User blog comment:Nausiated/Race and Racism in Marvel Comics - From World War II to 9/11/@comment-3317214-20110815141215

Man, I love reading your blogs. So interesting... But yeah, for me, as an Australian, perhaps our biggest racial discrimination has been against the Aboriginal people of Australia. The "original custodians" of the land that we invaded. And there was the whole thing with the "Stolen Generation". I don't know if you guys know about it, but it's about Aboriginal children who had some "white" ancestry, who were taken away from their families to receive a "proper education" from a culture that largely viewed the Aboriginal culture as dirt. They were educated in the ways of the western world, and lost all knowledge of their family and their previous culture. That remains to be one of the main reasons as to why parts of Aboriginal culture is dying out. Many of the rituals, songs, and languages weren't passed onto their children, because their children were taken away. I think the system was removed in the 70s or something, but the government only formally apologised a couple of years ago. Anyway, although there aren't many Australian characters in Marvel comics (Pyro comes to mind, but that's about it), I'm curious as to know, what stereotypes are used for Australians in Marvel comics?