A perceived stigma attached to convict ancestry.
a more confident Australian nationalism converted the birthstain into a hallmark
Example sentencesExamples
- I took a voyage of discovery through convict society in search of the birthstain.
- The poem is a riposte to his backhanded compliment to Australians, "Your birthstain you have turned to good."
- He was sadly shocked on arriving at Adelaide to find that his quotation about the birthstain was not to the palate of the people of New South Wales.
- Any search for a reason why Australian society saw its history as a birthstain must include an examination of the convict crimes.
- It is customary in Australia to dismiss the whole subject with a deprecatory reference to a birthstain.
- It reveals the involvement of British politicians and clergy in creating a birthstain that reached far beyond convict crimes.
- Having absorbed the widespread idea that the birthstain was a self-inflicted wound, I had my own assumptions about the outcome of this research.
- I wish I had a birthstain!
- He was unpopular in the colony due to a series of gaffes and misunderstandings, most notably over his reference to the birthstain of Australia's convict origins.
- I sought to understand why fear of a birthstain impacted at a family and a public level.