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Ethnic Languages in Australia by J. J. SMOLICZ; R. McL. HARRIS is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ethnic Languages in Australia about?
Australia is now a cultural and linguistic mosaic. Immigrants and their descendants today amount to about five million or 40% or Australia's total population. Over half this number speak languages other than English and differ in cultural heritage, values and social affiliations from Anglo-Australians of British or Irish descent. As the former Minister of Immigration, A. J. Grassby (1974: 2), has commented, 'this situation was never equalled in the history of migration to the U.S.A. ... Whether we like it or not, our society is already so diverse that conformism is no longer meaningful in the absence of a generally accepted pattern to which we may conform'. Multiculturalism is increasingly becoming accepted as a desirable goal for Australian society; in the present decade it has been recognized by alterations to the legal systems (with the removal of obstacles to the use of ethnic languages as a medium of instruction), as well as in the policies of all major political parties. So far, however, there has been little evidence of schools promoting and supporting Australian ethnic cultures as well as the dominant Anglo-Australian one. And yet, as Grassby again points out, 'if we wish t
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- Author
- J. J. SMOLICZ; R. McL. HARRIS
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 1977
- Language
- LA
- Field
- Social Sciences