Доклад по английскому языку "Multicultural Australia"
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Australian society is made up of people from a rich variety of cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious backgrounds, and this is a defining feature of modern Australian society. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have inhabited Australia for tens of thousands of years. Most Australians are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants who arrived during the past two hundred years from more than 200 countries.
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Multicultural Australia
Australian society is made up of people from a rich variety of cultural, ethnic, linguistic and
religious backgrounds, and this is a defining feature of modern Australian society.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have inhabited Australia for tens of thousands of
years. Most Australians are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants who arrived during the past
two hundred years from more than 200 countries. The country's population was just under 4 million people at the start of the 20th century,
almost doubled 45 years later and has more than tripled since then. And it is a different population
now.
At the end of the Second World War, 7.5 million people, most of Anglo Celtic origin
inhabited this country. Around the same number of immigrants have arrived on Australian shores
since then.
Today Australia has over 23,700,000 people. About 28% were born overseas. And an additional
20% have at least one parent born overseas.
Migrants have come from about 200 countries and have broadened the profile of the Australian
population. Our society is today richer, it is a mixture of cultures that blend into the same tolerant
and relaxed lifestyle.
People speak more languages, eat a variety of foods they did not know of before, play new
sports and embrace new habits.
The most commonly spoken language in Australia is English, and the most commonly practiced
religion is Christianity, although foreign languages and other religions are also common. Languages spoken in Australia
Surprisingly, an estimated 1 million migrants cannot speak English, a huge number in a country of
only around 20 million people, and some 3 million residents (around 15 per cent of the population)
speak a language other than English at home.
Sydney is Australia’s most multicultural city (closely followed by Melbourne), where four out of
six people in some suburbs speak a language other than English at home (overall some 30 per cent of
the population of Sydney doesn’t speak English at home). Sydney and Melbourne are home to around
65 per cent of all nonEnglish speaking migrants, who together speak a total of some 240 foreign
languages.
Many migrants predominantly use their mother tongue on a daytoday basis and have only a
smattering of English. Australia’s failure to train migrants in English is handicapping them in respect
of economic, political and social life, and ghettos are emerging where Australianborn children don’t
speak fluent English. There’s a thriving ethnic radio and TV broadcasting network, the Special
Broadcasting Service (SBS), which was established in 1978 and broadcasts in the main cities. Australian English is similar to British English but has its own colourful vernacular, called ‘ strine’
(from the way ‘Australian’ is pronounced with a heavy Australian accent), thrown in for good
measure. Strine (also calledOzspeak) is Australia’s greatest creative product and is full of
abbreviations, hyperbole, profanities, vulgar expressions and wordtweaking. Strine is the language of
a rebellious subculture and has its origins in theCockney (London) and Irish slang of the early
convicts. The use of strine and slang words varies with the state or region. The Australian language
also includes many words adopted from Aboriginal languages (see below).
Australians often cannot decide whether to use American or British spelling (e.g.
program/programme, labor/labour, etc.) and consequently misspellings abound. In everyday use,
many words have a completely different meaning in Australia than they do in other Englishspeaking
countries, such as crook (ill), game (brave),globe (light bulb), knock (criticise), ringer (top
performer), shout (round of drinks) and tube (can of beer).
Доклад по английскому языку "Multicultural Australia"
Доклад по английскому языку "Multicultural Australia"
Доклад по английскому языку "Multicultural Australia"
Доклад по английскому языку "Multicultural Australia"
Доклад по английскому языку "Multicultural Australia"
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