... Immigration is a worldwide phenomenon. Canada is an increasingly ethnically diverse country. Canada's reflection of ethnic diversity is due to the increasing flow of immigration. The vast majority of Canadians are born in Canada, and most of them are from European descent. Close to, half of all immigrants that came to Canada between 1991 and 1996 reveal a first language other than French ... at first but after 10 to 12 years, they have caught up and exceeded the national average wage. It's been reported that children of immigrant family often out perform children born Canada. Almost one...

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... Immigration is a worldwide phenomenon. Canada is an increasingly ethnically diverse country. Canada's reflection of ethnic diversity is due to the increasing flow of immigration. The vast majority of Canadians are born in Canada, and most of them are from European descent. Close to, half of all immigrants that came to Canada between 1991 and 1996 reveal a first language other than French ... at first but after 10 to 12 years, they have caught up and exceeded the national average wage. It's been reported that children of immigrant family often out perform children born Canada. Almost one...

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... protect it from foreign influence of different cultures. By the 1880's three quarters of Australia's population had been born in Australia. This is an important cause of national identity because you feel Australian if you are born there, unlike previous generations, where the majority were born in other countries. So at this time an identity, which was formed around a distinctive Anglo-Celtic ethnical ... ...

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... the Australian culture. Since World War II, the population has started to become more ethnically diversified, as people from a wider range of countries have started to migrate to Australia. People born in other countries increased from 10 % in 1947 to 24 % in 2000. In 1947, 81 % of new arrivals came from Europe. Lately people from other parts of the world have ... 5 %; and India 4 %. These six countries represented about 53 % of total immigration during those years. After the early 1970s the immigration from Asian countries began to increase. In 1999-2000 Asian-born people made up 34 % ...

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... this way until 1983, when the age was raised to 19. After much debate, on July 17, 1984 Congress passed a law stating that people born after July 1, 1966 had to be 21 to buy or possess alcohol. Those born before July 1 retained their right to drink. The main push to reform this law was led by a woman named Candy Lightner, who founded ... ...

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... and senior managers of public companies are from a non Anglo-Celtic background (NMAC, 1995:11-12). This is despite the fact that over 42% of Australians are born overseas, or have at least one parent born overseas (The Age, 2003). Clearly, the lack of ethnic representation within Australia's creative and administrative appendages reflects negatively on a society that prides itself on a supposedly representative ... ...

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... America in the 1970's, our very own Rupert Murdoch joined the US ranks launching Fox network as the fourth US network, up against a saturated market a new breed of entertainment was born, reality style tabloid television. The first of which was A Current Affairs' followed closely by the next cab of the rank America's most wanted', but what do we care in Australia ... Americans and more recently Australians through sensationalism, tabloid journalism augments significant events of the times, thereby shaping the pages of history. "Tabloid Television, as the term is generally understood, wa...

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... together with the significant contributions of the early settlers and more recent migrants have helped build the nation we belong to today. With 43% of the population born overseas or with at least one parent born overseas, and with some 200 languages between us, we have one of the most cosmopolitan populations in the world. Multiculturalism celebrates Australian traditions, recognising that our ... ...

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... not as widely embraced, and various artists recognized this and challenged the international communities to become familiar with the artists interpretations of Australia; the independent' nation. George Russell Drysdale was born in Bognor Regis, England on the 7th of February 1912 and died on the 29th of June 1981 in Sydney's Westmead Hospital. Drysdale traveled to and from Australia numerous times ... to form, painted this image in trademark style, conforming to his dry brush strokes and slight touches of theatrical and sentimental charm which he became accustomed to. Sidney Nolan was ...

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... the major political parties in Australia abandoned the racist immigration policy. Thus by 1995, 38% of migrants arriving in Australia had been born in an Asian country, although this dropped from the peak of 51% in 1991. 15% were born in South East Asia including 5% from Vietnam. Australia has an incredible sense of space to people living in densely populated Asian cities ... ...

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... Australia it has created many difficulties for Indigenous Australians in education, cultural understanding, and general life. For example, teachers whom teach Indigenous students teach a mainly western curriculum which uses knowledge born out of western culture, and language, beliefs and social practices that are based on western culture. Here there have been concerns regarding literacy, among other issues, with Indigenous peoples. &apos ... ...

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... the USA, Cuba, and the Hitler and Stalin regimes. Republics are countries that have elected Parliamentary leaderships. So in the case of Hitler Stalin and Cuba which were/are dictatorships born from ideological extremist groups in times of severe depression, they can hardly be compared to a modern day Australia. The American example of republic that has its President as a Head of ... ...

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... with multiculturalism that have arisen in recent years. For example, many migrants in places such as Dandenong and Springvale in Victoria, where close to 50% of residents are not Australian born, have low levels of education and skill. The lack of education is due to many of these residents arriving in Australia on humanitarian grounds. They came from war-ravaged countries ... ...

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... once they were married. In 1928 the average salary for a woman was $8.80 while a mans average salary was $10.40. The great Australian dream of owning your own home was born during the 1920's. People started to live in suburbs and were moving out of the city. This was the start of the quarter acre block. When the soldiers returned from ... ...

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... passionate about many things: he is a businessman, an adventurer, a philanthropist and a conservationist. He has made millions of dollars but he is not really interested in the money itself. He was born in Sydney in 1944 and named Australian of the year in 1986. Personal qualities Dick Smith admits that he was never any good in school and hardly listens at his ... ...

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... spirit form. There, where water exists or in some other natural feature associated with the migrating group, they?ll stay there from when they entered their mothers? wombs to be born, or indeed, to be reincarnated. And after death, they return to those same spirit homes. ~Government: The Aborigines themselves have no government. They are under the commonwealth of the British ... ...

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... 1800's; and has Heath Ledger doing background narrating, speaking Ned's thoughts and emotions, which made me automatically sympathize with him. Ned comes from an Irish background, although he himself was born in Australia. In the beginning Ned is falsely accused of stealing a horse and ends up in prison. Within the first few scenes it is easy to see that Ned is ... ...

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... put forward a number of arguments for federation. A sense of nationhood was growing, with improvements in communication and better transport bringing people together, and with 70% of the population being Australian-born. Issues such as defense were causing concern, with growing German aggression close by in New Guinea, French presence in the New Hebrides, and American and Russian economic activities in the ... ...

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... de facto couples. With the growing legal acceptance of same sex couples many court hearings have allowed for entitlements previously exclusive to heterosexual couples. When a lesbian couple with two children born with the aid of artificial insemination separated, the case of W v G 1994 ruled that one partner had to pay child maintenance of $150 000. Another case, R v McEwen 1996, allowed a gay partner ... ...

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... law enforcement called the Native Police, these men would regularly ride out on horseback to the edges of the settlement to kill Aborigines. Captain Arthur Phillip Captain Arthur Phillip was born in 1738 in London.. He attended the Greenwich school for the sons of seamen and was apprenticed to the Merchant Navy, graduating in 1755, after two years at sea. He ... ...

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