Australian Culture
Australian culture is complex and diverse, formed by many factors in the past, and is always evolving. Culture is the collective regard to the meaning of achievements or heritage in a society within a geographical region. Learned behavior, products of those behaviors, common values, geology, and outside influences are some major factors that define a culture. All cultures are unique due to these characteristics that define them (Samiksha, 2017). This causes every culture to be diverse and complex while also having similarities to others. Australian has a unique culture formed by harsh environments, colonial influence, conflicting social groups, and government policies of multiculturalism.
Australia is an isolated continent that primarily contains inhospitable barren environments. It is both smallest continent and one of the largest countries. Australia is located south of Indonesia between the Indian Ocean, Coral Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. Most of the continent has a low relief and arid climate, creating harsh conditions outside of the Pacific coastal region. The Great Dividing Range of mountains separates this more forgiving region from Outback, the vast inland that is mostly uninhabited (Powell, et al., 2017). Being separated from other continents facilitated isolation until Australia was colonized by the British Empire.
Due to less interaction with western civilization until colonization and harsh terrain created the diverse beginning of
Australia boasts one of the world's most multicultural societies. Therefore, it can be difficult to pinpoint what being "Australian" really is, or to define Australian culture. The best way to approach an analysis of Australian culture may be to compare it with another culture. Chinese culture is equally as complex and diverse as Australian culture, as both countries have a large variety of ethnic groups within their borders. However, in terms of the many aspects of culture such as meaning, language, human activity, lifestyle, works of art, and leisure activities, Australian and Chinese cultures differ from one another. Some of the aspects of culture that differ the most between Australian and Chinese societies include gender, lifestyle, and language.
Australia is a Nation with an enormously diversified ethic nature to the country. This report will help us experience and enhance our knowledge about the cultural aspects the country holds with it and also will give us an understanding of what it means to be an Australian. The report focuses on 3 major states of Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia. This report will be focused on understanding the various family cultures of the country, the festivals and celebrations that happen in Australia. This report will also give a brief about how and if the diversified cultural essence of the country impacts the patriotic essence of the nation. Finally, this report will help us understand what builds the nucleus that binds the various cultures of Australia. The work done on this report is major a research from the perspective of the common people and locals of Australia from various backgrounds who were either
Culture is a way of deciding who we are, it is not something we are born with but something we learn as we grow older. Aboriginals take a lot of significance towards the topic of culture as it is their way of living, and a broad description of who they are, and how they
Auburn is a suburb in western Sydney in the state of New South Wales Australia which had major changes that occurred over the years, the three major changes are transport population and culture.
The representation of Indigenous Australians in fiction and nonfiction texts are influenced by a range of factors. In the contemporary world of multicultural Australia, there has been a variety of ways groups of people are represented in texts. The Indigenous population is often portrayed in ways that strengthen harmful stereotypes. However, there are also a variety of positive outlooks and portrayals expressing their strength and achievements. In texts studied in year 8 English, the representation of Indigenous Australians in Crow country are characterized as outcasts and reflect cultural distinction. Newspaper articles regarding “Adam Goodes” demonstrates how preconceived thoughts from many Australians destroys sporting stars outlook upon
This report explores 4 key areas of the Australian Identity which includes, Traditional values and how sport affects the nation and how the passion of teams brings happiness. Stereotypes expressing that not all Australian appearances are bogans or tanned beach boys and that not the whole of Australia is covered by deserts. Diversity and Change explores how religion and culture affects the nation and how Australia has become a multiculturalist nation and supporting many religions and races but also shows how not everyone gets along with these agreements and decisions for cultures. Finally, Contradictions of how Australia really is and how the people within Australia create typecasts of how everyone acts and does in Australia.
Aboriginals or indigenous Australians are the native people of Australia. Aboriginals were nomadic people who came to Australia about 40,000 – 60,000 years ago from Southeast Asia. Religion is a great part of Aboriginal culture. The essay answers these questions: What do Aboriginals belief? What is a Kinship system? What is Dreaming and Dreamtime? What rituals does Aboriginals have?
Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. It lies in the Southern Hemisphere between 11° and 44° south latitude and 113° and 154° east longitude. The entire area of land is about the same size as the continental United States, or about one and a half times the size of Europe. The mainland of Australia has an area of 2,967,909 square miles. The country is divided into six states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia.
Health and community service workers can identify the impact of cultural factors on service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait client by building cordial relationships with other local Indigenous community controlled organisations that can share valuable referral services and advice about issues regarding issues like death and dying, to provide for the needs of their clients and the clients' families.
The indigenous cultures of Australia are the oldest living cultural history in the world and have occupied the land for at least 50,000 years. Prior to European colonisation Aboriginal people lived a semi-nomadic, hunting and gathering lifestyle. European settlement of Australia beginning in 1788 had devastating impacts the on existing indigenous population such as the introduction of many fatal, foreign diseases and loss of land and resources. European establishment brought rapid changes to Aboriginal society; in particular disease brought by the settlers played a fundamental role in the breakdown of Indigenous society. Prior to the Macassan visits and the arrival of the Europeans, Aborigines were generally free from disease however introduced
The ideology of defining a nation’s identity is elusively perceived as vague and is often stereotyped by behaviour that individuals seek to follow, also providing a sense of commonality that makes people feel they are part of a community. The broad diversity of cultural stereotypes is perceptible in Australian society, resonating with what it means to be an Australian. Australians have been distinctively shaped over time by political and social ideologies, which have led to discrimination. The significance of Australia’s history has reflected conflict, human rights, economic growth and the hardship associated with establishing a refined society in a harsh and primitive landscape. Throughout these stages Australians have attempted to seize an identity that makes them unique.
The experience of Aboriginal Australians since European settlement is replete with suppression of their cultural practices and knowledge by the dominant cultural groups in Australia. In the first century of settlement, these included land dispossession by force, theft of women, slavery and war, introduced diseases, and the missionary zeal for Aboriginal people to embrace Western religion and reject their own spiritual beliefs such as the dreaming. Moreover, settlement brought with it the assertion of British sovereignty and law, which effectively displaced indigenous customary law in the 20th century, further intervention into Aboriginal culture and life was evidenced in the Government’s White Australia Policy and an explicit strategy of indigenous
Ever since the European settlement to the early 1990’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures have changed and developed over time. However, the European colonisation of Australia brought very rapid changes to Aboriginal society and histrionically affected the Aboriginals way of life and their land. Australia has always promoted having a mix of cultures although not in the same way it does in today’s society.
Throughout history to present day, Australian culture has become the product of a distinct blend of established traditions and new influences. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the country’s original inhabitants, created the foundation for the land’s cultural traditions over 40,000 years ago. In addition, the rest of Australia’s people are migrants or descendants of migrants from various other countries who transported their own customs, beliefs, and value systems to the land. As a result, Australia’s culture has significantly broadened its social and cultural profile over the years, and still continues to evolve today.
Australia is both the smallest and oldest continent in the world, and it is the only country that is also a continent. [1] It is an island located between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific, just south of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. At 2,941,299 square miles, Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world and only about 150,000 square miles (about the size of Montana) smaller than the continental United States. Its interior land is a flat and sparsely populated desert, but as you move outward the climate changes to grassland, subtropical, tropical, and even temperate in the southeastern region. [1] While more than 70% of Australia is arid, the rest includes a variety of rich environments including flood plains,