The CEO of Reconciliation Australia reminds us that reconciliation is not a “spectator sport” and that all of us need to ...
Australians live in the world, and it’s time our conception of the nation came to reflect that — this would mean overcoming our long resistance to cosmopolitanism, in which an orientation to the wider ...
Dictionaries lump "multi-" words together as "many-." Not helpful. But the usual meaning of "multicultural" and a bit of common sense easily sort things out for us. "Multiculturalism" contends that ...
A recently completed doctoral thesis on multicultural education posits that immigrants and Finns are seen as opposites. , MA (Education), focuses in her study on Finnish multicultural education in the ...
Everyone's up in arms about multiculturalism all of a sudden. But what actually is it? British Prime Minister David Cameron seems to think it's when a government takes a "whatever" attitude toward its ...
Diversity, pluralism, multiculturalism. We’re inundated in this election year by the continual thrumming that we should have even more (or, for others, less) such terms. And what we have already is ...
In his nearly forgotten book Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot observed that “One people in isolation is not aware of having a ‘culture’ at all.” Until I was 12, I lived in western ...
Numerous heads of state including Nicolas Sarkozy (France), Angela Merkel (Germany), and David Cameron (UK) have recently proclaimed that multiculturalism has been an utter failure (see here). Many ...
The slogan for the federal government’s newly released multicultural statement – United, Strong, Successful – sounds somewhat like a soundbite from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. It starts with ...
Everyone's up in arms about multiculturalism all of a sudden. But what actually is it? British Prime Minister David Cameron seems to think it's when a government takes a "whatever" attitude toward its ...