It’s not all about English.
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Why language diversity should be celebrated in schools.
Wunderbar: same-sex marriage gets approval in Germany.
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Two new laws have grappled with ideas of diversity and the traditional family in Germany.
Many people in culturally diverse populations in Western Sydney have lived in Australia for many years, if not several generations.
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Reasoned debates on sustainable migration intake levels are important. But transport and health infrastructure shortfalls in Western Sydney won’t be solved by reactive anti-immigration attitudes.
Only one Australian suburb, Lakemba in Sydney, has a population that is more than half Muslim.
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Local neighbourhoods where Asians and Muslims form a majority are almost entirely concentrated in Australia’s two major cities – Sydney and Melbourne.
Culturally biased psychology research and the advice based on it ends up in textbooks. But it’s not appropriate for everyone.
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Most psychology research that forms the basis of parenting advice might not apply to you. So, how do you know whether to trust it?
The ABS estimates that as of December 2016, the Australian population was around 24.4 million.
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The 2016 Census reveals that Australia is becoming much more diverse – in terms of language, country of birth, Indigenous status, and religion.
Coming together in Finsbury Park.
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‘We all have harmony in this area, and these people try to divide us, but we tell them that “we will not let you do that”.’
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 3, 2012.
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Hawaii was the last state to join the Union. It didn’t happen without a lot of political dealmaking.
Should we celebrate the multicultural rainbow, or look away?
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Cultural diversity is an inescapable fact of modern life. How we should think about it is less obvious. Should we celebrate the multicultural rainbow, merge its colours into one – like a colour wheel spinning…
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As Italy confirms its ban on Sikhs carrying holy daggers, should the judiciary be deciding what our societies look like or what defines our cultural values?
Must we become passive observers to the destruction of one of Melbourne’s most culturally diverse and socially rich suburbs?
Must the aggressive, homogeneous global pattern of development take its course in Melbourne’s long-standing multicultural suburb of Footscray?
Extending a welcome to new arrivals.
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In Sheffield, a city of new arrivals, creativity is helping newcomers adjust.
The ‘White Australia’ ideology was commercialised and used to sell things from soaps and games to pineapple slices.
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While contemporary Australia is proud of its multicultural status, the White Australia policy shows this wasn’t always the case.
Malcolm Turnbull often claims Australia is the world’s most successful multicultural nation.
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The government’s multicultural statement stays fairly much in the place where rhetoric around the issue has been located for the past generation – social control and integration.
Interculturalism emphasises interaction between members of diverse communities, rather than ‘groupism’.
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A relatively new approach to diversity prioritises active and equitable interaction between various groups within local communities.
How is apartment living changing the way we get to know our increasingly diverse neighbourhoods?
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As increasing diversity and density come to characterise our cities, how can we build harmonious communities within apartment complexes?
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The great British curry crisis.
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Europe is at a crossroads in how it integrates religious minorities. But there are lessons to be learned beyond liberal secularism.
Paul Keating put the idea of a new flag, shorn of any traces of the Union Jack, on the political agenda.
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By the end of 1992, Paul Keating had done more than anyone to place on the political agenda issues of national identity that had been either dead or dormant for years.
How British are you?
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A new report has suggested migrants should be required to pledge allegiance to British values on arrival in the UK.