Introduction to Government and Politics for Multiculturalism

Question: Discuss about theIntroduction to Government and Politics for Multiculturalism. Answer: Multiculturalism to citizenship in Australian politics According to Metz, Australia is considered to be as that country where an ugly discrimination has been rising. Political leaders were not given much attention in the interest of good sense (Ng and Metz 2015). Australia have been shifting away from multiculturalism to citizenship in the era of politics. People of Australia have embraced life in the new multiethnic way but the constituency of the situation has grown steadily. The Australian theory of multiculturalism had been challenged as a policy and as well as a conceptual framework. Australia draws on the media commentary along with the work of specific and well-known researchers Thus, the values of the Australians and citizens gave their opinion on the existing anxieties about the portions of the population of Australia. The essay concludes stating how this country have shifted away to multiculturalism. Multiculturalism was a theory and concept of how to reply to the rising ethnocultural diversity of the society of Australia. It had resulted in the mass immigration over the last few decades and had therefore abandoned the racially restricted policies of immigration. The term multiculturalism refers to a number of policies and cultural diversities that coherent ideals of the society. This concept has had plenty of goals over the years, which included the recognition of identities and integration of migrants. However, this concept has taken place in Australia and has criticized it as a diverse policy. The Government of Australia have determined these under the policies of multicultural that play a vital role in the process of settling the immigrants. This theory explained this as the way for settling the migrants, welfare and social-cultural policy in Australia (Bloemraad 2015). This Government had established a vast variety of multiculturalist ideas, policies and concepts into the ad visory systems. The Minister had determined these policies and rules for providing a reform agenda to address the welfare problems (Peucker, Roose and Akbarzadeh 2014). The acceptance of the nature and kind of the multicultural Australian Society, it can be implied that the government had determined the values in of the immigrants as well as the existing citizens of the country (Meer and Modood 2016). The report that was created globally stated and concluded that all the members of the society must be provided with equal opportunities to realize the full potential and they should also have free access to the services and programs (Pruitt 2016). Secondly, every individual must be able to balance his or her respected kind of culture, which did not have any kind of demerit. It helps in encouraging and understanding other cultures. Thirdly, the programs and services that are available to the entire community of the country should fulfill the needs of the migrants. Proper and special pro grams and services must be present for ensuring the equality. Lastly, proper programs and services were designed in full session with the clients involved and they should be helpful. The Government agreed upon these policies and all the citizens were informed about it. The Australian Muslims were supported and they were made to be more integrated and connected with the other citizens present in the community or the country. In terms of employment, jobs, education, activities it is regarded as a significant method of prohibiting violence causing against Australia (Tan 2017). This work began a decade back in 2007 where Markus had polled for more than 40,000 people to find what everyone thinks about the Australia and its future. His work was to move around the country by briefing politicians, commentators and bureaucrats before forming the each new report. He was cautious about and against both despair and optimism. The swings of opinion were not considered to be dangerous as its been recognized here. However, the present report states that maximum number of Australians declines the notion of selecting immigrants by race (Blair 2015). Majority people of the country have faith in the fact that multiculturalism and believe that it is good for the country. There are approximately 74% of individuals who had declined to choose immigrants based on the religion. The number of migrants Australia takes every year is either considered to be too low or perfect. The majority support of mass immigration is remarkable as it helps the country. This is because of the glob al financial crisis especially and the political parties involved everywhere had demanded the governments of Australia to not allow the foreigners. Marcus had also observed that the concept of Brexit and President Trump of the United States had rode the fear to victory (Moran 2017). The numbers of immigration did not move much. It was used as a method or measure for making the changes in Australia. However, Scanlon had done his survey for the last one decade and have put effort in making the changes. There are people who were held out to be hostile to Islam. Plenty of Australians were rising by being unaffected and falling fears of terrorism (Levey 2017). Therefore, in such a situation, there is an alert possibility that in such a sensitive territory, individuals give response to the political leaders. The number of individuals who got disturbed by the Muslims was not a greater number. As a society, Australia was doing well. They were under the pressure and were also coping up with the challenges (Hbert 2016). Many have been through the negative effect of immigration. However, adapting multiculturalism is not considered to be an easy task by the existing members of the country. People of the country wanted a resource especially for the people who wanted to work for the constituency and the size. There was a collapse of belief in the government of Australia. Hence, it does not leave any traditional embankment against the panic of race (Ng and Metz 2015). In the year of 2015, as per the Scanlon survey, they found the condition to be worse for Australias African community. Maximum number of individuals have reported of being the targets of abuse or worse as compared to the previous year. This was a contradictory statement to the concept of multiculturalism. This was not due to the reason that everyone all across the population is associating themselves in the process of discrimination. Although there have been consequences in this concept of multiculturalism and the environment legitimates that (Walsh 2014). According to the political narratives there is only one nation that is considered to be the losers in the modern economy. His study states something different that their contempt for government and their deep loyalty lies with Australia. The people of Australia voted their political leaders based on how they want their way of life and culture (Meer and Modood 2016). Followers of Hanson had revealed of not being disturbed by the change of the climate or by social issues and drugs that are faced by the country. People of Australia were never really worried or troubled about the difference and gap between the rich and the poor. Instead they wanted to help and support the governments when it needed. They are not aware of the national security of the country. People of Australia have been applying these methods by executing the changes across the country. Individuals feel secured in the environment of their country. As observed, hostility is only one existing board to immigration. Immigration is treated to be the most challenging issue faced by Australia (Peucker, Roose and Akbarzadeh 2014). It is believed that immigrants should be declined based on the race and religion of those individuals. They have also been discriminated based on these two factors. However, they do not allocate such belief in majority of the Australians that welcoming immigrants from all the different countries will make them strong and a powerful country. It can be stated that it is a good thing for the citizens of Australia if they consider the fact that immigrants or people from different countries make them strong (Bloemraad and Wright 2014). As per the theory of Marcus, Australia is considered a country of the young. Maximum number of the young crowd believes that immigrants from all the location of the world is what makes Australia powerful. Very less number of people have opposed and have negative feelings for the Muslims (Bloemraad and Wright 2014). Other than that, 94% of young citizens believes the fact that multiculturalism helps, supports and makes the country strong. This will be regarded as a positive point and a good idea for the benefit of the Australia (Chisari 2015). It was not just about multiculturalism but Marcus stated that they were dealing with the occurrence of education and of the people associating with the outer world with the help of internet. This is because the young people belong to a different generation as compared to the generation of their parents. Therefore, people belonging from the young generation will add prosperity to the country (Ruez 2016). Young people are the considered to be the hope of the country. This generation does not consider the physical differences and race, which did not matter to them. They do not discriminate individuals based on their race and religion even if they belong from a different culture. This shows how the society have shifted and adapted new approaches in handling immigrants. A politician should be bothered about his country and how to make sufficient developments in the future. Under the policies of Australia that are subjected to law, every Australian individual have the right to express their personal beliefs and culture. The Government funds for settling the services that identifies the urgency and need for a few particular programs that are based on the principles and rules of participation. Presently, every Australian state and the existing territories have certain regulations that deal with the concept of multiculturalism. All the Australian state and territories governments have set up agencies and bodies that deal with the issues of the cultural diversity (Westlake 2016). As per the jurisdictions, there are approaches that are applied depending on the nature of the multicultural policy, principles and structures. The 2000 Act, explained an array of public authorities as per which the services of multicultural deliver the obligations that can be applied in the state owned undertakings. The concept of multiculturalism has been expanded in this Act (Jo hns, Mansouri and Lobo 2015). However, in the past one decade, Australia there have been compared to Europe and America that have been through the public anxiety that acted as a threat to the social confusion. This concept has been treated as both a concept and a theory. Hence, in this theory it was determined and argued that majority number of supporters of multiculturalism had divergence between the methods and approaches that were applied (Flew et al. 2017). It can be concluded stating that the Australian values have been shifted from the concept of multiculturalism. The last policy of the Government was related to the concept of established security that concerned about the consequences of terrorism as per the authors Bloemraad and Wright 2014. Therefore, the political leaders should not have any difficulty in presenting the multicultural Australia. Australia should not be stressed on the cultural diversity of the country as multiculturalism brings in innovation, ideas, achievement and skills that are suppose to be beneficial for the country. There have been confusion existing on multiculturalism that focuses on the policy of immigration. Different people have different cultural and occupational backgrounds. Plenty of individuals have expressed their concern about the immigrants. The confusion states that whether and how the Australian governments will associate themselves with the concept of multiculturalism in responding to the evolvi ng nature of Australian society at present and in future. This concept is good for the country, as it does not create any kind of confusion or trouble among the citizens of the country. 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