University Essay: Integrating Indigenous Cultures into Organizations

This essay explores the critical importance of integrating indigenous cultures into organizational settings, drawing upon a newspaper article and scholarly sources. The essay begins by outlining the benefits of embracing cultural diversity, specifically focusing on how indigenous perspectives can broaden understanding and improve organizational practices. It analyzes a news article discussing an educational program that incorporates Aboriginal culture into STEM subjects, highlighting the positive impact on student engagement and understanding. The essay then argues in favor of integrating indigenous cultures, supporting this viewpoint with research that emphasizes the advantages of a diversified workforce. However, it also acknowledges the challenges and limitations, including the potential for cultural insensitivity and discrimination. The essay further discusses the disadvantages faced by indigenous people, such as disparities in welfare, justice, health, and education. The conclusion emphasizes the need for equal rights and opportunities for indigenous populations, arguing that such inclusion is essential for creating a successful and multicultural society. By providing equal rights to indigenous people, organizations can create a vibrant environment that embraces diversity and promotes social justice.

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Integrating Indigenous Cultures into Organisation
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As opined by Stewart, Moodley & Hyatt (2016), the primary importance of
integrating indigenous cultures into any working organisations is that the indigenous
cultures help every individual to understand the different types of culture and language that
prevails around the world. This gives the individuals a broader view of the world and changes
the viewpoint of they see the world. In this connection, the given essay concentrates on
proposing the study of a newspaper article that states the importance of adopting indigenous
culture into educational organisations.
Based on the article - New education program integrates Aboriginal culture into
teaching maths and science, taken from the news article ABC news, it was examined that a
group of teachers fostered in taking few indigenous students to a campfire from the classroom
in context of understanding the subjects of science, maths and technology from their view
prospect (Refer Appendix 1). It was examined with the analyses of the above news article
that the aboriginal students had a domain in these subjects because of their cultural aspects of
learning (Abc.net.au., 2018). The other students who were involved in the camp learned those
different angles of questions with the help of concepts of aerodynamics and spear making.
Moreover, the students learned about magnetism in physics through the process of
storytelling and chemistry with the idea of bush medicine. As stated in the article, the tutors
believed in teaching their students with a western form of education and not the regular way
of teaching. The same was only possible when they approached to understand the subjects
with the view prospects of the aboriginal students and help the native students learn the same.
Thus, the students were taught about the topics concerning the cultural lens of indigenous
students. This, in turn, inspired the indigenous students to their cultural ideology and took
pride in their aboriginality. In this connection, the article critically focused on stating that
understanding the cultural values of the aboriginal students is crucial to creating an
identification of the students.

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However, after the case study of the above-concerned article (Refer Appendix 1), the
research tends to support the implications of the same. As the article depicts the importance
of indigenous culture and stands for helping the same, in this connection, this paper critically
focuses on supporting the viewpoint that adaptation and integration of indigenous cultures
in any effective organisation is an integral part of making it successful. The help of the
article broadly examined that adopting a diversified lifestyle of the immigrant people helps in
improving the existing process and methodologies of a business entity. The implications of
this diversify culture would prove advantageous to create a wider understanding of the minds
of every individual of the competent organisation. They will become more open and
understandable towards the theory of accepting the aboriginal people emigrating from
different places. As opined by Sue et al., (2019, pp. 106), there lies significant importance of
educating people about both their existing culture and the culture of indigenous people. In
this context, the organisation of UNESCO analysed that the people who immigrated were
taught in the language they do not understand and thus fostered the use of required languages
in the field of teaching. This, in turn, will increase the participation rate of the people in the
learning process.
However, there are several types of research which creates a limitation to the ideology of
the acceptance of the culture of the indigenous society in contrast to the investigations that
critically proves the massive importance of the same. In this connection, as opined by
Paradies (2016, pp. 48), the native people in Australia feel forced to accept the indigenous
language and culture. They are not comfortable in recognising the different language and
culture of people from different countries. In place of this, as implied by Botfield, Newman &
Zwi (2018, pp. 405), the people in Australia are open minded and acceptable towards the
theory of accepting the immigrant people. They take a lot of pleasure to socialise around with
new individuals and a group of people that makes them understand and learn about different

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cultures and languages prevailing across the globe. As opined by Groh (2018, pp. 49), the
people of Australia are cold towards the aboriginal people and behaves rude and
discriminates them based on their caste, colour and gender. Whereas, as opined by Cheers
(2019, pp. 98), the Australians welcomes the aboriginal people with sincere regards and
contentment and treats them with kind nature. The native people of Australia interacts with
the immigrants and makes them understand their culture and vice versa. According to the
viewpoint of Campbell (2018, pp. 111), the immigrants are discriminated on the base of their
status and income abilities, education and family background, which makes them feel
bothersome to continue their stay in Australia for a more extended period. On the other hand,
as implied by Philip (2018, pp. 78), the immigrants in Australia are given equal rights to
citizenship and humanity as is given to the descendants of Australia. There is no recognisable
difference between the rights leveraged to the immigrants as well as the descendants.
Australian law believes in providing equal human rights to every citizen residing in Australia.
In the context of this viewpoint, the essay tends to analyse the disadvantages and challenges
the aboriginal people face in Australia.
As stated by Martin (2018, pp. 35), the indigenous people in Australia are deprived of
the welfare services and services to correctional justice. This results in the indigenous people
being subjected to cases of abuse and neglection. The immigrants are not given equal rights
of correction services as compared to the descendants of Australia. Researches show that
around 19% of the adults imprisoned under the law of Australia are stated to be immigrants
who are deprived of the equal rights of justice. The study also analysed with the help of the
research work done that population of children immigrating as aboriginal people are also
deprived of the juvenile justice system of Australia. A statistical data of 40% of children were
recorded as the immigrants amongst all the people who immigrated who Australia on the year
of 2017. As stated by Mazel (2018, pp. 235), the aboriginal people are even devoid of the

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health status and services. The statistical data of research recorded the life expectancy of a
descendant male in Australia is analysed to be 75.2 years on average to that of only 56.9
years of the immigrant male population. Similarly, the life expectancy of a non-immigrant
female is analysed to be 81.1 years to that of only 61.7 years of average lifespan of an
immigrant woman. This disadvantage to the health status also caused harmful effects to the
fertility rate in the women and thereby increased the mortality rate of babies. The study also
examined that the aboriginal people are deprived of equal education rights and literacy as
compared to the descendants of Australia. Studies examined that literacy rate of indigenous
people was estimated to be only 78% to that of 95% of the native people of Australia. Not
only this, the forced labour market rate per person was found to be enforced on the immigrant
people. The statistical data examined in this case was known to be 80% forced labour cases
concerning the immigrants whereas only 58% in the case of the existing citizens of Australia.
These given shreds of evidence tend to prove the hazardous situations and challenges the
aboriginal people to need to face after their immigration. In this connection, the study
concludes with the understanding of the prior need to foster equal human rights for the
aboriginal people who immigrate to Australia from different parts of the country.
To bring to a conclusion, the study examined that if the indigenous people are treated
with equal rights of citizenship in Australia as compared with its descendants, then Australia
whole as a country can turn effective and efficient in terms of multi-cultural society. This will
also bring a change in the gross GDP of the country as because the income and literacy rate
of the aboriginal people will also contribute towards the success of the society as a whole.
The need to protect the immigrants is stated as providing them with social and individual
justice. The immigrants should not feel bothersome when shifting to a different country. This
also shows the ethical approach of the country the aboriginal shift to. The paradigm of a
country depends highly on how the immigrant people are treated in their society. The way the

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immigrants are treated is the way the cultural and societal background of the country is
accepted concerning its acceptance of different cultures. A nation is known and successful by
its citizens. Therefore, there is an immediate need to make changes in the conditions of the
indigenous people residing in Australia. Providing equal rights and participation to
citizenship to every single individual living in Australia (both immigrants and descendants)
will turn Australia to be a country of the vibrant country of inter as well as multi-cultural
democracy. In this connection, more people from different parts of the country would take
pride in immigrating to Australia in order to enjoy the benefits of equal rights and endure the
ideology of multi-cultural society.

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Appendices
Appendix 1