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I mean technically Ireland would be the closest...but since that is not a choice,
I picked Canada...but a lot of the United States (the North East - the New England area esp.) could apply.
Norway or Iceland?!?! Huh?
Diversity matters because the more diverse a population is, the less realistic it is to say that are ‘similar’ to any particular national stereotype. And of course that diversity also directly impacts on the the range of views, attitudes and behaviour of a society.
It’s not only recent migration that matter, but the accumulated influence of past migration waves as well. Countries like Australia have seen wave after wave of immigration from across the globe, and those influences all accumulate. In Australia’s case, 28% of the population was born elsewhere (for Canada its about 21%), the vast majority from countries other than the UK. That number again have one or more migrants parents. The remainder of the population largely trace their ancestry to other waves of migration over the last two centuries (the UK, the Irish particularly after the potato famine, Germans, ‘Afghans’, Chinese, Japanese, ethnic Greeks from the Ottoman empire, WWII refugees from eastern Europe. etc ).
Trade and the movement of people for holidays/vacations matter, because its those interactions and impacts that also form and shape people’s views of the world, attitudes and behaviours. Distance significantly shapes both these. Australia’s most popular recreational travel destinations are East Asia, the US, New Zealand and Canada. Australia’s trade is largely with other pacific rim countries. A lot of Australians are pretty ‘switched onto’ Asian culture.
The scale of a nation and its geographic diversity matter too, because they shape the day to day realities of life that underpin views, attitudes and behaviours. Countries like the UK and Ireland are well, tiny and ‘monochrome’ compared to Australia, Canada etc, If you live in a remote part of the Northern Territory, your day to day life is vastly different than if you live in a city in the South. People in Melbourne don't need to worry about cyclones, crocodiles, wild water buffalo or tropical diseases carried by mosquitoes and have help close at hand if needed, so they are a lot less ‘survivalist’ in mentality.
Indigenous populations add to a nation's diversity, and influence its character and views through the impacts of a shared history, with is positive and negative moments. That impacts through direct person to person contact, understanding of ingenious culture and issues, or simply aspects of indigenous culture that have been incorporated into the mainstream or are routinely acknowledged by wider society. About 4% of Australia’s population identify as either Torres Strait Islander, Mainland Aboriginal or Tasmanian Aboriginal. More have a degree of indigenous ancestry, even if they don’t identify as indigenous or list is as one of their two ancestries in a census.
This is a great example of gobbledygook.
You're overstating your points. How diverse is the Australian political class I wonder? Diversity doesn't dramatically change the core culture in fact those diverse groups adapt to their adoptive culture through the generations.
I'm surprised that so many people have opted for Australia. A lot of Brits emigrate to the country expecting it to essentially be Britain in the sun, and then a substantial number return because they discovered that it was a lot different to what they had expected. They've earned themselves the nickname "Boomerang Brits".
The last four on the list share about the same amount of similarity. Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States are the children of the UK, the Anglo family of nations will always have language and culture as a bond between them. None of the other nations on the list can come close, the old colonies will always be the closest.
I'm surprised that the US got more votes than Canada. While I don't think either is really close to UK in many respects, and are far closer to each other, Canada does have far more British influence that is still seen. AFAIK the majority of people of European descent in the US actually have German ancestry.
Haven't been to NZ but would expect it to have even more "British" feel.
The US and the UK indeed have very close ties politically and culturally, but they are still very dissimilar countries.
AFAIK the majority of people of European descent in the US actually have German ancestry.
That's only because a significant majority of Americans of British descent only mark "American" on the census form rather than any hyphenated description like people descended from almost every other nation do.
You're overstating your points. How diverse is the Australian political class I wonder? Diversity doesn't dramatically change the core culture in fact those diverse groups adapt to their adoptive culture through the generations.
I'm guessing you failed the last diversity awareness program where you work....
Seriously, though, have you ever even been to Australia, Canada or the US for any length of time?
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Diversity doesn't dramatically change the core culture in fact those diverse groups adapt to their adoptive culture through the generations.
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