Why do you think Australia is known as a multi-cultural society?
inclusion of differences into a broadly common American cultural framework. The cultural ‘mosaic” model of Canada sees differences as remaining discrete and distinct while still coexisting functionally. Australia claims to have a ‘salad bowl’ variety of multiculturalism, wherein differences remain. distinct yet adding flavor to the loosly connected whole.
The policy began to officially take shape when in 1988 John Howard initiated the ‘One Australia” debates. These led to the formulation of the National Agenda of 1989 – a forerunner of the 1995 Multicultural Statement. Kay Anderson says, “MulticulturaIism is an officially endorsed set of principles designed to manage ethnic diversity (69). Anderson continues that on the theoretical plane of policymaking, multiculturalism seems to mark a significant shift away from the closed cultural orientation that was a legacy of the racist model inherited from colonialism:
