Culture in Oz
“There was a time in the 1990s when I feared that multiculturalism was heading to a stage where the concept of Australia would cease to exist. So concerned were we about our ethnic or cultural backgrounds, we would forget what we were today and Australia would be seen less as a nation than as just a place where people lived, but did not call home,” he said.
James Jupp, the director of the Center for Immigration and Multicultural Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, does not believe the name change will have a significant policy effect, but he says it does send a message.
“The message of multiculturalism is that both sides have to adjust,” he said. “The new message is that this is a liberal, democratic, English-speaking society which has been well established and it is up to people who come from other cultures to adjust their behavior accordingly.” herald-tribune
And this will be happening in Canada when??
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