The Impact of Globalization and Multiculturalism on Australian Culture

This sociology essay examines the profound impact of globalization and multiculturalism on Australian culture. It explores the cultural changes observed in Australia, including shifts in dialect, values, and social norms, highlighting the influence of Western culture and the rise of multiculturalism. The essay assesses both the positive and negative consequences of these changes, such as increased achievement orientation and potential for cultural clashes. Drawing on various scholarly sources, the study provides a comprehensive analysis of how globalization has reshaped Australian society and its cultural landscape, including discussions on religious diversity and the adoption of new lifestyles. The essay concludes by summarizing the significant transformations and the complex outcomes of globalization and multiculturalism on Australia.

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Globalization and Multiculturalism
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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.

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Multiculturalism has also made the Australian much more achievement oriented with having a
worldview of competition in respect to business, education, sports and many other aspects.
While considering the culture of Vancouver, it can be found that multiculturalism has
changed the social values and norms of the people. The people of this country most imitate the
standard lifestyle of the tourists coming for spending their vacation (Ng & Metz, 2015).
Likewise, Australians are also adopting the standard lifestyle and values of foreign people
residing in Australia. On the other hand, globalization and multiculturalism has also changed the
religion diversity of Canada. Therefore, there is an increasing difference between the beliefs and
values of the people in Canada. The same situation can also be found in Australia, where
multicultural has led to religion, which often led to clash among different religious people.
Multiculturalism has both positive and negative impact on the Australia. Moreover,
Walsh, (2014) opined that the Australians are adopting sociological imagination in which
Australians think themselves away from their familiar routines of everyday life. In this way, they
are adopting the standard lifestyle of the migrant people. It is actually minimizing the social
stratification of the country and improving overall standard of the society. On the other hand,
Ang, (2014) opined that changing culture has made the Australians more achievement oriented,
which has enhanced their potentiality of success in every aspect of life. Furthermore, Walsh,
(2014) argued that Australians have actually loosen their traditional values and ethics with
cultural changes due to globalization. On the other hand, religion diversity from cultural change
often leads to religion and cultural clashes among the people in Australia.

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Conclusion
While concluding the study, it can be found that globalization and multiculturalism have
changed the social and cultural value of Australia. Moreover, Australians are now much more
liberal in their life having impact of multiculturalism. The impact of western culture has also
made the Australians much more achievement oriented, which can facilitate them in getting
success in every aspect of their life. However, it can often lead to religion and cultural clashes
among various people having different religion and culture.

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References
Ang, I., 2014. Beyond Chinese groupism: Chinese Australians between assimilation,
multiculturalism and diaspora. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(7), pp.1184-1196.
Hong, Y. Y., & Cheon, B. K. (2017). How Does Culture Matter in the Face of
Globalization?. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(5), 810-823.
Ng, E. S., & Metz, I. (2015). Multiculturalism as a strategy for national competitiveness: The
case for Canada and Australia. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(2), 253-266.
Walsh, J. P. (2014). The marketization of multiculturalism: Neoliberal restructuring and cultural
difference in Australia. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(2), 280-301.