What is old, is revamped, reworked and made new.
History is a very interesting thing, because there are facts in history, for example:
Dr. Barnardo's sent kids from England, to Canada and Australia, as indentured servants from the age 3 up.
The Australian and English have apologized but Trudeau, the relentless apologizer, has not.
Why? Because it was Caucasian children who were torn from families, or communities they loved/knew, and shipped to be (mostly) mistreated in far away lands as indentured servants. Slave labor.
J.F.K. was assassinated Bobby Kennedy was assassinated
Facts are things you can prove happened, the delicate details can be subjective, such as, the great conspiracy theory of who REALLY did the deed, or why J.F.K. was assassinated.
Examples.
Statues that remind us of instances from history, are revered in some countries, where there is an understanding that the subjective view of the person, place or instance depicted, may change but the existence of art, statues, places...keeps these things in the mind of the youth who may not find out about it otherwise.
The concentration camp remains, shout to the world that THIS HATE happened, despite the deniers, and we risk the erasing of valuable, if horrible, moments in history that we must not ever repeat or allow to be repeated.
To remove the reminder, you make it easier for history to be reshaped by those who wish a different interpretation, when history might have those little subjective nuances, but the facts, events, happened and good or bad, they enrich us.
We may hate what happened, but we can share the reminders with following generations.
When the British Home Children left England, most lost their connections to their families, cultures, personal history and their future generations struggle to this day to connect to what was lost.
When you remove a child, ship it across the world, and put it to work, what kind of knowledge of family, proper upbringing and indeed family connection, or ability to parent, can they have seen examples of, considering the masses that were mistreated?
My grandmother was lied to, told her mother and older sister were dead, and she was sent to Canada to work on a farm, with her 3 year old brother, who she never saw again.
My grandmother was 10, living in a barn, doing chores, growing up being abused and you want to discuss stigma?
So contemplate for a moment what this lady, as she grew up, knew of raising her own children? My mom was treated like a farm hand, with very little emotional connection, was not allowed in the living room, did chores just like the hired man...this is the fault of what was done to her mother by Dr Barnardos, the British government, and the Canadian government.
Mom was a far cry better, but she was not as affectionate, able to converse, or connected...because she had never experienced that herself, but she did her best.
There was no cultural connections, no knowledge of grand parents, great grand parents, and traditions? They were picked up without any foundation before mom.
History that is not acknowledged. My grandmother died at 105 and never received an apology, was gone before the monetary reparations happened, such as they were...and still today people are either ignorant, or dismissive because they were not a group of “minorities”...but many were abused, violated, murdered, and ill treated.
Only now, through the works of grand kids and great grand kids of these children, are there little monuments in cemeteries. Is this all they deserved?
So, I hear people being removed from their countries and brought here, and I know they will not lose their culture, ties to their homeland, and I am aware of the losses some may experience in connection but instead of being aware of the damage that was done before through bringing people here, we are doing it all over again.