... a splash, a period of adjustment, but it also has finally found a way to the very interior of Australian society and Australian culture. Once limited to the humble meat pie or fish and chips, Australian fusion cooking is now world-renowned. Take-away generally consists of pizza, souvlaki and Thai or Indian curries, ... values. This has not always been the case. Over the year it has been found that migrants have always struggled, to fit into Australian society and still face feelings of alienation and harassment. Through the use of visual and written texts, it is known that migrants are ...

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... his son is also presented in "Felix Skrzynecki". The father witnesses his son gradually distancing from both him and his culture as he grows older. Whilst his father refuses to assimilate with Australian culture, his son conforms to Australian society and its culture, forgetting "(his) first Polish word". The poet uses the Hadrian Wall metaphor to further assert the generation gap between ... father and son, emphasizing the son's growing distance from his roots. The significance of the poet's "tents" demonstrates the multiple differences now evident between father and son - those of cult...

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... , "loved like an only child," is a symbol for Poland, the homeland of the persona's father. His powerful, almost familial, kinship with his homeland shows his choice to not accept Australian culture, but instead to seek comfort in his own world. This attachment, as the audience is told that the poet's father has, "swept its [the garden's] paths ten times around ... 's Gallic Warforgot his first Polish word." The Polish language is a motif for belonging in his father's world. The persona has begun to lose touch with his culture, and has chosen to assimilate to Australian culture. He is mov...

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... that brings them together due to their traditions. The last line identifies the family as "inheritors of a key " the metaphor alluding to the family's assimilation and naturalisation into Australian society by becoming "citizens of the soil" through the imagery associated with sustenance. However the negative connotations of "when this one is pulled down" symbolizes the loss of their ... of acceptance and identity. Paul Keating's "Redfern Speech" reflects on the impact of the exclusion of Indigenous Australians, thus stressing the need for the acceptance and recognition of their culture....

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... the sense of the father and son belonging to each other. On the surface he seems to fit in with Australia having immersed himself into the culture however has a deep connection with his polish heritage and Poland itself. This is shown in the cliche "Kept pace only with the Joneses of ... making," This shows the sense of belonging to Australia is only surface deep as it uses an Australian Idiom. The second half of the quote displays his choice to not belong to the culture and that he chooses his own standards. Individuality. In contrast to this sense of not belonging , it ... has become c...

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... examines the changing perspectives between a father and son. At first he son could not understand the physical nature of his father, the hardships that he has endured, or the Polish Culture that he hangs onto. As time passes and the child grows and matures, his perspective of his father changes. The quotes "I never once heard him complain about work, weather of ... that of the father when looking at his son. He feels that his son is slowly detaching from him. As the father hangs onto his Polish culture, his son is slowly conforming to the new Australian way of life. The poet uses the ad...

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... examines the changing perspectives between a father and son. At first he son could not understand the physical nature of his father, the hardships that he has endured, or the Polish Culture that he hangs onto. As time passes and the child grows and matures, his perspective of his father changes. The quotes "I never once heard him complain about work, weather of ... that of the father when looking at his son. He feels that his son is slowly detaching from him. As the father hangs onto his Polish culture, his son is slowly conforming to the new Australian way of life. The poet uses the ad...

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