AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA

Canberra is the capital of the Commonwealth of Australia, is a federal democracy with a population of 21,875,000 persons, with an annual population growth rate: 1.7%, some ethnic groups present are: European 92%, Asian 6%, Aboriginal 2%, predominant religions:Catholic 26%, Anglican 19%, other Christian 19%, official language: English.

The continent of Australia, with the island state of Tasmania, is approximately equal in area to the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).

The western half of the continent is occupied by a desert plateau that rises into barren, rolling hills near the west coast. The Great Barrier Reef, extending about 1,245 mi (2,000 km), lies along the northeast coast. The island of Tasmania (26,178 sq mi; 67,800 sq km) is off the southeast coast.

The first inhabitants of Australia were the Aborigines, who migrated there at least 40,000 years ago from Southeast Asia.

Australia is considered an isolated country, they count with a cultural diversity, multiculturalism over 140 nationalities live side by side the country, they had suffer a phenomenon of migration over the past 60 years, most of them from Vietnam and Europe and this was because of the wars. It counts with a large area as the United States, most people live in coastal cities and this makes them the people most urbanized on earth.

The tall poppy syndrome refers to describe a social phenomenon in which people of genuine merit are resented, attacked, cut down, or criticized because their talents or achievements elevate them above or distinguish them from their peers, this syndrome is happening constantly on Australia, New Zealand and other countries.

Some of the characteristics of the Australian culture is the egalitarianism, their openness and their individualism.

The Australian corporate culture is highly influenced by the European style. Managers tend to practice a consultative style and the role of the leader is to harness. Businesses in Australia have high tolerance to risk, and Australians don’t show the level of commitment to work than Americans tend to do.

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When removed from their families, the children were prepared for “a better life”, how is that true or false when considering different perspectives?

Australia is home to many different Indigenous or Aboriginal clans, also known as Aboriginal nations or tribes. Among the largest and most prominent of the remaining clans are the Pitjantjatjara, Arrernte, Luritja, Tharawal, Wiradjuri, Wonnarua, Alvawarre, Guugu, Yimithirr, Gabi Gabi, and Yorta Yorta Peoples.
All of Australia's Indigenous Peoples are, or were at some point, seminomadic hunters and gathers. As a result, tracking of both animals and plants is considered a particularly important aspect of Aboriginal culture.
Today, 32 percent of Australia's Indigenous community lives in urban areas and 43 percent live in regional centers.

The stolen generation in Australia refers to is a term used to describe those children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were harshly removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments. The removals occurred in the period between approximately 1869 and 1969, although in some places children were still being taken in the 1970s.

In that time children were taken from their families in order to raise them better and give them education and even they used the term protection, and in a way to purify their culture, to me this reflects the situation back in Germany where the Nazis were trying to purify their race, this was not as aggressively as the Germans but it has at the end the same purpose that is to improve their population, ones did it by killing mallards of people and other made it by taken away children from their families and force them to live a life that most of them didn’t want it away from its family.

¨RABBIT PROOF FENCE¨

The movie ¨Rabbit proof fence¨ place the situation of Australian aborigines back In 1931, with the Aborigine Act in Australia, the Chief Protector of Aborigines in the State of Western Australia A.O. Neville had the power to relocate half-caste children from their families to educational centers to give the culture of the white man. When the fourteen year-old aboriginal girl Molly Craig is taken from her mother in Jigalong with her eight year-old sister Daisy Kadibill and their ten year-old cousin Gracie Fields to the distant Moore River Native Center, they run away trying to return to the tribe in the desert. They are chased by the skilled tracker Moodoo and the police under the command of Neville, and have to survive to their long journey back home.