Multiculturalism In Australia

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Multiculturalism in the World – What Japanese Companies Can Learn From Australian Enterprises? Globalization—the world we never spend a day without hearing it nowadays. Many countries all over the world have become globalized in the blink of an eye, and Japan is no exception. Several companies have already taken steps to make themselves “globalized”; for instance, Toyota not only hire foreign employees but also put a lot of effort in training their employees to become active in international occasion by many measures such as teaching company’s philosophy during training session and sending them to University of Pennsylvania to study on the company’s expenses. Moreover, countless foreign companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Boston Consulting Group …show more content…

Tanaka (2011) explains its root dividing the history of immigration into three stages: discovery of the land, Australia as a penal colony, and Gold Rush. The first ever to land on the Oceanian frontier was aborigines. Approximately, 40,000 years ago, they arrived to Australia, and they settled all across the land in the next another 10,000 years. By the time European settlers entered the land in the 17th country, roughly 0.3 to one million aborigines were living in the …show more content…

As the economical interactions amongst provinces became more active around 1880s, the colonial prime minister in Victoria suggested the importance of unification of colonies. This led them to establish the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. In fact, Australia had a unique way to its independent. The United States fought with the UK for independency and other Commonwealth nations such as South Africa, Canada, Ireland and so forth acquired independency through Statute of Westminster 1931—by this, the UK acknowledged commonwealth nations’ independency and autonomy without any intervention of the UK with remaining as commonwealth countries. On the other hand, as a matter of fact, the perception of Australia’s independency varies person to person, for Australia did not declare independency through Statute of Westminster—because they could not lose the UK as its biggest market for their primal industry and the UK’s powerful navy’s protection to assist them militarily―and even sent their military in order to fight on the side of the UK during the World Wars. Therefore, people still had their identities as British during 1950s, and “Australian passport” did not even exist until 1972. Eventually, Constitution

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