LESSON 19.6 Review 19.6.1
Key knowledge summary Use this dot point summary to review the content covered in this topic. 19.2 What does national identity mean in a globalised world?
• Due to Australia’s diverse cultural composition, a singular national identity is difficult to isolate. • With improvements in transportation and information communication technology, the world has become a smaller place — a process known as globalisation. • Globalisation has facilitated the movement of people and ideas, creating a blend of cultural identities within many countries, including Australia. • National identities have become more similar in the modern world. • Citizens of countries have responsibilities to their own countries but also to the global community. 19.3 How has Australia’s identity been shaped? • Australian national identity has evolved over time, beginning with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples over 65 000 years ago. • Changes to Australian national identity have mirrored the country’s immigration history and also our changing regional relationships and alliances. 19.4 What are the different perspectives on national identity in Australia? • People have differing perspectives on national identity and what it means to be Australian. These perspectives are sometimes built on false assumptions and incorrect cultural stereotypes. • Symbols (such as the Australian national flag) and issues (such as Australia’s attitude towards refugees and asylum seekers) can often reflect the way cultural identity is felt and represented by different cultural groups within Australian society. 19.5 Inquiry: What is the future of Australia Day? • The date currently used to celebrate Australia Day is problematic, largely because of the significance of that date in the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. 19.6.2 Key terms asylum seeker a person whose request for sanctuary has yet to be processed cultural homogenisation the diversity of unique national identities is being replaced by a uniform identity for all cultural tokenism when demonstrations of national identity lose meaning, becoming token gestures or novelties decimate to kill, destroy or remove a large proportion of something global citizenship being aware of the interconnectedness of the globalised world and acting in a way that promotes this notion globalisation the process of interacting with markets in other countries around the world, as part of an integrated global economic system marginalisation treatment of a group of people which relegates them to the fringes of society pluralism the recognition and affirmation of diversity within a political body, which is seen to permit the peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions and lifestyles refugee a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster stereotype widely held but oversimplified idea of a type of person or thing terra nullius (‘land belonging to no-one’) in Australia, the legal idea that since no-one was ‘using’ the land when the first Europeans arrived, it could be claimed by the British Crown
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