A. As an educator it is important that we encourage all the children to explore and value different cultures. The aim is to create an environment where their beliefs and values are respected as this helps children and families feel welcomed in a safe and supported environment. It’s important to discuss differences rather than pretending they do not exist. Educators need to role model the appropriate attitude when it comes to children with different cultural backgrounds as this can nurture a sense of belonging in all children.…
Racism in Australia in the 21st Century. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the original inhabitant of Australia. According to the recent Australian articles on racism, White Australian people who are the dominant people in Australia have been favored by the government in many ways. Discrimination of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Slanders by the White Australians are of different forms. Institutional racism is one form of racism that is evident in Australia.…
Racism has turned our society into one full of hate and discrimination based of skin color and cultural beliefs. Unfortunately, discrimination has done more than just separate individuals socially it has also divided them into high and low economic classes. We have created a society in which people who are born into lower classes are unable to climb the social ladder and reach an elite economic status. Our society has made it almost impossible for those who are not in power to ever reach such a position. We have created a society in which those who are suffering will continue to suffer and be looked at as a having no value or ability to contribute to the success of the economy and structure of society.…
Everyone is racist. Primarily, the idea of being ‘colorblind’ was the revolutionary solution to “racism”. If you do not take into account one’s race, you will be perfectly able to treat them like a “normal human being”. This arrangement was prominent in the life of Huffpost.com writer Jason Halstead.…
Australia is classed as a multicultural society consisting of people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. After World War Two there was an influx of Greek and Italian people settling in Australia. The end of the Vietnam War saw an increase in the population by displaced Vietnamese people. In recent times, displaced persons arriving and settling in Australia are from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and African nations including Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Each of these population groups brings their own cultural and linguistic attributes to Australia.…
As a country we should be addressing our culture and prejudice against our indigenous Australians. Picture this. You are an indigenous Australian.…
With the recent election, universities have been facing an increase in bias and discriminatory attitudes, making the event timely. There has been an increasing variety of prejudicial and discriminatory acts against students based on their cultural backgrounds and social identities. These comments stem from judging others’ cultures based off of one’s own values, social groups or ethnocentrism (Greitemeyer, 2016). Those who don’t understand other people’s cultures often decide that it is unorthodox and doesn’t fit within their standards. They may not make the time to understand where the another person is coming from and it “partitions the social world into us and them” (Kam & Kinder, 2016).…
Racism has become extremely prevalent in Australia’s modern-day society. We are able to say this because there is an astounding amount of evidence to support this. Firstly, Mungo Man and Woman verify that there was Aboriginal life in Australia over 60,000 years ago, found by using carbon dating technology. This means that we can understand that they had a culture and society of their own before the Europeans arrived and abolished it.…
Why is racism so deeply rooted among American history? Why is something as simple as skin color such subject to prejudice and discrimination in today’s society? The United States of America is built off of cruel acts of slavery and racism. So many white Americans did not realize that the acts they performed were horribly wrong and inhumane. They excused themselves simply because darker skin meant that that person was also inferior.…
Despite living in a time of formal equality, Indigenous Australian youth still face many challenges growing up in contemporary Australian society. This essay examines the challenges Indigenous youth face growing up and the main cultural influences. Specifically exploring the ways in which Indigenous youth today are interdependent to both white culture and indigenous culture. Also including reasoning behind continuous marginalization and stereotyping of Indigenous youth while growing up in this day and age. Examples of Indigenous youth from the film ‘Yolngu Boy’ are used to support this topic.…
Is Australia a fundamentally racist country at its core? this divulging deliberation has been at the forefront of Australian civil rights for decades. With Australia being first established by a association of convicts, delinquents and guards to hold it all together, it is not inconceivable nor insurmountable for some of the key conjectures of the prisoners to have been carried down hereditary to todays “contemporary society. However the true catalyst for Australian’s non amalgamate views on races stem from the very fabric of our society, the media. Some philosophy’s argue that media is more influential then that of even the government.…
In Germany, a mandatory part of the school curriculum is dedicated to educating children on the Holocaust. Students learn, and acknowledge that they come from that past of genocide. It is not watered down; people do not shy away from the topic because "that was the past". In the United States, the history of slavery is taught to a minimum.…
M1: describe how practitioners should apply values of care in a health and social care service. Introduction Maintaining confidentiality Health and social care setting Confidentiality is keeping a confidence between the client and the practitioner which is an important part of good health care service.…
The country of Australia was built on racism. This land was taken and those who first came here, such as Matthew Flinders and James Cook. They took the land away from the indigenous people of Australia and killed them off with no remorse. They looked at them as if they weren’t even human, as if they weren’t even worth keeping alive, and yet those same very people end up being revolutionary names in Australian History and even having universities named after them. Even after the complete settlement of Australia, we saw immense amounts of racism coming from the government.…
An educator’s beliefs and values stem from their cultural identity which is a sociocultural perspective gained over a lifetime of social and cultural experience. These predetermined values surrounding gender, sexuality, social economic status (SES) and cultural diversity, influence the way the curriculum is enacted commencing from birth within the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) until Year 12 via the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). An educator that considers the colour blue as masculine and pink as feminine, may unintentionally hand out pink stickers to girls, reinforcing the gender stereotype by way of the hidden curriculum “what children learn without teachers realising it” (Blaise & Nuttall, 2011,…