Essay: The Impact of Racism on Australian Society and its Development

This essay provides an overview of racism in Australia, addressing its multifaceted nature and impact on various aspects of society. The essay begins by defining racism and its detrimental effects on national development. It then delves into specific forms of discrimination, including educational racism, where disparities in educational opportunities and treatment between indigenous and non-indigenous students are highlighted. Medical and hospitality racism are also examined, showcasing how access to services and treatment is affected by racial biases. The essay discusses the historical context of racism in Australia, focusing on the experiences of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. The essay provides examples of racism in education, medical facilities, shopping, sports and workplaces. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of combating racism to foster national growth and development and promoting equal rights for all citizens. The references include books and journals that support the arguments made in the essay.

ESSAY ON RACISM IN
AUSTRALIA

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK...............................................................................................................................................1
Educational Racism.....................................................................................................................1
Medical and Hospitality Racism ................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTION
Racism refers to the process of creating and developing differences between two persons
in terms of providing medical, sports and education facilities to them. The racism is deteriorating
the economic flow of goods and services because of difference created by people of country.
Australia is known as multicultural nation as many people came from different countries based
on racial and ethical standards of the diversified environment. National discrimination created
many diversified problems over the past few tears. The diversification has created many
problems that pertains in many parts of country like lifestyle, education systems, and hospitality
services. These problems are created in the country by racism which harms the national growth
and development .
TASK
Racism in Australia is considered to be the major threat of many states. The majority of
people living comprise of many Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders who lived there for more
than 40,000 years and they occupied large amount of resources of the country. The population
was more at the time of its European content but they had to suffer a lot in developing
themselves against racism by the introduction of Britain's Land Colony forced them to change
their originality and develop the systems that were being followed by the Britishers. The people
suffered a heavy loss on their standards of living, lifestyle and educational practices being
adopted in order to generate major gap between blacks and whites (Brett. 2011)The difference
between blacks and whites was based on providing various types of services. As whites were
considered superior in terms of generating and developing economy in relation to blacks.
Because blacks were no longer treated superior they are forced to leave such facilities which are
harmful for whites. In Australia there are many types of Racisms which needs to be considered.
Educational Racism
Educational qualifications in Australia created major racial discrimination that generated
a major gap between blacks and whites. The whites were so superior then blacks that they forced
to experience racial discrimination during their educational qualifications. (Kleinman,.
2011)Major issue which crated trouble was the attendance of the students as refugee students
were not supposed to take more than 7 % of absent leaves while the non indigenous students can
take leaves up to 16% as per the rules of the school and educational authorities. Educational
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racism can be directly connected by the way of generating harassment, abuse, etc. The parents if
feel that their children are being harassed in the schools then they can file a complaint against
school individual teachers, or the education system which are the major key players of
indiscrimination development. The attitude of school students among different students are also
very different. This is because of the fact that every student who is a victim of racial
discrimination is tortured abruptly and the teachers and other classmates also touchers them .
Medical and Hospitality Racism
Medical and Hospital services catered the major part of developing racism in Australia. It
is due to the fact that the medical facilities offered to the blacks were so low that they created
trouble on the part of loss of habitual indications in the economy. The medical facilities that
whites were using slightly indiscriminate blacks because of the behaviour of doctors towards the
patients (Kleinman. 2011.) The medical services are considered essential for each and every
individual but through this racism the blacks feel very upset on being boycotted form the
treatment of all the services which they require and need the most. Although the basic facilities
are very costly for blacks because of lack of purchasing power in their hands. Among the
Australians there are many different situations that developed racism in the nation.
 Shopping:- A person shops to purchase necessary and utility products and
services A person who wants to buy these products and services should use their
basic card for shopping. It is discrimination on the part of non generation of basic
cards for black people. Because black people were boycotted from being provided
all the necessary and basic things which they require the most.
 Sports:- Racism is developing now a days in sports because every individual who
wants to play sports should be white in colour no black person is allowed.
Majority of people who were in the departments of sports didn't allowed blacks
because of the fact that sporting prowess the highest status of young men and
boys of Australia.
 Work place:-Racism takes place in work place because of the skin colour and
other major reasons. The work place is being affected in the manner that every
individual who is black in skin colour is provided lower position in the
organization where as whites were provided higher position.
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Examples that shows Different Types of Racism in Australia Till present scenario
In today's scenario racial discrimination in Australia has emerged very vastly and it has
been indicated that now every citizen who is being migrating from different countries is facing
racism in different aspects. The various examples shows that racism in Australia has been very
devastating in terms of developing economic indications in the country.
 Rebecca Kay being a Muslim has faced a lot of racial discrimination because of their
culture that pertains their way of worshipping God form that of other religions. And the
citizens didn't liked it because there are many cultural differences between Muslims and
Non Muslims..
 Oliver Maboreke who is a Black communist feels that the people of Australia treat him as
refugee because of the fact that many people who have been migrating to the country and
are refugees and they have harmed the nation in the past as well.
 Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews who is an aboriginal was the victim of educational racism
because of the fact that many universities and institutions have always treated him and
similar type of students in the negative sense that can be harmful for other citizens of the
nation.
The racism in Australia is very highly developing in terms of creating blacks and whites the
major gap. This gap is now a days widening up due to the fact that every individual who is
developing and growing is troubling the standards set for blacks . The standards can be the
development of organizations in which whites work, the relations of whites and blacks and the
behaviours that persist between them.
CONCLUSION
Finally we can conclude as per above report that racism is not beneficial for Australia as
it creates lot of economic barriers that can be loss of employment opportunities in the nation.
Through the national and international support for growth and development every person who
migrates to the country for job, education, medical services should not be discriminated because
of the fact that every citizen has equal right to be benefited by all the services. When any
individual is being discriminated by usage of these services it shows the national and personal
growth and development of nation and citizens. Every individual must be benefited by all r the
type of services whether they are small or big, whether they are economically beneficial for the
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citizens . And the development of nation depends on the personal growth and development of
citizens.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Durey, A., 2010. Reducing racism in Aboriginal health care in Australia: where does cultural
education fit?.Australian Journal of Public Health. 34(s1), pp.S87-S92.
Brett, J., 2011. Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia (Vol. 42). Black
Inc..
Brown, G., 2011. Emotional geographies of young people's aspirations for adult life. Children's
Geographies, 9(1). pp.7-22.
Colic-Peisker, V. and Farquharson, K., 2011. Introduction: A new era in Australian
multiculturalism? The need for critical interrogation. Journal of intercultural studies,
32(6). pp.579-586.
Coates, H. and Goedegebuure, L., 2012. Recasting the academic workforce: Why the
attractiveness of the academic profession needs to be increased and eight possible
strategies for how to go about this from an Australian perspective. Higher Education,
64(6). pp.875-889.
Kleinman, D.L. et .al 2011. Engaging citizens: The high cost of citizen participation in high
technology. Public understanding of science, 20(2). pp.221-240.
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