Influence Of Culture On Australian People

Australia has been a culturally diverse society since long before white settlement. The indigenous people had many different cultures, languages and customs, even members of the First Fleet came from a number of culturally significant backgrounds. Diversity in Australia took large strides 67 years ago with the beginning of the Snowy River Scheme which promoted skilled immigrants to come here and work, because as a nation just after World War II we lacked the manpower and knowledge to complete such a large and complicated project.

In comparison, knowledge and knowledge creation can be affected by cultural hegemony and ideologies which could call into question its value. Hegemony is the idea that people in power maintain power by influencing societies acceptance of their ideologies rather than using coercion (Rachar 2013, p. 238). In this time and age, this is performed by the control of media resources and Internet opinion (Kumar 2011, p.39). Media suppliers are highly experienced at emotive and persuasive content and reap the financial rewards of ratings (Edwards 2012, p. 69). In Australia, it is perhaps worth considering that a majority of our media, in particular, our newspapers are owned by companies such as Fairfax Media and News Corporation (Finkelstein 2012, p. 58).

Australia’s historical assimilation policy, which did not to raise the wellbeing for these people. Reinvasion Populations around the continent were introduced to diseases bought by European settlement, suffering inhumane brutality under white domination. The loss of their land and an approach of elimination and segregation continued until the the 1950s, when policies where then introduced to protect indigenous people from demorilisation and neglect. Indigenous groups were dislocated and the population had declined considerably, with no medical help to aid the sick and dieing. The Australian bureau of statistics reveal the health of indigenous people is worse than nonindigenous people, signicantly in the areas of with some arisk incidents including

Australia 's prime minister had changed from John Curtin to Francis Forde to Ben Chifley. He realised that Australia needed a long term plan so that the people of Australia could protect and defend themselves from potential attacks. World War 2 ended in about 1945 and communists (people who wanted everyone to be equal) started popping up in Australia. Australia was under heaps of stress due to war and other issues and they needed to populate or perish.

However, it is important to point out that identity is a complex problem that is often connected to the perceptions of the people, the stereotypes about the community, and observations of others about the community in question. The measures used to make an identity about communities are by far not accurate or fair, not to speak of a whole nation. Various factors have influenced the Australian identity. Some of the factors are the first white settlement that took place in 1788, the 1901 enactment of the Australian constitution which united Australia into one state, and the 1973 statement of Australia been a multicultural state, and the eventual passing of the White Australian

Indigenous Australian and Middle Eastern cultures have many similarities when it comes to the factors that influenced their dietary choices throughout history and today. However with these similarities also came many differences as well. Traditions, religion, certain rituals, beliefs, outside influences and historical events were all huge factors that greatly influenced the dietary choices and the future development of each of these two cultures.

Introduction of new temptations into Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people’s lives such as alcohol, drugs, processed foods or un-natural to their culture, technology (more in the 20th century plus), clustered living environments, un-organization (within the community, family), money and greed

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

Due to colonisation the Aboriginal languages declined, from over 250 different languages spoken, today around 6Loss of land and culture affected Aboriginal people physically, mentally and spiritually. Losing the connection to their land also meant the loss of their hunter-gatherer lifestyle making traditional ceremonies meaningless. When tribes split up people began to lose their purpose and identity (Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander cultural safety, 0 remain. Without language the connection to ancestors is also lost, impacting on the health and well-being of Aboriginal people

Asian culture can be seen everywhere you go, the increase of the Asian population in Australia and the large diversity of multicultural foods that are offered to the regular Australian citizens. The adjustment in the way that Australia is currently dealing with Asia is because of the rapid development in Asia over the last decade or so. Their exports have had a significant influence on the economies of the world. China is playing a key role in Australian exported products, with Australia investing more than $50 Billion into the Australian economy in the past five years, and most of it being from the energy and mining areas of Australia.

“From the surface one may look upon Australia as being the ‘lucky county’ however when explored deeper Kayleigh Richmond came to the conclusion that this so called ‘lucky country’ isn’t all that ‘lucky’ for marginalized groups in Australia, the literature of these marginalized groups in Australia certainly substantiates this point”.

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?

Maham Mustafa HSP3U0 Ms.Syed Cultural Comparison There are many similarities and differences between the Australian and New Zealander culture. Even though, there is a huge difference between the population size, the way people in both countries communicate, treat each other and socialize with each other is very similar. In both nations, people have a very open and frank way of communicating. The way they joke around may seem offending but it should not be taken seriously because they do not mean anything rude. In both cultures, bragging and self-praise is frowned upon because they believe that everyone is equal regardless of how much they earn or how big their home is.

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,

The six goals that I plan to try for the Self Makeover project are, for my personal life is to try and spend more time with my friends and try to go running multiple times a week. My campus or community engagement ideas are to go to a couple events here at Longview and to try to branch out and gain more relationships with Longview staff and other students. For my performance as a student I will get help from tutors and set a specific environment for me to study.