Multicultural Australia
The Australian Day, celebrated on January 26 this year, as usual, laid another step towards homogeneity of multicultural communities in Australia. Despite being hundreds of communities living together, the country is advancing and staying calm and peaceful.
One of the principles behind ‘One Nation One People’ policy government adopted, as advocated today, is that the country, being so small cannot withstand the cultural diversity. Broadly, there are two cultural groups and three ethnic groups in the country. And the government finds it is not possible to maintain this diversity as well.
The Australian Day parade in Adelaide is a good example for the Bhutanese leaders to know about building a healthy social life based on multiculturalism. A good mechanism in place and positive attitude towards other community always bring harmony in the community and the country. Domination, harassment and discrimination bring discord, disharmony and conflict.
A total of 130 cultural groups took part in the Parade. It never represents all cultural communities in Australia. According to statistics, the country hosts people from 200 countries. The cultural communities from these countries obviously supersede this figure.
Today, except one time, Australia always leads the list of countries that are peaceful and happy. Bhutan has never been so popular except in one instance where the surveyors probably might have talked with few well-to-do and influential families in Thimphu.
Australian policy of multiculturalism has demonstrated avidly the dynamics of heterogeneous society in promoting peace, happiness and harmony.
Bhutan, besides three larger groups, has many smaller communities, who remain dominated, suppressed. Unlike that, Australia promotes and supports the smaller community, extends helping hand to preserve community’s own culture and language. Bhutan does ban this. Cultural preservation, promotion of language other than Dzongkha and speaking one’s right has always been ‘anti-national activities’ in the name of Bhutanese tyrants.
For Australian Day pictures, visit the following link. Second link is Bhutanese participant in the parade.
Posted by Stephen Watts Photography on Thursday, 26 January 2012
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