race is absolutely disturbing. Despite my general uninterest in the film, there are some things that I'm going to take with me.

Just some thoughts.