Rabbit - Proof Fence was an emotionally intense film. The horrific reality the Aborigine people had to endure was not an option they had; the law was the law and it had to be obeyed. Although the natives were oppressed, discriminated, and humiliated, by the British, there families were brutally separated as well. It was disturbing to see the three young native girls viciously taken away by the police without any mercy; their pride and ideology was more crucial than a desperate crying mother. It angered me when the youngsters were forced to diminish their own language; all for the sake of speaking English, “the proper language”. They simply had to eliminate everything that made them Aborigine.

 Eurocentrism was portrayed in the film when the British tried inculcating their culture, beliefs, and religion upon the children they captured. Not only did they have to apply everything they were taught, but their skin color was a critical issue. “White” was the ideal skin color and as a European that was essential. Although the Chief Protector was racist, he still accepted those who had fare skin because that meant that they were capable of generating a white family. After all the lighter skin and European status was one of the many ultimate goals. As a colony run by the British government, no one who had the liberty to be who they were, especially non-white people. According the article Situating Colonial and Post colonial Studies by Loomba and Smith, “…colonialism can be defined as the conquest and control of other people’s land and goods (25)”. Certainly the Aborigine’s had no control of their territory or even their people. Everything was under the empowerment of the British Government. A great example Loomba and Smith provide is Shakespeare’s drama, Othello. The great commotion on culture, loss of identity, and oppression can be noted when he mentions “Shakespeare’s drama is about a black man trying to live in a white society, assimilating yet maintain his identity/his loneliness is an integral feature of the play- he is isolated from other black people, from his history and culture (31)”. The young Aborigine girls are obligated to live a life they aren't accustomed to; they’re given a new identity, a new culture, religion, and language. As children it is easier for them to absorb everything they are taught and shown. We can see Molly’s 8 year old sister Daisy beginning to like the new environment she now lives in.  She doesn't want to leave the things the British people had offered her and soon she’ll forget she was an Aborigine.