Australia is regarded as the smallest continent and also the largest island in the world. Among the six continents on the earth, Australia is the last one which humans discovered. However, though Australia does not have as long a history as China or India where ancient civilization started, it has a very unique and distinguished culture which others have not got. I regard Australia as a multicultural country. The term 'multicultural' is used in Australia to describe the cultural and ethnic diversity of Australia's contemporary society, which means not just one culture is accepted and only a few races can enjoy living there but everybody can have a share. Also for the Australian Government,
INTROEven though Korean and Australian culture seem to have few similar sources, as Australia is a western country and Korea is an Asian country, we do have quite a few similar cultural characteristics, which we both seem to share. In this paper I will focus on finding the similarities and differences between Korean and Australian culture, especially sport, food and humor. CONCLUSIONAustralia and Korea are not close and most people are not acquainted with the other's culture. However when we keep an eye on each other's cultural features, such as, interests, life style, character of people etc., it provides a good opportunity to not only develop our life and culture but also to help develop good relationships between the two countries.
When we see the movie "Bend it like Beckham", we might think of this film as a light style of movie which was made just for fun. In the movie, however, we could see a few special features and serious problems which are presented these days in Britain. As you guess by the title of the film, the story revolves around soccer, the national sport in Britain. However, the story also deals with minority people in Britain who has different thoughts and experience in different culture.
The Second Gulf War, which took place in April 2003, gave us a shock by showing us that no other country is able to control The United States. When the States announced that they would attack Iraq and asked the rest of the world to help them, it was one of the hot issues at that time which countries would support the States and which countries would be against the war on Iraq. Tony Blair and the parliament of Britain must have been sitting on the fence on whether to support the States or not. The war is over now and it has been estimated that Britain made the successful decision in supporting the States. However, opinions are still divided that Britain's position and their involvement in the war were justified.