The Australian perception through defining the identity of Asia/Asians and Australia/Australians has been significantly shaped by the influence of Asia. The implications of ideas of citizenship and migration, the growth of the Asian’s economy, the equality and the multiculturalism of Australia directly impacts on what Australia in Asia is comprised of. This essay will demonstrate the influence of Asia on Australia.
At first, it is needed to know how to identify someone. For that, the ideological characteristics of cultural, religious and ethnicity traits correspond to the image that aims to identify Asians and Australians, however the multiculturalism of Australia has integrated concepts of population, this in turn to extend what identifies people to be Asian or Australian, demonstrating that classifying a person must be based on the values and laws that the person upholds. Australia's multicultural background has conflicted what displays the identity of a person and what actually creates the identity. This idea is also found with the term citizenship.
Citizenship and migration are part of the foundation of Australia's multicultural stature. “In Australia the rise of multiculturalism has been accomplished by a declining stress on citizenship.” (Milner, 1996, pg251) Citizenship give people the rights to vote, have permanent residency, work and several more rights, however they have to obey the laws and regulations. Today, migrants are able to work and have legal rights, refugees look for security and asylum seekers come to be harbored . All of which have made the diverse society of today, yet for all this to be possible the 'White Australian Policy' had to be abolished. Indeed after the Second World War, this policy created racism and discrimination of non-Caucasian people. This abolishment permitted others races to settle in Australia. Australia set up different policies and legislations to stop discrimination, racism and sexism, to