The respect and communication of different culture [2]
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关键词:respectcommunicationdifferent cultureArgumentmulticultural society
摘要:All in all, in forming a multi-ethnic society, a country still should try its best to make proper policies and take practical measures, many ethnic organizations in the society also can help to promote the respect and communication of different culture and make the multi-ethnic country stable and harmonious.
t of a series of groups that differ in ethnicity or related characteristics such as race, language, and religion are criteria for group status.” (Maykel Verkuyten and Barbara Kinket 75) ② English is the national language of Australia, “Although English is Australia’s national language, the cultural diversity within the population has resulted in over 200 languages being spoken in the community” (Australian bureau of
statistics 386)③ Other language spoke in Australia mainly are Chinese, Italian and Greek. Language also plays a very important role in the shaping of multicultural society. Australia pays much attention to the education of immigrants from other countries. It encourages them to speak their native language as well as English. As to religion, Australia is a country that each citizen has the freedom to believe or not to believe in any religion. Australian also has many religions such as Christian, Roman Catholic, Buddhism, and Islam and so on. “if plurality is to be promoted, then a new public space for religious dialogue must be created” (Majid Tehranian and B. Jennie Lum, 46)④in many cities in Australia, there are mosques, churches, temples and even in some colleges there are many religious groups. Towards these immigrant groups and the culture they brought with them, first Australia also try to assimilate, then integrate and now it practice the policy of multiculturalism. As a social policy in Australia, multiculturalism requires government to take proper actions to solve disputes among different nations and let the society stable with different cultures. The Australian government encourages different ethnic and nation’s inhabitants including indigenous Australians to speak their native language,and also encourage these people to contain and protect their culture. Australia has made the policy of multiculturalism. “The multicultural movement in Australian public policy is most closely associated with the Whitlam Labor government of 1972-75, and it linked population pluralism to public policy.” (Ozolins, U. 79) ⑤ In the policy made by Australia government, it includes admit the culture of every Australian, protect every Australian has the same right and opportunity. From the above aspects, we can see the multiculturalism policy performed by Australia is no longer confined in cultural field nor ethnic field but also pay attention to religion, custom. This policy also refers to respect people from different background and different countries. It focuses on the harmony of people and the stability of society. In order to implement this policy, Australian government established many institutes such as multicultural committee in the parliament of the party in power and the party out of power like the ministry of multiculturalism and the indigenous people affairs office and civil groups as well as social service organizations.All these institutes were set up to protect immigrants’ legal rights and their culture. Besides these institutes, Australia also begins to offer interpreters in hospitals to meet the need of minorities and also carry out research in minority people’s health habit.
The special broadcasting service (SBS) is a national, broadcasting network in Australian typically funded to meet the need of its immigrants from different countries. Everyday, SBS will use more than 68 languages to broadcast radio and television programs with English subtitles attached. “The point of SBS is to 本论文由英语论文网提供整理,提供论文代写,英语论文代写,代写论文,代写英语论文,代写留学生论文,代写英文论文,留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。