Racism and Stereotyping - Indigenous

Often as colonization occurs, and the discovery of a new group of people are discovered, e.g Africans, Moari, Native Americans etc, the process of there representation to the larger world and to their colonies begins, in the first phase it begins simply as true to life portraiture and landscapes. While many of these paintings and depictions may not be as true to life, the aim of these works was to document these new people, their way of life and culture, this period of documentation would continue to the mid 1800's were the ambivalent depictions of aboriginals would then change to images of mockery, racism and justifications for white people so they don't have to feel guilt over the atrocities that occurred. With the creation of comic strips and their newfound popularity this interest in the Aboriginals grew into resentment and mockery, using them in adverts or or as comic relief.

These archetypes of the aboriginal man as slow, rabid and stupid,  or the Aboriginal women as hyper sexual and masculine became perpetuated and entrenched. These  comics and adverts acted as ways to justify the horrible way the aboriginals were treated, presenting them with animalistic traits allowed Europeans to come to the conclusion that they are but animals and therefore feeling guilty isn't necessary.