Why Are Apologies Important?

In early 1869, by a government of Australia’s regulations, Aborigines children were forced to remove from their parents for civilize them into a white society. These stolen children were called “The Stolen Generation” and it was a huge impact of Aborigines populations. This wretched policy was continued sufferable until as late as 1970.
On February 13th in 2008, a Prime Minister Kevin Rudd finally apologized to the Aborigines especially for The Stolen Generation, after 38 years of time.
Apology is important, which is an act of feel remorse of having wronged another. To apologize of your bad deed to sufferers, they might forgive what you did, or even they won’t, the fact that you apologized is showing you recognize and reflect what you did. So the situation will be much better then don’t, even it doesn’t mean that your bad deed will disappear by doing the apology.
For this situation, the apology made the colonized, Aborigines feel solace then before, also relief that the colonizers admit what they did and so do the colonizers, re-understood what they did in their history therefore reflect and endeavor forward to turn new page with confidence, as the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said in his apology speech. But because of such long period that the colonizers didn’t apologize, about 38 years, the colonized might think why they didn’t apologize such a long time. Therefore the colonized people may not feel good as the colonizers apologized early.
But still, it was necessary and important that the government of Australia apologized to The Stolen Generation of Aboriginal people. And that made the situation improved, but it was better if they apologized earlier.