Australian Culture and Society Challenges and Characteristics - Sampl

Question: Discuss the main challenges for australian culture and society? Answer: Introduction: Culture and society are the two sides of the same coin. Culture means a practice among the society. Cultureincludes information, faith, art, ethics, regulation, tradition, behavior practiced by an individual as a member of a society. Australia is a multicultural nation. There is a great impact of multiculturalism in the Australian society. Original Australian native people observe a kind of culture but after European people come to Australia the culture and society started changing. The custom, law, ethics, faith, art were changed gradually. Socialization and its agent: Socialization is the process where an individual learns how to cope up with the norms of the society. Every society is changing day by day. Education, industrial development, change in morals and values change the flow of society. For Australia multiculturalism is also a important factor for social change. Some time it helps to increase the standard of the society but sometime it can be dangerous for the society because more and more changes can fade the original essence of the culture of that society. Characteristics of Australian society and its changes: One of the main features of Australian society is multiculturalism (culture, 2015). Australian people are known for individuality, equality, directness, punctuality, tolerance (Uq.edu.au, 2015). So this character of the people reflects the society as a whole. Before the arrangement by European countries, the Australia was not a single state. It has many variousnativecultures and languages at that time. After wards a huge immigration was also taken place which changes the culture of the original Australian society. Now the term multiculturalism is used to refer to the concept that Australian people have various cultural and racial backgrounds (Nederveen Pieterse, 2007). Discrimination in Australian society and its impact: Discriminationmeans when someone is wrongly behaved with other because of a particular quality or for difference in culture. Racial discrimination is major problem in case of Australia. After white people in Australia it seems to be very difficult for the native people to understand their culture. Thousands of native Australians were being killed by the Europeans. Original Australian people always misunderstood the concept of Europeans and they also feel that they are neglected. Native Australian also claims that the legislative frame work is also influenced by the white people. Many survey claims that genocide for racism is still present in the society (Korff, 2014). A survey in 2011 claims that more than 70% native people are experienced discrimination in academic and professional life (Korff, 2014). Conclusion: Australia accepted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) On 3 April 2009.At that time the then government claimed that it would raise native customary law above national law. The Government also accepts that the native peoples culture is somehow hampered. The changing nature of social and cultural arena somehow abolished the original essence of the native culture. The globalization and modernization to some extend help to fade the original colour of native Australian society. References: Culture, S. (2015).Socialisation and culture. [online] Academia.edu. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/2604792/Socialisation_and_culture [Accessed 24 Mar. 2015]. Korff, J. (2014).Racial discrimination in Australia. [online] Creative Spirits. Available at: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/racial-discrimination-in-australia [Accessed 24 Mar. 2015]. Nederveen Pieterse, J. (2007). Global Multiculture, Flexible Acculturation.Globalizations, 4(1), pp.65-79. Uq.edu.au, (2015).Characteristics of Australians - The University of Queensland, Australia. [online] Available at: https://www.uq.edu.au/study/?page=17941pid=17895 [Accessed 24 Mar. 2015]. Uws.edu.au, (2015).Australian Multiculturalism: the roots of its success | University of Western Sydney (UWS). [online] Available at: https://www.uws.edu.au/equity_diversity/equity_and_diversity/tools_and_resources/reportsandpubs/australian_multiculturalism_the_roots_of_its_success [Accessed 24 Mar. 2015].