Some 50,000 years ago the Aboriginal people were the first people to inhabit Australia when they migrated to the continent from Asia. The Aboriginal people were Australia’s only culture for some 49,000 years until around the 1700’s. When the first European settlement was established in 1788 at Port Jackson; this settlement was a British penal colony that later grew into the city of Sydney we know today. The new inhabitants of Australia’s culture started to develop more of these British colonies in the

Just look at the change in culture that would occur if the median age (a reference age where half the population is older and half is younger) were 55. These elderly people would not only be running the country but dictating the culture. You might see the culture lean more towards collectivism and higher uncertainty avoidance. Or what might Australia’s culture be like if immigration of Asians made up 10% of the growth rate over the next five to ten years. You might see higher power distance and lower masculinity traits in Asian-Australian culture. What does Australia’s future culture hold? That is hard to say. The one thing that you can say for sure is that the culture is slowly changing.

The Australian culture of today is very different from the one that started with the Aborigines some 200 years ago. In a relatively short amount of time the Aborigines have gone from being the main culture to being a sub-culture in Australia. As the Europeans have taken over Australia’s culture they have set up a lifestyle that is based on individual freedoms. These freedoms are what make it possible for Australia to undergo another cultural shift. This next cultural shift will not be anywhere near as fast as the last one. This time the change will not be brought about by settlers building penal colonies, but by immigrants slowly entering the country year after year. Right now Australia’s culture is very much like our own (we being Americans), but if current trends continue such as the increase in Asian immigrants and the aging of the general population, things will start to change as these variables begin to take effect.

The estimated total population in 2002 was 19,546,792, giving the country an overall population density of 3 people per sq km (or 7 per sq mi). This makes Australia the least populated continent in the world. Australia’s male (50.3%) to female (49.7%) ratio is almost even. The population has grown at a relatively slow rate, averaging about 1.25 % each year from 1996 to 2002. Most of the Australia is not even inhabited; about 85 % of the population lives in cities along the coasts. In fact, four out of every five Australians live on the

Some topics in this essay:
Learning Research, Europeans Australia’s, Education Australia, Strait Islander, South Africa, Port Jackson, Indian Ocean, Europe Lately, Australia People, RACE Aboriginal, research 1993, learning research, msn learning, msn learning research, learning research 1993, australia’s culture, australian culture, % population, aboriginal people, torres strait, torres strait islander, preschool education, mi makes australia, strait islander, aboriginal torres strait,