Australia is often spoken of as a multi-cultural country. In fact Australians pride themselves on the country's diversity. Lattes, a variety of foods readily available, etc. etc. John Howard dislikes the term multi-culturalism and shies away from using it.
Whatever it means, in its broadest sense, Australia has seen an influx of immigrants resulting in something in the region of 43% of the population being either foreign- born or first generation foreign-born. As against that just reflect on the fact that with an aboriginal community - said to be the oldest in the world - here long before the white man we haven't adopted one of that culture's foods as that of Australia - but rather the pizza!
A rather revealing article in todays The Independent details the UK experience of that country's race laws after 40 years. It would be interesting to see how this all compares with Australia.
Whatever it means, in its broadest sense, Australia has seen an influx of immigrants resulting in something in the region of 43% of the population being either foreign- born or first generation foreign-born. As against that just reflect on the fact that with an aboriginal community - said to be the oldest in the world - here long before the white man we haven't adopted one of that culture's foods as that of Australia - but rather the pizza!
A rather revealing article in todays The Independent details the UK experience of that country's race laws after 40 years. It would be interesting to see how this all compares with Australia.
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