week 4
For this week’s blog I wish to explore the combination of ideologies from my last blog post and Jacquie’s lecture this week where she talked about the different ethnic minorities in Sydney. It was explained to us how we need to understand that valuing diversity is a resource to Australia’s cultural and ultimately economical expansion, which I believe is completely factual.
The more the merrier, as the saying goes.
Australia has become a host to a variety of cultures, each becoming more dominant in certain districts of Australia’s cities. Koreans for example have established their own communal hubs in some of Australia’s major cities, e.g. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. With them they brought their culture and their food which can only contribute to expanding Australia’s horizons. Coming in as early as the 1970s, they were known to be situated in Sydney’s Canterbury and Bankstown area, now they’ve expanded as far as inner Sydney, northern suburbs, hills district and north shore. Where in each area, they’ve developed their own line of businesses. You can expect many restaurants, tailors, retail stores even medical practices in some of these Korean dominant neighborhoods.
It was in Jacquie’s lecture where “entrepreneurship and innovation” become advantages in order to nourish the Australian economy. By expanding more foreign businesses, they also introduce more labour, more trades and more academics that will ultimately revitalize Australia on a global international scale. It would provide Australia with a refreshed and new appreciation to the different cultures that arrive here.
Despite the difference in culture and language which depicts a vast space between foreigners and natives, it is by 1.”respecting differences that creates a platform for sustainable growth in Australia’s economic and cultural growth”.
2. “worldliness – it situates us in a condition of equality and diversity of ideologies and emotions”
1. Jacquie’s lecture week 2.
2. Jacquie’s lecture week 3.
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