Australia is known as a multi-cultural country in which there are many different cultures being represented in everyday life such as cuisine, language, knowledge of flora and fauna, careers, hobbies, transportation and consumer wants. Due to the amount of diverse cultures in the same country, there is many opportunities for cultures to impact each other. These impacts could be positive or negative.
For example, in the past and still continuing today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been negatively impacted by overly using alcohol, drugs, and by smoking which leads to many health issues. According to the Bureau of Statistics (2010) almost half of the Indigenous population (45.1%) are current smokers and 23.7% are ex-smokers, meaning that 68.8% of the Indigenous population have or are currently opening themselves up to the health issues that smoking leads to. In a self-assessed health status, the trend revealed in graph 4.1(a) shows that Indigenous people assessed their health to deteriorate over time with the rating of excellent or very good moving from 59% to 20% between 15 and 55+ years and the rating of fair or poor moving from 10% to 46% between 15 and 55+ years (Bureau of Statistics, 2010). In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, these things are introduced and were not originally within their culture. …show more content…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture impacts positively on other cultures through their knowledge of Australian flora, or ‘bush tucker’. As Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inhabitants were mainly nomadic and lived off what they could find within the environment, it is easy to recognise that ‘bush tucker’ is beneficial to human health. Many people travel to Australia to take ‘bush tucker’ tours and some original ‘bush tucker’ ingredients are used by many families across Australia every day including kangaroo, hibiscus flowers, wattle seed, lemon myrtle and macadamias
For example, in the past and still continuing today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been negatively impacted by overly using alcohol, drugs, and by smoking which leads to many health issues. According to the Bureau of Statistics (2010) almost half of the Indigenous population (45.1%) are current smokers and 23.7% are ex-smokers, meaning that 68.8% of the Indigenous population have or are currently opening themselves up to the health issues that smoking leads to. In a self-assessed health status, the trend revealed in graph 4.1(a) shows that Indigenous people assessed their health to deteriorate over time with the rating of excellent or very good moving from 59% to 20% between 15 and 55+ years and the rating of fair or poor moving from 10% to 46% between 15 and 55+ years (Bureau of Statistics, 2010). In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, these things are introduced and were not originally within their culture. …show more content…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture impacts positively on other cultures through their knowledge of Australian flora, or ‘bush tucker’. As Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inhabitants were mainly nomadic and lived off what they could find within the environment, it is easy to recognise that ‘bush tucker’ is beneficial to human health. Many people travel to Australia to take ‘bush tucker’ tours and some original ‘bush tucker’ ingredients are used by many families across Australia every day including kangaroo, hibiscus flowers, wattle seed, lemon myrtle and macadamias