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Analysis: Are Australians anti-Asian? Or is it just politics?

By Anna Watanabe Thu, Apr 19, 2012 9:47PM UTC View Comments

Two months ago, the Australian Minister of Immigration Chris Bowen made an address to the Sydney Institute describing what he called the ‘genius of multiculturalism’ within Australian society. In his speech, he outlined three aspects of this so-called ‘genius’: respect for Australian values; citizenship-centred multiculturalism; and political bipartisanship. Minister Bowen, like many Australians prides our...

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Australia Day focuses on Aborigines, refugees

By Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon Thu, Jan 26, 2012 12:05PM UTC View Comments

Prime Minister Julia Gillard poses with Geoffrey Rush

This year’s Australia Day has seen both old and new issues come under the spotlight, including indigenous culture, asylum-seekers, gay marriage, and climate change. These issues, however, cannot be solely discussed through political means but through the arts. Academy-award winning actor Geoffrey Rush was named the 2012 Australian of the Year in a ceremony at the...

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SKorea: Student understanding of multiculturalism lacking

By Nathan Schwartzman Thu, Aug 04, 2011 7:58AM UTC View Comments

Original article in Korean is at this link. 7 out of 10 teenagers in our country have never received any education related to multiculturalism, a study has found. Jeong Hye-won, a social studies major in the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies’ graduate education program, has written a just-published dissertation titled “Analysis of Teenagers’ Understanding of...

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SKorea: Race discrimination cases doubled in six years

By Nathan Schwartzman Mon, Aug 01, 2011 10:36AM UTC View Comments

The National Human Rights Commission has been seeing an increased number of allegations of race discrimination, although the absolute numbers remain fairly low. In related news, the Chosun Ilbo reports (in Korean) that an estimated 800,000 foreigners, including illegal immigrants, are not enrolled in the national health insurance system and lack other insurance as well,...

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SKorea: Rising share of kids with foreign parents

By Nathan Schwartzman Sat, Jul 30, 2011 2:14AM UTC View Comments

This article is a little confusing in that the statistics seem to lump together foreign citizens who happen to be kids with actual Korean citizens who happen to have a foreign parent. Either way, you can see that they are making up a larger share of the child population every year. A study has found...

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