Reflecting on Australia's National Culture

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Cultural studies
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Reflect on whether or not you think Australia has a national culture?
National culture set of norms, behaviour, belief, as well as customers that are real within the
inhabitants of a sovereign country. I think that Australia still has somewhere a national culture as
people of the country follow the norms and beliefs of their ancients, which is reflected in their
culture. The culture of Australia is majorly a western culture that is majorly derived from Britain.
I found that indigenous persons of the country were custodians of the property for approximately
60,000 years before it was populated. However, in the late 18th Century, the immigrants formed
the nation a panel colony and the culture of Australia dominated by western culture due to its
panel colony many people migrate from Europe and other countries (Cultural Atlas, 2019).
I believe that the country has a national culture or not is clear from the behaviours of the people
that show the norms and beliefs that they carry. I found that people in Australia right to fair go
irrespective of the person’s background that shows that the culture of the country that they treat
each member equal. This is the reason due to which the migrants and foreigners are surprised by
Australian people behaviour as they can easily set the basis of mateship (Cultural Atlas, 2019).
The culture of the country has made the people understand the people who are migrants. I think
that most of the Australians seem to have a very implicit preference for those people seems to be
the down-to-earth as well as straightforward. This shows that their behaviour is different from
the other counties people which is possible because of the essence of the culture in the people of
Australia (Reckwitz, 2018). However, considering the increasing number of immigrants in
Australia and the rise in the influence of western culture on people will make the people shift