1. Multiculaturalism in Australia
While the preference at that time was for British migrants, others were accepted on the understanding that they should shed their cultures and languages and be assimilated into the host population so that they would rapidly become indistinguishable from it. ... The test was given to people who were seen as "unsuitable" and it required the migrant to write down a fifty word passage dictated in any obscure European language. ... These polices recognised that large numbers of migrants, especially those whose first language was not English, experienced hardships as they settled in Australia, and r...
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