A. Assimilation
According to Morrissey et al (1991) written in Burnet (1998), assimilation is the achievement of invisibility by the immigrants’ through their attainment of normal Australian practices. According to Wagley and Harris written in Berndt (1964), assimilation means that a minority group loses its identity as a discreet group and merges with the dominant group. In this case, immigrants become more like local people by adopting the values, norms, foods, and culture from host countries.
From the 1940, the state government in some parts of Australia issued thousands of Certificates of Exemption. Certificates of Exemption is a document of the government’s assimilation policy which enabled the Indigenous people to have the citizenship rights, such as being allowed to vote, attend school, go into hotels, and be exempted from the restrictions of state protection laws. However, the requirements were not easy at all as applicants had to agree to abandon association with the Indigenous community, give up their traditional culture, and to break off contact with their Indigenous kinship, except their closes family. Besides, they had to carry this certificate all the time. Hence, Aboriginal people called it as the “dog tags”. The certificates also can be revoked without any rights of appeal in some states. Applicants also had to demonstrate that they stayed out of troubles, kept their houses clean and in good repair, and many other lists. Many Aboriginal people decided to apply for it, albeit they had to sacrifice many things (National Museum of Australia’s Homepage).
The picture above is the Certificate of Exemption of Mary Terzak’s (nee Woods). She was a member of the Stolen Generations. According to the National Sorry Day Comm...
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..., language, ethnicity, nationality, and race. It assures that everyone can have the same opportunity to realize their potential. There are some examples, such as Daniel Maurice, who became a Diplomat in the Foreign Service, Adrian Vatovec who is a well-known song writer in Adelaide, and Natasha Shelly, who is registered as a migration agent right who provides professional immigration advice for those who wish to relocate to Australia. These people represent that they can get the same and equal opportunity as white people in Australia.
Accommodation facilitates and respects the immigrants. The immigrants will be given some space for them to maintain their traditions and some other differentiated rights. Some of examples are the first Slovene church was built in 1968, many Slovene clubs were organized, and a Slovene language program was aired on the Australian radio.
Back to the American history, "assimilation" policy was introduced to the Native Americans during the earliest colonial times. During that time, all American Indians must either adopt the White's lifestyles or perish. With the declaration of the Dawes Act, a goal of destroying all tribal structure and their communal life were summoned. Tribal lands were divided among natives and the Westerners, leaving the natives, a land surrounded by the foreigners. With such acts, the American Indians were slowly assimilated into the White's culture and without their own people around them, they will have to communicate with the Westerners with their language instead of their indigenous languages; they ...
The Assimilation was a policy set by the government in 1937 and went to till 1964. This policy of Assimilation was set not just for Aborigines in Australia but for all foreign immigrants that were not European and white in colour. Having this policy set in place meant that Aborigines were forced to give up their heritage and adopt the culture of the British/Anglo Saxons. This law sent children away from their families to learn how to become and live like a white Australian, leaving all memories, beliefs, and traditions behind. Another major impact this had toward the Aborigines was they had no rights or freedoms and finally all culture, heritage, beliefs were left behind and made to start a new life living as a 'white fella’.
Aboriginal family life has been disrupted and forcibly changed over the last two hundred years, as a result of the many segregation and assimilation policies introduced by Australian governments. Often a combination of the two was employed. The policy of segregation has impacted upon Aboriginal family life, for through this policy, Aboriginals were restricted and prohibited to practice their traditional culture, hence, resulting in the loss of their Indigenous identity and limiting the cultural knowledge for future Aboriginal generations. The segregation policy also achieved in disfiguring the roles of family members, primarily the male's role within the family. The policy of assimilation, in comparison to the segregation policies, has also affected Aboriginal family life, because through the removal of children from their Aboriginal homes they to as a result were deprived of their Indigenous identity and cultural links. However, the policy of assimilation has had far greater an impact upon Aboriginal family life, for it has not only separated families and communities, but denied the parenting and nurturing of a generation of Aboriginal peoples and has also attributed to breakdowns in relationships between the non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal parent.
Pratt’s terminology becomes more complex when introduced alongside the definitions of acculturation and assimilation. Acculturation means adopting cultural traits or social patterns of another group. Assimilation is the merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups. Delving deeper into the definition of acculturation and assimilation reveals the terms marginal and metropolitan. A marginal culture is one which its people lose importance and are not fully integrated. A metropolitan...
The final factor that I will discuss is the place of residence. Kayla lives in Glendale, California and has been in the same apartment complex since she moved to the United States. The main reason for the move to Glendale was for them to be in a good neighborhood (Kayla, pg.13). She describes the city to populated by Armenians, Koreans, Mexicans, and Caucasians. This fits the classical assimilation model because they didn’t chose to migrate to a neighborhood that was similar to their culture, instead they immersed themselves with different groups.
The assimilation policy in the mid-20th century had given equal citizenship for both aboriginals and white Australians. The policy began during the 1940s. The policy didn’t allow the Aboriginals to live there traditional ways of life and also as the policy didn’t take into account the Aboriginal culture ways of life. It was rather to make the Aboriginals become white Australian and they were expected to leave their old ways of life.
Assimilation = to take on the traits of the dominant culture; compelled though force or undertaken voluntarily to be accepted into society or simply to survive
The definition of assimilation for aboriginals, can be dated back to the 1963 statement by Aboriginal affairs ministers: The policy of assimilation means that all Aborigines and Part-Aborigines will attain the same manner of living as other Australians and live as members of a single Australian community enjoying the same rights and privileges, accepting the same responsibilities, observing the same customs and influenced by the same beliefs, hopes and loyalties as other Australians. But not only where the Aboriginals affected by this policy, but all foreign migrants were affected by this policy when it became an official policy in Australia. Anyone who came to Australia from overseas, where expected to fit in with the culture at the time, they were expected to assimilate. Aboriginals and migrants were expected to part with their traditions and adopt the ‘white’ culture. So the governments solution was to stop the policy of protecting the aboriginals, which separated the aboriginal people from white society by placing them on reserves and missions, and instead to adopt the assimilation approach. Assimilation, originated on the assumption of white superiority and black inferiority, which proposed that Aboriginal people should be allowed to “die out” through a process of natural elimination, while ‘half-castes’ were encouraged to
The assimilation policy was a policy that existed between the 1940’s and the 1970’s, and replaced that of protectionism. Its purpose was to have all persons of aboriginal blood and mixed blood living like ‘white’ Australians, this established practice of removing Aboriginal children (generally half-bloods) from their homes was to bring them up without their culture, and they were encouraged to forget their aboriginal heritage. Children were placed in institutions where they could be 'trained' to take their place in white society. During the time of assimilation Aboriginal people were to be educated for full citizenship, and have access to public education, housing and services. However, most commonly aboriginal people did not receive equal rights and opportunities, for example, their wages were usually less than that paid to the white workers and they often did not receive recognition for the roles they played in the defence of Australia and their contribution to the cattle industry. It wasn’t until the early 1960’s that expendi...
Also it is crucial that the host country offer useful programs to help immigrants in Australia.
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Assimilation is when you take new information or experiences and include them into your existing perceptions and understandings. This means that when you have new information you make sense of it from the information you already had. Accommodation is when you take new information and alter or even change the existing information you had. For example, say you have a friend who you have always known to be super nice to everyone, and one day you see her yelling and being mean to someone in the hallway. If you were to use the assimilation process, you could forgive the girls behavior, believing she might of just had a bad day. If you were to use accommodation, you might change your opinion on the girl and think maybe she isn't as nice as you thought she
This essay will focus on the implicit nature of Multiculturalism and associated sociological and cultural constructs in regards to defining Canadian culture and identity.
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The class activity was simple: draw a self-portrait. As Ms. Caldera began to look through her students' work, one stood out to her. The drawing was of a young fair-skinned, blond-hair, and blue-eyed girl. Normally this would not be a problem, but in this case it was. The girl who had drawn herself was actually quite the opposite: rich dark skin, brown hair, and brown eyes (Caldera). Considering that the United States is such a large melting pot of cultures, it is normal for children to have difficulty balancing between two cultures. Culture, is really important for a child's development because it ultimately influences their morals and values. Although it is difficult for children to balance the traditions and such of two cultures, they are recompensed with a greater knowledge about the world, and understanding of people.