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By the 1980s, migrants from all over the world had settled in Australia. Immigration rates peaked in 1988 when 254,000 people arrived in Australia. The nation’s approach to new migrants since the 1970s has been one of ‘multiculturalism’.
This meant that Australian society embraced various cultural groups, with their distinct languages, religions, and traditions and granted them equal status. This was in contrast to the previous policy of ‘assimilation’, which stipulated that migrants should abandon their cultures and languages and ‘blend in’ to the existing population.
Multiculturalism challenged traditional ideas about what it meant to be an Australian. Large numbers of migrants from places like Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South America and Africa filtered into Australia. Most people found that migrants enriched the Australian experience, enabling people to share cultural traditions like music, food and religion.
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