Multiculturalism

What do you understand about diversity? If you seek diversity in dictionary, you can see that it simply means a variety or difference. However, some people have misunderstood diversity as the involvement of racial minorities. Race is one of the many aspects that can help create a diverse group of individuals. Diversity includes race, national origin, home state or country, interests and other factors. What about cultural? Are you aware of what it means? It is actually relating to a particular of society and ideas.

Every nation on the globe has their own cultural diversity due to variety of tribes and cultures. This makes the country special and unique. Traditional food is one of the example cultural diversity. It also represents the specialty of each tribe. It is an undeniable fact that eating is enjoyed by everyone; hence this is a good way to introduce the uniqueness of your own nation’s culture. Damper is a traditional Australian soda bread prepared by swagmen, drovers and other travellers. It is a wheat flour based bread, traditionally baked in the coals of a campfire.

Owning to rich cultural heritage, there are wide assortments of traditional games that are still playing although some of it had become extinct in developing waves of technology. Most people nowadays put the blame on the shoulders of the young as they said youth spend most of their time in front of electronic media resulting in these games to be forgotten. Nevertheless, this cultural heritage can be one of the tourism attractions which can help to increase one country’s economy. In Australia, one of their traditional games is Kai. This game from the Torres Strait a number of players stood in a circle and sang the Kai wed (ball song) as they hit a ball up in the air with the palm of their hands. The game was played using the thick, oval, deep red fruit of the Kai tree which is quite light when dry.

Multiracial countries have a lot of benefit. The uniqueness of traditional dances and music can attract a large number of tourists to their country. Tourists are usually interested with the features such as instrumental and vocal music of different tribes, as well as traditional dances of each races. This type of culture can also symbolize the loveliness as we can see it through the graceful of the dances. Australia has a unique traditional dances it is a combination of English, Irish, Scottish and other European dance. Bush dances are similar to American line dances or American square dances, in that all dancers know certain steps and execute them together. Partners are often changed in the course of the dance.

Traditional costume is another example of cultural diversity that we can see in most country. Every race has their own traditional costume which they used in every special event. Most of the costumes symbolize the chastity and politeness of each tribe. Moreover, with the traditional costume, we can recognize where the races came from and it history. There is an ethnic in Australia named Indigenous Australians. They didn't wear much at all before white settlement. Drawings and photographs show them wearing little or nothing. However in the early 1870s, the original hat-making factory, not called Akubra at that time, was founded by Benjamin Dunkerley. A recent immigrant to Australia, Dunkerley set up shop in Tasmania after inventing a machine that removed the hair tip from rabbit fur, leaving the softer under-fur for use in the making of felt hats. Since then, Australian developed forms of dress include Akubra hats, RM Williams boots and bush wear, Ugg (sheepskin) boots and Speedo swimming costumes.

In a nutshell, cultural diversity is actually necessary in every nation in this world. This is because every culture has its own nostalgia to be remembered throughout all the generation. This is also to ensure that this historical culture will never lost in the rapid development of technology. 

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Written by , Syafiqah Roslan