1. My family has always had come-together gatherings every Sunday as a tradition for embedding unity. I grew up respecting other people’s cultures and tradition. My views forge unity and encourage pride in diversity. Traveling to different regions and appreciating other cultures can support one in interaction with other people.
2. School visits are crucial. Interacting with children in schools can help. Children from different backgrounds of culture can be found in a diverse school. One can attend early childhood classes. The best way to learn is to observe then interact with them.
3. Commit to increasing own competence of culture. Make an effort to seek fresh ideas and perspectives. Treat other people in the manner you would want to be treated. Observe and listen more to diverse traditions of others. Make an effort of contributing to cultural diversity (Ely and Thomas, 2011).
4. Ensure their cultural distinctiveness is upheld. Ensure their economic acts of agriculture and hunting and gathering are not interfered with. Legislate on retaining all culture heritages. Integrate cultures into nationalist ideologies. Provide services for all.
5. Cultural awareness is working towards understanding that there is a difference between cultures.
6. One keeping an open mind. Making sure one has a considerable amount of information on other people’s cultures. Practicing active listening to other people. Being careful of verbal and non-verbal communication. Making personal relationships rather than work touches (Caligiuri and Tarique, 2012).
7. Asking about other people’s cultures. Making an effort to read widely on other cultures. Ensuring more interaction with people from different cultures. Taking part in other cultures to comprehend them. Having honest interest towards different cultural backgrounds.
8. Misunderstanding and conflict can occur because of poor communication, lack of patience and people making judgments. When we actively listen and take the time to understand, we can work towards a mutual understanding.
9. Strategies to use when communicating with others from culturally diverse backgrounds include using clear language and tone. Appropriate non-verbal communication, body language, and facial expressions have a great impact on communication and will aid the understanding process.
10. Diversity is different cultural heritage. Identity is recognition, acknowledgment, and acceptance of being diverse. Diversity means differences in race, ethnic, cultural practices and more. It should be a pillar of strength rather than division. It should lead to identity rather than disowning of cultures.
11. Social changes in Australia lead to far-right political affiliations. The economic expectations grow rapidly due to social changes. The social structure of the country is either united or divided along social changes. The cultural backgrounds face modernization wrath. The cultures of Australia are slowly getting westernized (Williams and Schirmer, 2012).
12. Age Discrimination Act 2004. Anti-Discrimination Act 1991(QLD). Anti-Discrimination Act 1997 (NSW). Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986. Disability Discrimination Act 1992. If the laws were breached, the aggrieved parties would move to a court of law and sue the accused persons (Ronalds and Raper, 2012).
13. Generalization integrates different cultures into a single culture. It does away with pride of cultural heritage. It leads to offending people who feel not represented in the generalization case. It leads to ignorance. It leads to dishonesty about the particular cultures that are generalized.
14. Cultural safety is the provision of more quality services to Aboriginal and Torres Islanders. Practices that acknowledge their cultural identities and that of others. Exercising flexibility towards other people’s culture. Making their rights come true. Being open-minded towards others (Durey, 2010).
15. Cultural safety issues that may hinder ECEC services include stereotypical barriers erected against the concept. This may lead to the cultural safety of the Islanders being exposed. Undeveloped trust can also lead to exposure to cultural safety (Durey, 2010).
16. Multicultural Access and Equity, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Sydney, P.O Box 25 and email: [email protected]
. The second one is AMEs Australia located in Melbourne and Sydney Australia. The contact telephone is 13 AMEs (13 2637).
17. Aboriginal legal service. The motive of this service is to accomplish proper justice to people of Aboriginal background. The ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre. It provides workshop and conference venues for the Aboriginal people (Zubrick, 2010).
18. It leads to maximum cooperation and fewer hitches. It also creates respect for the cultures of the people if they are consulted.
19. The ECEC services can invite the people to a conference and draft a consensus on the strategy of their culture safety. The ECEC services can also come up with an integrated plan that can be reviewed by the people and passed as a resolution(Lazzari and Vandenbroeck, 2012).
20. Keeping an open mind and being honest with an interest in the cultures of the people can develop effective relationships with educators and clients (Zubrick, 2010).
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22. The significance of the Islander people identity, kinship and Lore is the cultural heritage of the Australian people. This makes Australia diverse and a benchmark by other countries across the world (Zubrick, 2010).
23. Old aged cultures and beliefs. Lack of modernization acceptance. These are reasons for ill-health and diseases. The impact would be a reduction on the cases of ill-health and diseases. Their needs would just be accepting the modern structures of disease control (Mahoney, 2014).
24. The issue of health and diseases. The cultural safety started due to this, and this has had a huge positive impact on the people. It has tried to create a health Aboriginal and Torres Islander people (Mahoney, 2014).
25. An ECEC service has to be drafted by the affected people and secondly implemented according to the directions of the affected people. EYLF has integrated feedback from processes of consultation. Early childhood services execute or implement their own services (Lazzari and Vandenbroeck, 2012).
26. In the National Quality Standards, there is the standard of staffing requirements. This requirement requires cultural competence to undertake. It is explicit that for an employer to consider hiring someone from a different cultural background, they must be culturally competent (Lazzari and Vandenbroeck, 2012).
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