The Australian lifestyle
Australia is popular all around world as a liberal and democratic nation. Apart from these factors, a warm climate and exotic landscapes are some of most popular reasons that motivate people to migrate to Australia. This amazing country has so much to offer and as an immigrant, there is so much to learn.
Good quality of life: Australia provides a quality life to its residents. There are many factors which results in good quality of life like less rate of crime, proper access to healthcare, political stability, world class education system, and good infrastructure, etc.
Australian culture: The Australian culture is quite different from the culture of other countries. Given below are some insights into Australian
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However, these have changed drastically with the growth in the country's population. Similarly to some other countries in the world, Australia is a country filled with migrants. Though the native Australian culture still have a great importance in Australia, its culture and lifestyle has been greatly influenced by Asian, Greek, Middle Eastern and many other cultures.
Australian Food: The typical Australian diet is greatly influenced by the weather. The national diet normally consists of fresh, healthy and seasonal food. It includes local Australian meats and breads along with fish and organically grown vegetables.
The diversity of Australia also has a huge effect on its cuisine. The modern Australian cuisine mainly includes dishes with a blend of Asian, Mediterranean and British ingredients and techniques.
Majority of global food chains including McDonalds, Subway, KFC, Hungry Jacks are quite popular in Australia.
Australia's love for sport: Australians are known in all over the world as lovers of sport. Cricket, football and rugby are the three most prominent sports in which Australians
Besides the high crime rate that has been given by England. Australia also shares a similar culture with England. The people speak English with a similar axsent of England’s. People also eat a lot of the same foods that people in England eat. The type of government in Australia is also the same, except Australia has a prime minister, not a king, or
Australia is a widely diverse and unique nation. From extensive exposed spaces in boiling arid conditions to the dense urban population of the capital cities, our nation has grown into a unique and multicultural country. There are countless features that create Australian culture and identity.
“Indigenous Australian peoples are people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, who are accepted as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person in the community in which they live, or have lived” (Queensland Government, Australia, n.d). Indigenous Australians have made considerable contributions in the field of arts, media, sport, education, politics/government, and history. One of the famous Indigenous person is Evonne Fay Goolagong-Cawley, who has gained name and fame for Australia in the field of tennis on world level. Evonne Goolagong-Cowley’s life, opportunities, achievements and contributions and the ability to rise out of the cultural barriers gave her a unique place in Australian society.
Culture one the other hand, can be simply coined as ‘the way of life’, language and traditions that are common amongst a group of people (Meriam-Webster 2003). The Australian identity and culture is something that is unique and exclusive to its people, word like ‘barby’, ‘g’day mate’ and ‘tinnies’ immediately refers to Australia.
Australian indigenous culture is the world’s oldest surviving culture, dating back sixty-thousand years. Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders have been represented in a myriad of ways through various channels such as poetry, articles, and images, in both fiction and non-fiction. Over the years, they have been portrayed as inferior, oppressed, isolated, principled and admirable. Three such texts that portray them in these ways are poems Circles and Squares and Grade One Primary by Ali Cobby Eckermann, James Packer slams booing; joins three cheers for footballer and the accompanying visual text and Heywire article Family is the most important thing to an islander by Richard Barba. Even though the texts are different as ….. is/are …., while
• Australian society values respect for the freedom and dignity of the individual, freedom of religion, commitment to the rule of law, Parliamentary democracy, equality of men and women and a spirit of egalitarianism that embraces mutual respect, tolerance, fair play and compassion for those in need and pursuit of the public good
Ever since the 1970s, Australia has become a multicultural nation. Australia’s multiculturalism is a way to explain the variety of ethnic backgrounds within the Australian people. “It implies that there are many ways of being Australian, not just one ‘Australian way of life’” (Carter 333). Multiculturalism has majorly changed the way that people view Australian history and identity.
Australia is a unique country, and it has a long history of population growth due to
One can think that it is an impossible task to embody the Australianness in one image only such as a person, a symbol or an idea. It may be easy to assume that Australia as a whole country is trying hard to find its true self but on second thought, this diversity in culture has made Australian really Australian. The definition of Australian also known as the Australianness will still be an interesting issue to solve in the future.
There can be no gainsaying, as to the fact that Australia is not only a choice destination for many, but also houses some of the most beautiful cities in the world (Bastian, 2012). As a matter of fact, Bastian (2012) continues to state that this change is strongly attributed to immigration, which continues to foster strong cultural and economic growth in Australia. As Australia continues to open its borders to an increasingly diverse population, Australians themselves continue to open their minds to accommodate diversity in the form of new lifestyles, foods, traditions, values, beliefs and so forth (Bastian, 2012). According to Henry & Kurzak (2013), the 2011 census show that 26% of Australians were born abroad and 20% have either one or both
The indigenous people of Australia, called the Aborigines, are the oldest culture found on Earth. Studies show that the Aboriginal genome can be traced back seventy-five thousand years to when this community first migrated from Africa to Australia. As the oldest known continuous culture, their traditions and rituals have thrived even though the world around them has changed so drastically. In this paper I’d like to talk about the history of Aboriginal cultures in Australia, their cultural rituals and how their culture has been so heavily influenced and changed over the last few decades.
Australia demonstrates the ability to absorb and take advantage of different cultures just like the United Kingdom. In the 1950s, Australia experienced a major multicultural breakthrough. This was through the Gold Rush. A huge number of migrants and immigrants were brought together in Australia. This brought a major challenge as it led to unsettlement in the gold fields. This was a good lesson for the Australians as they learnt that people with different cultural backgrounds can stay together.
There are many countries that are suitable for living. However, some are more superior than others. There is a country in Asia which is called Kazakhstan. They have a low unemployment rate There is an island named Bahrain their peoples average life span is 76 years old. There is an Oceania country called Micronesia.
There are many different pros and cons in life. Regardless of what someone is trying to compare. It is very interesting when doing research on a new country that an individual does not know much about that particular topic. What are the most important qualities in a country that help us function as a society? They are economic growth, strong structural system with government so the people can have a leader to follow in the right path.