As the barriers between countries becomes an ever increasing blur, the necessity to study language is of the utmost importance in order to fully comprehend contemporary society. The ability to have the skills to use languages enables one to communicate with a wider array of cultures in order to appropriately understand the reasoning behind decisions at both a micro and macro level as well as enabling a far greater understanding of surrounding cultures in order to benefit the society's future at an economic, strategic and cultural level. Other than Australia being a cavalcade of differing ethnicities the ability to communicate within the various ethnic groups of which Australia comprises of creates the unique ability to not only benefit Australian
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If a Contemporary Society practitioner is unable to maintain pace with the constant evolution of society then they fail to understand and in turn study our contemporary society. Australia from this evolutionary and organic analogy has always been a multicultural hub. Since its conception it has always contained several cultural or ethnic groups as a rapidly expanding society and continues to do so as evident by statistics provided by the ABS where it states as it stood on 30th June 2013, 27.7% of the estimated residential population was born overseas (6.4 million people) with a steady rise expected to continue. This notion of Australia, being founded by immigrants and as such being a natural hub for the blending of cultures into a multicultural society is a view shared by Colic-Peisker, Val(2011) as he states "Since the first British fleet landed on Australian shores in 1788, the modern Australian nation has been consciously, and often controversially, designed …show more content…
Australia, according to Judith Snodgrass , has the highest rate of students learning Japanese, this is most likely due to the fact the Australia has "become the first major agricultural nation to implement a free trade agreement with Japan (JAEPA) after seven years of negotiation." which in turn affects our society, as a lack in ability to communicate would severely hinder our ability to trade. Australia has to take into account that in our contemporary society our borders aren't as defined as they once were due to our multi-modal networking has been able to shape our society down to the micro level due to technological advances . Other partners of Australia also have a high proportion of residents that speak a language other than English which poses a problem for non speakers of that language, for example if I were to apply for a position where I would have to communicate with another person located within the United States there would be a higher chance that I would be hired over another applicant due to me being able to communicate more than adequately in Spanish than someone who does not know the language. This is because the United States has a high proportion of residents who speak Spanish over English where approximately 12% of the nation speaking Spanish making the United states the second largest Hispanophone
If a Contemporary Society practitioner is unable to maintain pace with the constant evolution of society then they fail to understand and in turn study our contemporary society. Australia from this evolutionary and organic analogy has always been a multicultural hub. Since its conception it has always contained several cultural or ethnic groups as a rapidly expanding society and continues to do so as evident by statistics provided by the ABS where it states as it stood on 30th June 2013, 27.7% of the estimated residential population was born overseas (6.4 million people) with a steady rise expected to continue. This notion of Australia, being founded by immigrants and as such being a natural hub for the blending of cultures into a multicultural society is a view shared by Colic-Peisker, Val(2011) as he states "Since the first British fleet landed on Australian shores in 1788, the modern Australian nation has been consciously, and often controversially, designed …show more content…
Australia, according to Judith Snodgrass , has the highest rate of students learning Japanese, this is most likely due to the fact the Australia has "become the first major agricultural nation to implement a free trade agreement with Japan (JAEPA) after seven years of negotiation." which in turn affects our society, as a lack in ability to communicate would severely hinder our ability to trade. Australia has to take into account that in our contemporary society our borders aren't as defined as they once were due to our multi-modal networking has been able to shape our society down to the micro level due to technological advances . Other partners of Australia also have a high proportion of residents that speak a language other than English which poses a problem for non speakers of that language, for example if I were to apply for a position where I would have to communicate with another person located within the United States there would be a higher chance that I would be hired over another applicant due to me being able to communicate more than adequately in Spanish than someone who does not know the language. This is because the United States has a high proportion of residents who speak Spanish over English where approximately 12% of the nation speaking Spanish making the United states the second largest Hispanophone