LESSON 14.6 Review 14.6.1
Key knowledge summary
14.2 Australia’s diverse society • Australia’s cultural diversity shapes its identity. • Embracing diversity strengthens social cohesion, with knowledge fostering tolerance. 14.3 What role does religion play in Australian society? • Australia is secular, promoting religious freedom. • Migrants bring religious beliefs and traditions. • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ spirituality remains underrepresented in Australian culture. 14.4 How do we promote cohesion in Australian society? • Values guide living a good life.
• Shared values promote unity, while differing values can divide. • Australian values reþect the nation’s diverse backgrounds. 14.5 Inquiry: Will the Religious Discrimination Bill protect us?
• Legislation must protect everyone’s rights. • Religious views can impact political decisions. 14.6.2 Key terms
cultural intolerance when individual differences are not accepted by others discrimination unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on race, gender, age or sexual orientation diverse showing a great deal of variety inclusiveness providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone multiculturalism a society in which the cultures and traditions of many different groups coexist and are encouraged persecution hostility, violence or ill-will directed at a person or group of people on the basis of their personal characteristics perspective a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something secular not having a connection to religion social cohesion the degree to which communities are united by shared values, traditions and experiences tribalism behaviour and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one’s own social group, sometimes in opposition to other groups values principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations White Australia Policy informal name for the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 , which effectively prevented non-European immigration to Australia
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