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The stolen generation was born of misplaced priorities and mistaken beliefs of the British settlers and their descendants. During the time of this tragic event, the belief among the Caucasians and the migrants, was that the Aboriginals were lesser and their culture dismissable. The government of the ‘newly found’ country decided that the best thing for the Aboriginals would be to ‘breed’ them out. Their aim was to assimilate the Aboriginals into the British culture. They did this by putting the children in foster homes and facilities with white foster families or workers. This was an expensive, culturally insensitive, wrongful action that went on for far too long. The cost of the government institutions was an unnecessary expense that caused exponential amounts of psychological damage as well as a loss of culture in the children taken from their families. This hurtful endeavor was caused by a deep rooted fear of the Aboriginals and a sense that the British were ‘above’ Aboriginals. The new government believed that they were doing the right thing and helping the indigenous race by introducing them to ‘civilized’ British culture.