Australia is a land of migrants. The first group of migrants came to Australia over 40,000 years ago. This group of people were the Aborigines. In canoes and rafts they travelled across dangerous seas from their homes in Southeast Asia to the North of Australia. They favoured the areas around the coast, and along rivers for settlement, then they gradually moved inland across the continent. The Aborigines developed a good understanding of the land, and over a period of time grew to enhance a close bond with it. This link between the land and the Aborigines was unable to be understood by the second wave of migrants who came to Australia in 1788.

It was in 1788 that England needed a place far from home where unwanted convicts could be dumped, that Europeans settled in Australia. The first Europeans to live in Australia were unwilling migrants and convicts who had been exiled from their own homeland as a punish

But multiculturalism can create some problems in a society with a large population such as Australia’s. Everyone has their own opinion on people who are a different race then themselves. The way they look, the way that they might speak, the country that they come from and the reputation that particular country has to a group of people etc. There are so many different implications multiculturalism creates in a large society. These implications can evolve positive outcomes for a society, as well as problems that lead to conflict and other serious complications.

Overtime racism has improved and more and more solutions for racism are being revealed. The 2000 Olympic games for example was a huge success in expressing the view and possibility of reconciliation between the White Australians and the Aborigines, and more events such as this will occur.

But many of these countries also bring with them ethnic gangs that have developed into a huge problem for Australia. Their offensive and often violent behaviour made some areas around the country dangerous, unsafe and fearful and creates huge problems. Obviously one of the largest problems arising from multiculturalism in Australia is racism. Racism exists because people are afraid of other races, they think there race is superior over other races, and history

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