Immigration and Multiculturalism in Australia

Running head: AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD
Australia And The World
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1AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD
This essay is based on the idea of immigration in Australia and the different kinds of
civilization strategies that groups of immigrants often employ and the most beneficial one to
multiculturalism. The author believes that Australia can be a unique example of
multiculturalism and therefore why it is important to respect the delicateness of this position.
Therefore, this essay tends to argue on the identification of a true Australian, how
immigration relates to becoming an Australian and the need to work on multiculturalism.
The author emphasizes on three main arguments to demonstrate the position. Firstly,
he focused on the question of who actually is an Australian. He states that Australians are not
referred to the Whites. One of the factors that led to this kind of belief is the current
Australian flag, which shows that Australia must have a connection with Great Britain
(Bastian, 2012). This is true only for white European but the Italian, Greek and the refugees;
they are not identified with Britain but as Australians. Even though Australia has passed
many barriers, it managed to incorporate ethnicity, culture, and ideologically significant
groups under ‘Australian’. Secondly, he stated how civilization and immigration reflects on
the process of becoming Australian. The tendency to identify different cultural identities is
not exceptional to immigrants or Italians only. One needs only to visit London to know the
Australian culture in all its glory or to meet the ex-patriot employees of Australia in Dubai or
Malaysia. When an individual leaves his country, he realizes the importance of his self-
identity and the foundation of values and traditions. A failure group of immigrants would not
leave Australia where people love to eat shop and visit but would reduce its rich diverse
culture. Thirdly, the author stated the need of creating a functioning multiculturalism.
Immigration in a society can lead to culture conflicts and separatism. One of the factors that
lead to differences is the failure of developing relationships with the members. When an
individual already holds prejudice against each other, it is difficult to have a positive
interaction. By reducing, the negative impacts will not be sufficient as the nature of group