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Rhetorical Analysis Of Stan Grant's Speech

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Racism is destroying the Australian Dream, is a speech that confronts the discrimination the Aboriginals received from citizens of Australia and aims to persuade these citizens to stop this once and for all. The native people of Australia were thrust forcibly by the first Europeans settlers into worthy-less beings in society and became seen as the degenerates of the world. Stan Grant tells to the audience the experience of his family’s in regards to their human rights. “ANECTODES.” Furthermore, cruelty has gone way overboard for the Aboriginals. The Stolen Generation is the crueles act Australia as a country has committed against the natives. Finally forcing the audience to become increasingly aware of the intensified discrimination as the years went on, which forced the audience to become washed with guilt from their mistakes. …show more content…

Overall, the speech persuades the audience through the use of Stan Grant’s anecdotes to realise their faults and have their conscience desire for them to do what is right in allowing the Australia Dream to become a reality, to become a country with racial

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