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Kwintessential. (n.d). Country Profiles. Retrieved from: http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/country-profiles.html

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At Kwintessential we don't just love languages, we love to learn about the world and the cultures and countries those languages are spoken in. Our country guides cover everything from etiquette, to local customs, culture and how to conduct business.

So whether you want to know what gift to give when you go for dinner in South Korea or how to conduct a successful business meeting in Brazil we have the guide for you.

If there is a country you are keen to know more about and it is not here just let us know and we will add it to our list to research for you.

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At Kwintessential we don't just love languages, we love to learn about the world and the cultures and countries those languages are spoken in. Our country guides cover everything from etiquette, to local customs, culture and how to conduct business.

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Chinese Museum. (n.d.). Chinese Museum. Retrieved from: http://www.chinesemuseum.com.au/

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Museum Victoria. (n.d). Immigration Museum. Retrieved from: http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/

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Museum Victoria. (2013). Talking Difference. Retrieved from: http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/discoverycentre/talking-difference/

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Programs, resource centres, suggestions for school excursions

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Department of Education and Early Childhood. (n.d.). Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre. Retrieved from: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/support/pages/lmerc.aspx

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Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre

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TEDx Talks. (2011, May 20). Reza Aslan - Unity in Diversity. [Video file]. Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLAzwgizdk

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Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities

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TEDxConejo - Reza Aslan - Unity in Diversity

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Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, tells his own story of growing up as an Iranian-born emigre and explores the common narrative of what it means to be an American, the unity that we find in our diversity.

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TEDx Talks. (2012, 26 October) Energizing Community Through Diversity: Sarah Salguera at TEDx. [Video file]. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxCvgF1-Cow

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Energizing Community Through Diversity: SarahSalguera at TEDxMuskegon

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Diversity is a buzz work in our culture today, but it can mean many things to many people. Becoming diverse can feel overwhelming at times. How do we move with common purpose towards greater diversity in our communities? In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

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TEDxTalks. (2012, 30 December). Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Culture: Saba Safdar [Video file]. Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaOJ71czAGQ

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Everything you always wanted to know about culture | Saba Safdar | TEDxGuelphU

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SABA F. SAFDAR is an Iranian-born Canadian-educated Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Guelph in Ontario. She moved to Canada in the 1980s after the Islamic revolution in Iran. She completed herundergraduate honours degree at McMaster University in Hamilton and her MA and PhD at York University in Toronto.

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TEDx Talks. (2013, 22 March). [Video file]. Multiculturalism in the Modern World: Jen Holladay. Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5rKgDOs33U

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Multiculturalism in the Modern World: Jen Holladay at TEDxDenverTeachers

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TEDx Talks. (2013, September 18). Inclusion, Exclusion, Illusion and Collusion : Helen Turnbull [Video file]. Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdV8OpXhl2g

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Reimagining Disability & Inclusive Education

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Inclusion, Exclusion, Illusion and Collusion : Helen Turnbull at TEDxDelrayBeach

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CEO of Human Facets, Helen has a 25+ year successful track record in the field of Global Inclusion. She is an internationally recognized Thought Leader on Unconscious Bias, global inclusion and diversity. As creator of "Cognizant" -- Unconscious Bias assessment tool and the "ISM Profile" for measuring Inclusion Skills gaps, her work has contributed to clients winning the Catalyst Award for Gender improvements.

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Engaging with diversity through ICT, community partnerships and the arts.

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Victoria University. (2013, June 23). Victoria University – Cultural Diversity. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD3w_nmd0Go

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This video has been produced by Kevin McDonald from Victoria University in conjunction with Visual Production Agency.

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Office of the Board of Studies, N.S.W. (n.d.) Making Multicultural Australia. Retrieved from http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au

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Making multicultural Australia | Teacher and student resources on multiculturalism, cultural diversity and tolerance

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Assisting young people, parents, teachers and community explore Australia's cultural diversity. Teaching resources on multiculturalism and strategies to promote cultural diversity and tolerance.

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Australian Government. (n.d.). Harmony Day – For Schools. Retrieved from http://www.harmony.gov.au/schools/

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Victorian Multicultural Commission. (n.d.). Multicultural Victoria. Retrieved from http://www.multicultural.vic.gov.au/

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Home - Victorian Multicultural Commission

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An annual report on the achievements of Victorian Government departments in multicultural affairs to ensure accessible services, promote the benefits of cultural diversity and strengthen social cohesion.

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New South Wales Department of Education and Communities. (n.d.). About Racism. Retrieved from http://www.racismnoway.com.au,2013

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Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly...

National Sorry Day takes place on Friday, 26 May. Sorry Day is an important time to remember the past...

National Reconciliation Week runs annually from 27 May - 3 June. The dates that bookend the week commemorate...

Refugee Week is a great opportunity to show your school welcomes refugees and the contributions they make to...

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Racism. No Way | Anti-racism education and resources for Australian schools

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Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly... National Sorry Day takes place on Friday, 26 May. Sorry Day is an important time to remember the past... National Reconciliation Week runs annually from 27 May - 3 June.

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Explorations of CALD issues, fact sheets, suggested teaching and learning activities, teacher support

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Media representations of CALD issues in society and in an educational context

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The Age. (2104, March 24). Hearing the voices of a migrant nation. The Age. Retrieved March 30 2014 from http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/hearing-the-voices-of-a-migrant-nation-20140323-35by1.html.

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Courage is needed to migrate, to leave behind all that is familiar and strike out for a new home. Australia has become a richer nation thanks to the millions of migrants who have taken this risk and chosen to settle here. In days gone by, the long journey to live in Australia meant migrants were all but severing ties with their land of birth. A letter sent by the post, or an occasional and fleeting trunk call to loved ones, was often the only contact. How times change.

The latest Monash University Mapping Social Cohesion survey, released today, offers a particular glimpse into the attitudes and experience of recent migrants to Australia. It shows how technology has transformed the lives of migrants in the past two decades, allowing them to stay closely connected, not only with relatives but also with news of their former homes. International travel, once a rare and costly treat, is also more frequent. This is not simply as a consequence of cheaper airfares but because migrants are more likely to be drawn to Australia from the countries in the immediate neighbourhood. About 45 per cent of recent arrivals from several Asian countries make a return trip each year.

But the strong connection recent migrants are able to keep to their former homelands has not come at the cost of engagement with their new one. Australian news and current affairs is popular for recent migrants in a manner little different to the rest of the population. The survey also shows migrants increasingly report a sense of identification with and belonging to Australia the longer they remain - albeit with important differences depending on where people were born.

Broadly speaking, those migrants from European countries are quicker to indicate a sense of belonging than those from Asian nations. But over time, the attachment to Australia grows stronger for Asian migrants, while changing little for those from Europe. The survey also finds that people from China and India are far quicker to adopt Australian citizenship than those from Britain or North America.

There is a direct challenge for policy makers here to understand the obstacles migrants face in their first few years in their new home. The most obvious hurdle is discrimination. A disturbingly high number of recent migrants report suffering racial or religious prejudice. Debate on the Abbott government's plan to change the racial discrimination law has centred on what this might mean for indigenous Australians, an entirely reasonable concern. But the Monash survey offers an important reminder that discrimination is insidious and runs wide in the community. The government should also note that recent migrants hold Federal Parliament and political parties in low esteem, but are more trusting of the legal system. Any change to the discrimination law must be carefully explained.

Migrants of non-English-speaking backgrounds are twice as likely to feel the sting of bigotry, but people from New Zealand are just as likely as those from Indonesia or Malaysia to nominate ''racism and discrimination'' as the attribute they least like about Australia. Indeed, the survey hints at a growing problem with New Zealand-born migrants, one that should not be tritely dismissed as the result of friendly trans-Tasman rivalry. They are least likely to judge Australians as ''caring, friendly, hospital people'' - perhaps a consequence of the clampdown more than a decade ago on New Zealanders accessing the welfare system, but a problem that warrants further examination. Only 45 per cent of New Zealanders living in Australia take out citizenship; our political leaders must ensure they do not develop into a new migrant underclass.

The challenges of multiculturalism are ever present. How we meet them is a measure of the quality of our society.

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Courage is needed to migrate, to leave behind all that is familiar and strike out for a new home. Australia has become a richer nation thanks to the millions of migrants who have taken this risk and chosen to settle here.

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Saw. L. (2012, July 26). Local and international students – who should make the first move? Meld Magazine, p. 5.

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Meld Magazine - Australia's international student news website

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IS it really that hard? Former international student Leon Saw weighs in on the debate over local and international student relations.
At the Council of International Students Australia (CISA) National Conference 2012 held recently in Brisbane, I was privy to a discussion about ways to improve interactions between local and international students.

There topic sparked many animated responses suggestions put forward from international student delegates. Many suggested grand ideas like holding multicultural fairs and bazaars in university campuses. Others lamented how such suggestions were inadequate. One delegate even went as far as to say more broad-spectrum, scorched-earth ideas should be adopted.

"These multicultural events only attract the Australian students who are already interested, not the ones who don't care and ignore international students," she said.

All this talk about international-local relations got me thinking. Maybe I had been really, really lucky. In my time as an international student, I don't remember having any issues communicating with, and eventually befriending, the local students.

I've been in Australia for almost five years now. I have studied and worked here, and am currently volunteering at Meld. In all these years, I've met Australians from various backgrounds and quite a few of them have become really good friends of mine.

One of them I met at an after-class drinks session at the university bar. We discovered we had both served in our respective countries' militaries. His stint in the Australian Defence Force included tours of duty in the Middle East, while mine in the Singapore Armed Forces was just the general two-year mandatory service. Other than his deployment to the Middle East, our respective experiences had plenty of parallels and there was mutual respect for having gone through them.

Another friendship of mine has its roots in more trivial circumstances. The person in question was a friend of a friend who found out I was organising a game of mahjong and asked to join in.

I had bigotedly assumed that he was kidding because he was Caucasian Australian and neither of his parents were of Chinese descent - but he'd apparently picked up the game from his mother who played it socially. Thus we had our first of many game nights to come. Subsequent ones would feature board games or video games instead of mahjong and would include many other people.

I absolutely understand that being in a foreign land, international students would have a tendency to identify themselves with their various nationalities and band together along those lines to tackle issues like local-international student relations.

But all you need to do is reread my examples above and you'll see there are more nuanced, grassroots approaches to solving the friendships conundrum.

Perhaps the international student delegates should consider tempering the monolithic charm offensive, which I feel just accentuates the differences between domestic and international students. Not sure what I mean? Read this story we wrote earlier in the year about the 'us' and 'them' phenomena.

While it's tempting to find safety in numbers, to identify with the cohort of students who have come from the same country, there is merit for international students to learn to find his/her identity as an individual - and maybe then, local students can, as one student to another, relate to their international student counterparts better without feeling intimidated by their international origins.

However, I would like to point out that even as individuals, some international students just won't hit it off with local students. There are a number reasons why this might happen. The local student in question could be xenophobic or just plain racist. The same could be said about the international student.

But that has nothing to do with the Australian local or international student population as a whole, and everything to do with the individual.

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Local and international students - who should make the first move?

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IS it really that hard? Former international student Leon Saw weighs in on the debate over local and international student relations. At the Council of International Students Australia (CISA) National Conference 2012 held recently in Brisbane, I was privy to a discussion about ways to improve interactions between local and international students.

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Department of Education. (2007). The ESL Handbook. Melbourne, Australia: Author

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Gay, G. (2000). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice. Multicultural Education Series, J.A. Banks, Ed. New York: Teachers College Press.

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Howard, G. (1999). We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know. New York: Teachers College Press.

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Metropolitan Centre for Urban Education. (2008). Culturally Responsive Differentiated Instructional Strategies. New York, NY: Author

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Tips and strategies for teaching in a CALD environment.

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Sawir, E., Marginson, S., Deumert, A., Nyland, C., Ramia, G.  (2007). Loneliness and International Students: An Australian Survey. Melbourne, Australia. Journal of Studies in International Education

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Mansouri, F., Jenkins, L., Morgan, L. & Taouk, M. (2009). The Impact of Racism upon the Health and Wellbeing of Young Australians. Melbourne, Australia: Foundation for Young Australians.

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Population and Migration. (2014). Retrieved March 27, 2014, from http://www.multicultural.vic.gov.au/population-and-migration

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Population & Migration - Victorian Multicultural Commission

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The Office of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship (OMAC) has produced a number of useful publications that explores Victoria's population diversity. These include: 'Victoria's Population Diversity: 2011 Census'. This is an eight page brochure presenting highlights of Victoria's diverse population with data from the 2011 Census. Limited hard copies are printed.

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Markus, A. (2013). Social Cohesion 2013: T he Scanlon Foundation Surveys 2013. Melbourne, Australia: Monash University

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Some facts and figures for insight. These will give you an idea of Victorian population demographics, which show an increasing trend towards greater diversity. We have also included some surveys that indicate the magnitude of the problems that CALD students are facing in classrooms today.

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Department of Education, Employment and Training. (2001). Guidelines for managing cultural and linguistic diversity in schools. Melbourne, Australia: Communications Division, for the Office of School Education, Department of Education, Employment and Training,

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Department of Education. (1997). Multicultural Schools Policy. Melbourne: Australia: Author

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Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs. (2008).Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians. Melbourne, Australia: Author

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Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. (2009). Education for Global and Multicultural Citizenship, A strategy for Victorian Government Schools 2009-2013 . Melbourne, Australia: Author

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Use these as a framework for developing your school or classroom CALD policy, or as a useful reference point for assessing an existing policy. Remember that these are constantly updated! However, they tend to change in terms of focus rather than content.