The name is absent

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Where there is identity-diffusion there is a wishing that one’s parents
had been different, a feeling of shame in connection with one’s family.
The feeling of being a non-person is investigated in Statements 4
and 39.
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24.31   (a) Ilypothesis

It was hypothesized that, given the exclusion of Aborigines
from the theoretical framework of multi-culturalism and the history
of rejection of the race by whites, Aborigines would support state-
ments expressing the feeling of being a non-person.

24.31 (b)

TABLE 38

Comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal response
to Statements 4 and 39 - feeling of being a non-person

Statement

Agree . Not _r..

°. , Agree Disagree
strongly ^b sure

Disagree-Majority
strongly support

4. Sometimes I feel like
I don’t exist - that I
don’t matter to anyone

Aboriginal response(N=93) 4.4     25.6 23.3

Non-Aboriginal            ɪ. ɪ

response           (N=289)

29.3 23.9

(disagree)

35.6     11.1    46.7

23.9      8.8    43.4

(agree)

39. I don't really
feel anyone thinks
I’m important. No-
one would really
miss me

Aboriginal response

Non-Aboriginal
response