Immigrants and Australian Values: A Multiculturalist Perspective

This essay provides a comprehensive analysis of how immigrants are expected to conform to Australian values within a multiculturalist framework. It explores the complexities of integration, the role of cultural diversity, and the challenges faced by immigrants in adapting to Australian society. The essay examines the historical context of multiculturalism in Australia, the evolving policies related to immigration, and the expectations placed on immigrants to embrace Australian laws, values, and societal norms. It highlights the importance of multiculturalism in fostering a harmonious society and the need for immigrants to understand and respect Australian culture, including its laws, government, and the use of English. The essay also discusses the criticisms of multiculturalism, the need for continuous review and updates in the context of changing societal dynamics, and the responsibilities of immigrants in contributing to Australian society. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of equity policies that favor both immigrants and the Australian government to ensure full participation in Australian life and the benefits of multiculturalism in an international setting. The essay draws upon various academic sources to support its arguments and provides a well-rounded perspective on the topic.

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Introduction
Australia remains to be a country with culturally diverse customer beliefs. Its indigenous
persons have continued to have the rich variety of cultures, customs, as well as languages. Just
like numerous European nations of immigration, Australia is currently experiencing the moral
panic concerning the immigration together with diversity in ethnic and religious beliefs
(Heywood, 2012). Throughout Australia, the views concerning how immigrants accommodate
difference remain under challenge. In many parts of the country, there appears to be the retreat
from multiculturalism in public together with policy discourses. There seems also retreat from
the shift to the demands for integration of immigrants into dominant values, culture, as well as
societal behavior (Korea, 2017). Besides, there is the pervasive view that pluralist or approaches
of multicultural perspectives to immigrants’ inclusion into Australian society have failed and that
the large section of the concern lies within the operations of the immigrants. Immigrants have the
mandate of pledging allegiance to Aussie laws along with values. From the book by Heywood,
(2012), multiculturalism remains to focus on ideologies such as socialism, democracy,
nationalism, anarchism, conservatism, and anarchism. It outlines that immigrants have to
promise to share Australian values under proposed new regulations introduced by the Australian
constitution. Besides, Australian society expects that the immigrants to demonstrate their
allegiance to the nation and commitment to live by Australia laws and values and be ready to
integrate into and becoming contributing members of the Australian society (Mughal, 2015). The
Australian authority is still struggling to introduce controversial changes to its citizenship
requirements. Therefore, the principal motive of this research work is to address how immigrants
must conform to Australian values in multiculturalist perspective.

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Brief description of multiculturalism as a theory
Multiculturalism remains to be one of the most controversial ideas that apply to
contemporary politics. In the book by Heywood (2012), he examines some of the leading
responses to multiculturalism both critical and supportive found in the work of contemporary
political theorists. Immigration alludes to involve not only the movement of individuals but also
the movement. Immigration comes along with the foundations of their cultural identity such as
religion, traditions, societal patterns, and traditional structures among other issues. The combined
goodwill among immigrants remains to be a crucial factor in the evolution of harmonious of
multicultural Australian society that forms the significant achievement of democracy in the
country.
How Immigrants must comply with Australian values in Multiculturalist perspective
The alien must meet the multiculturalism prospects within Australia. For an extended
period, multiculturalism in Australia has been the contested policy as well as the concept of its
inclusion in Australia in the early days of the 1970s (Lee, 2014). While maintaining some core
principles of immigration, federal multiculturalism policy statements have evolved in response to
the shifting issues that face Australian community. As the global immigration continues to
increase in scale along with complexity Australia, as several nations in the world community,
continues to meet the challenges of constructively engaging the policy framework. The structure
develops through the creation of the multicultural society (Bloemraad & Wright, 2014).
However, there is a need to deal with the innovative approaches on how to address the ever-
increasing complex nature of contemporary diversity in Australia. Besides, immigrants need to

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conform to Australian values because they affect the dominant way of life altered to some degree
through advanced culture.
Immigrants must conform to Australian values by focusing on multiculturalism
perspective that continues to form the firm emphasis on past policies on universal harmony. The
outlook also aids in recognizing and positively accepting the Australia values and making the
country to remain as a culturally diverse nation. Therefore, multiculturalism among the
immigrants assists in offering the self-guidelines for enhancement of societal harmony. Besides,
there are various aspects of the culture of Australia that immigrants must conform towards to
achieve and working with about multiculturalism prospect. Some of these ways of lives of
Australians consists of the laws, its common type of government, as well as English as the
primary national language used by the people (Cisneros, 2015). Therefore, the inclusion along
with immigrant participation along with their kids has to choose between ideas of retaining a
range of their customs and cultural traditions some of which might be adaptable to other people
that exist in Australia. Furthermore, the inclusion of immigrants together with their descendants
in Australian life must occur naturally without any application of external force such as conflicts
among communities as this will form the appropriate approach to conform to Australian values.
The inclusion must be within the bounds of democratic as well as legal frameworks of Australian
laws (Stecyk, 2017). Therefore, all individuals who are Australian-born or immigrants must be
free to have the right to choose the customs that he or she needs to retain and the ones to adopt
for their wellbeing in the country. The power of choice on what to do is essential in ensuring that
immigrants do not break the set laws and regulations by the Australian authorities.

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Other communities within Australia have resorted to the use of multiculturalism
perspectives as scapegoats. The purpose of multiculturalism has led to growth in criticism that
consists of the emergence of political groups that have sought to exploit society concern by
advocating thinly veiled policies of bigotry together with the division. Besides, most people
believe that multicultural perspectives have aided in serving the country excellently while
contributing to the fairer and more just community. There is a need for every immigrant to focus
on the principles of multicultural perspectives (Hosseini & Saha, 2017). These ideas help in
improving the cultural diversity among the people, thus leading to developing the values of
Australia. The prospect allows the immigrants to remain cohesive as well as focus on
maintaining a harmonious society. The ideas of concentrating of such diversities by immigrants
in conforming to Australian values have contributed importantly to its economic, societal, and
cultural sophistication (McGrane, 2011). However, like all sections of the public policy, the
focus on multicultural perspectives by immigrants in Australia need to have a continuous review
and update in the context of the alteration in the Australian society along with immigrants
relations with the global community.
Multiculturalism perspective among immigrants
From the book by Heywood, (2012), there is a need by every immigrant and Australian
council to support the advanced ideas that are the essential measure that the civilization judges
the treatment by the government to minorities. These compensations take place because it is the
right of every country and its people to do and because of the values of justice, as well as equity
of benefits, are embeddable in democratic principles of a nation. Therefore, immigrants have the
responsibilities of contributing to Australian society often in the case of rising issues of

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difficulties (Heywood, 2012). Moreover, various sets of multicultural policies along with plans
have been inactive over the last twenty-five years. The Australian social, legal, together with the
infrastructure of administrative settings has adjusted to focus on the requirements and needs as
well as the potential of the increasingly diverse society (Figgou, 2017). The continual social
harmony among the immigrants remains to be another essential approach that helps in
conforming to the Australian values. The development of multiculturalism perspective owes
much to the combined efforts of harmony.
The focus on multicultural perspective by the immigrant is essential in conforming to
Australian values. The immigrants can use these policies to deliver significant benefits to the
country by ensuring that their justice and equity for all people within the Australia. The
immigrant can focus on Australian multiculturalism to make sure that they can recognize as well
as celebrate the cultural diversity of the nation (Ndukwe, 2015). Besides, through
multiculturalism perspective, immigrants can be able to accept as well as respect the fundamental
rights of Australians while they express and share their heritage way of life within the overriding
commitment to Australia along with the fundamental structures together with values of
democracy of Australia. Besides, consideration of multicultural perspective by immigrants
ensures that they achieve success through all of its members that cooperate with the shared
vision of a country (Governance must: Comply with the Duty of Loyalty, 2016). There is a need
for immigrants to make Australian administrative, financial, and joint infrastructure more
responsive to the rights, needs, obligations, along with requirements of Australian culturally
diverse population. The strict adherence to mission and vision of multiculturally perspective by
immigrants allows them to conform well to the values of Australia.

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Conclusion
The need to access and formation of equity policies that favor both immigrants and the
Australian government is an instrument in ensuring that immigrants meet the values of the
country form diverse linguistic and cultural background. Proper conformation to Australian
values allows the immigrants to have the chance of full participation in Australian political,
economic, collective, and cultural life. The focus on Australian multiculturalism perspectives by
immigrants in values of equity as well as liberty makes it relevant in international settings. Some
values that are at the center of any democratic society, but some of the benefits by immigrants
may have entrenched the structures of privilege or racial, and religion sectors. The immigrants
have a more significant challenge of building the ideas to conform to the Australian values. The
challenge result on the need to nurture and cherish the ideal elements of the past, evolve
heritages, and to apply the changes as the base for incorporating the advanced emerging identity
that results to equal regard along with relevance for every person in Australia. In creating ideas
by immigrants to conform to Australian values, there is a need by the authorities to ensure that
there is the encouragement of cultural diversity in its full sense that is hard to achieve at the
expenses of the shared values.

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