The Fear of the Foreigner Xenophobia can be defined as the attitudes, prejudices and behaviour that reject, exclude persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.
As citizens of a multicultural nation, we can be conditioned to fear and discriminate against those whose characteristics differ from ours. The drive to quickly divide the world into ‘us’ and ‘them’ are powerful in confirming a person’s identity.
The ‘subcultural diversity’ argues that people are more afraid of people who look and act different because they struggle to understand their mannerism and behaviours. Whilst people of all cultures, backgrounds and faiths …show more content…
Sara was one of the first Greeks in the country town that her family chose to settle down in. She was often estranged from his fellow classmates, and made fun of because of her darker features.
By the time Sara had begun high school, she had been convinced that she was different. Her father worked in a mining field and was referred to by his colleagues as ‘that wog’. Sara denied her cultural background as a way of desperately seeking acceptance into a new society. On some days, she avoided going to school and preferred to stay at home.
This Personal Interest Project explores Sara’s journey, which is symbolic of a newly arrived immigrant in …show more content…
Within education fields and work environments, people of diverse cultures are integrated together. The Australian community is developing tolerance to treat individual migrant groups fairly and allow them to become productive members of society.
A person writing in to the editor of an online newspaper even stated:
“… Aussies are defending the Aussie man's right to live freely how we used to be before gang violence was brought in from overseas…”
These critics, including far-right conservative groups such as One Nation, blame immigration for social conflict, economic problems and environmental decay. An argument that erupted in the opinions page of the free Rail newspaper, MX, featured the controversy that Australia’s water shortage is a result of too much immigration.
However, the reality was that the more migrants that arrived in Australia, the more the economy rose. To have a migrant with labouring skills become a citizen in Australia, was an advantage. Their skills were useful is assisting and transferring their procedures and strategies to domestic workers. The growing influx of skilled workers from overseas contributed to technological advancements as well as the mining
As citizens of a multicultural nation, we can be conditioned to fear and discriminate against those whose characteristics differ from ours. The drive to quickly divide the world into ‘us’ and ‘them’ are powerful in confirming a person’s identity.
The ‘subcultural diversity’ argues that people are more afraid of people who look and act different because they struggle to understand their mannerism and behaviours. Whilst people of all cultures, backgrounds and faiths …show more content…
Sara was one of the first Greeks in the country town that her family chose to settle down in. She was often estranged from his fellow classmates, and made fun of because of her darker features.
By the time Sara had begun high school, she had been convinced that she was different. Her father worked in a mining field and was referred to by his colleagues as ‘that wog’. Sara denied her cultural background as a way of desperately seeking acceptance into a new society. On some days, she avoided going to school and preferred to stay at home.
This Personal Interest Project explores Sara’s journey, which is symbolic of a newly arrived immigrant in …show more content…
Within education fields and work environments, people of diverse cultures are integrated together. The Australian community is developing tolerance to treat individual migrant groups fairly and allow them to become productive members of society.
A person writing in to the editor of an online newspaper even stated:
“… Aussies are defending the Aussie man's right to live freely how we used to be before gang violence was brought in from overseas…”
These critics, including far-right conservative groups such as One Nation, blame immigration for social conflict, economic problems and environmental decay. An argument that erupted in the opinions page of the free Rail newspaper, MX, featured the controversy that Australia’s water shortage is a result of too much immigration.
However, the reality was that the more migrants that arrived in Australia, the more the economy rose. To have a migrant with labouring skills become a citizen in Australia, was an advantage. Their skills were useful is assisting and transferring their procedures and strategies to domestic workers. The growing influx of skilled workers from overseas contributed to technological advancements as well as the mining