Report on Globalization and Multiculturalism

Running head: SOCIOLOGY
Globalization and Multiculturalism
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1SOCIOLOGY
Introduction
Globalization leads to mixture of people from different religions and cultures, which give
rise to multiculturalism in a country. With an increasing demand of globalized business,
occupation, education, sports and tourism, people are more often inclined to communicate
among different countries, which mixes different culture in a country (Hong & Cheon, 2017).
However, globalization has huge impact on the cultural changes of a country. This study will
describe the cultural changes of Australia due to globalization. The study will also assess the
positive and negative impact of cultural changes in Australia due to globalization.
Discussion
Multiculturalism has been a characteristic of Australia for long time. Globalization at
every aspect of the country has actually led to multiculturalism in the country. Moreover, the
globalization effect is actually mixing western culture to the culture of Australia. The first and
foremost cultural changes in Australia can be seen in the dialect spoken by the Australian.
Moreover, Walsh, (2014) opined that with highly level of business interaction and educational
purpose, Australian people are being more inclined towards the dialect of western English. On
the other hand, Ng and Metz, (2015) opined that globalization has also changed the value of the
Australia with high level of multiculturalism. Australians are usually conservative in their
interaction with new people. However, with the impact of globalization, the Australians are
being quite liberal and free in their interaction with new people. Furthermore, Ang, (2014)
opined that the touch of globalization has enhanced the standard of Australians’ life. Moreover,
they have started to imitate the standard lifestyle of western culture. The mixture of different
religion due to globalization has also changed the social norms and values of Australians.