Cultural Profile Assignment

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Michelle Westwood | [Course Title] | [Date] Michelle Westwood | [Course Title] | [Date] [Report Title] [Report Subtitle] [Report Title] [Report Subtitle] Task A: Cultural profile For this task you will need to choose a cultural group to research and submit a written assessment using a report format (with headings) to set out your work. Choose a client or workplace colleague or the cultural group in your local community other than mainstream Australian. For example: Haberfield in NSW has a prominently Italian cultural group; Hahndorf in SA was settled by German migrants in 1900s; Fitzroy Crossing in WA has an Aboriginal cultural group. Develop the cultural profile based on your research and address the following questions. These points…show more content…
Reconciliation has played a vital role in helping to close the gap to create understanding and to build strong relationships within a community. 2. Describe at least five (5) cultural stereotypes or labels attached to people from this cultural group. Discuss the accuracy of these labels based on your research? Aboriginal people are free-loaders who expect hand-outs. This is a big misconception that many have. What many people believe as “Hand-outs”, Indigenous people regard as Treaty Rights? Treaty Rights were founded many years ago to resolve the ongoing between settlers and Indigenous people. In present day Treaty Rights are: Tax Exemption, free education; health and medical services, land rights, land payments, annuities and special benefits. The Treaty Rights were established in exchange for the Indigenous people sharing the land. Indigenous peoples are primitive and…show more content…
I was raised in a traditional Australian family where it was my father, mother, younger sister and brother. I grew up in a remote and rural area of central NSW, 6 hrs. west of Sydney, the public education was good both primary and high school. Both I and my siblings had the opportunity to play, explore in the wide open area of the family farm and even in town we were safe to walk the streets, play out in the open until dark. My ancestors emigrated from England and my heritage is that of Scottish, English, and aboriginality. My father is the oldest from a family of 2 boys, since my father was the oldest he was like a second father, he was always out his father with the farm and at the age of 12 was sent out to work at a chook farm. My mother being the middle child of seven brothers and sisters, my mother had to take her place in the care of the house work. Both grew in the same type of family and both knew what it took to work hard to get what they wanted in life. When I was growing up I was never given all the things that I wanted, my parents taught me that I had to work had if I wanted anything, that I only got what I needed not what I wanted. From a young age my parents would make me do chores around the house inside and out along with my siblings and return we would get pocket money at the end of
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