Since the dawn of time, humans have feared the idea of ​​difference, that anything different from you must be evil in one form or another. This is not only seen in history, the old idea that difference is bad can be seen in the Disney children's film Pocahontas (1995) by Eric Goldburg. Where history has been seen repeating itself, British troops have set out to take new land, but there are already indigenous people living there, but as they are uncivilized the land can be taken and the white settlers must civilize these people “who are not civilized”. “I don’t know any better.” But do they really help? “Here's what you get when the races are diverse…they're savages…barley, even humans…they're not like you and me, which means they must be evil”[4]. Therefore, this idea of ​​"civilized" is introduced to children at such a young age, even after most of these events have happened. Indigenous people were considered “uncivilized” and dehumanized because of their appearance and lifestyle. This meant that the Aborigines had no rights, no dignity, no identity, as shown by Will and Sal renaming the Dharug tribesmen with English names such as "Jack" for Ngalamalum, "Meg" for Buryia and "Polly » for Gilyagan. By degrading Native people, white settlers are essentially asserting that they have a higher status, automatically degrading them "they are vermin in the same way that the rat is vermin"[8]. This is seen through the paternalism presented in the epilogue of The Secret River. As previously shown in Act 2, Scene 18, Thornhill and the other white settlers have massacred almost the entire Dharug tribe and then feel an overwhelming sense of paternalism in caring for the surviving members.