Back in the day, the English "transported" white trash to the literal ends of the earth, i.e. Australia. Miscreants as young as 9 y/o could be dumped aboard a ship for a crime as mundane as stealing a wedge of cheese. If you made it to Australia, fine...if the ship went down in transit-also fine. Problem solved. 20% of the "convicts" were under the age of twenty. The modern equivalent of this travesty would be sending kids to Mars for misbehaving.. Robert Hughes details this kindness in his book about the founding of Australia.
Back in the day, the English "transported" white trash to the literal ends of the earth, i.e. Australia. Miscreants as young as 9 y/o could be dumped aboard a ship for a crime as mundane as stealing a wedge of cheese. If you made it to Australia, fine...if the ship went down in transit-also fine. Problem solved. 20% of the "convicts" were under the age of twenty. The modern equivalent of this travesty would be sending kids to Mars for misbehaving.. Robert Hughes details this kindness in his book about the founding of Australia.
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https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Shore-Epic-Australias-Founding/dp/0394753666/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2E0QAZ6YW7X1Y&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.hBcaNRxJyLcBUFmAgvfaqtdesmz-uYGMbyfvDzy-HS-U7s12b53sPFDS44UDcOdEx5NFCSDFpDbCc0k8l2sNusEIHW-bp9lwItXYfQNf64jS-L9UJ_RgEDsfq7cO4-XODHJbWxCfQkAVP9YPu8Oua6uFh7ITx7a4hAFSbhvCSpxBjgEJN67o-2dpPS7Z7WGy4MstPFMTMg70fD_yPe68bFk_elsdLaIC3cH9A5dbCldth2L89W3Xi3qE-wiXBketB6JiZqBajNTiU08_8crE5k6QgVZ952fCmXNeICpUOik.3iyxv3j86fIIcBfuSGHHF7xvt2ZurYLCcptMIyxGOOY&dib_tag=se&keywords=robert+hughes&qid=1720104726&s=books&sprefix=robert+hughes%2Cstripbooks%2C115&sr=1-3
Great example of the UK's old view of some as "waste people".