Multiculturalism In Australia Essay

Bian and I’s presentation today discussed the topic of everyday multiculturalism. I started to talk about the Susanne Wessendorf reading for this week and stress her point on how interactions are essential to developing a united and diverse community. I then chose and excerpt from the reading which accentuated this point through using the example of the Orthodox Jewish community in the London borough being discussed by Wessendorf. The example entails the discussion amongst two white British ladies and, an Orthodox Jewish woman, and then an Orthodox Jewish man. I chose this portion of the text to discuss as I thought it not only touched on the importance of interactions in developing a multicultural community, but also it made it evident how that even though

I choose to present this through an interactive website created by SBS. This website allowed the visitor to type in a suburb in Australia and then would present the rate of diversity in that suburb. This proved to be a successful part of the presentation as the class got involved and gave suggestions as to what suburb I would type in. This provided a real interpretation of everyday multiculturalism as people could relate to the information being shown. I presented this information to show that Australia is in fact very diverse but then compared it to Hackney and how Australia does not reach their level of “super diversity” as we are still experiencing uncertainty towards multiculturalism in Australia. To then align everyday multiculturalism to the Modern Australian context I presented the class with an article which discussed Malcom Turnbull’s update of Australia’s multicultural statement. I showed this article as I thought it was not only topical and current but it showed how Australia is currently dealing with the concept of Multiculturalism. I could have elaborated on this article more and discussed the pros and cons to updating this