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"For people who are not affected by race, it’s really hard for them to get it": Meet the couples navigating interracial relationships and dating in Australia
About a third of all registered marriages in Australia are intercultural. Experts say the increase in such relationships in Australia, marriage or otherwise, reflects a sense of social cohesion and acceptance more broadly. But interracial marriage was once frowned upon and restricted by the state. This, coupled with an added social pressure, sought to discourage people from engaging in intercultural relationships. This episode of Who we are explores the history of interracial relationships in Australia, and their associated triumphs and challenges. Hannah Kwon chats with Chinese-born writer An...
Identity is nuanced and complex, and can mean different things to different people. This is illustrated in the changing face of multicultural Australia, home to one of the world's oldest continuous cultures, and over seven million people born overseas. But numbers only go so far. In this SBS News podcast, Hannah Kwon seeks to understand what identity means in Australia today through the lens of relationships, media representation, language and code switching. Hear from writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law on Asian-Australian media representation, the Scanlon Foundation's Trish Prentic...
How useful are bureaucratic labels often used by government bureaucracies to define cultural identity in Australia? Particularly, as 40 percent of the Australian population does not have an Anglo-Celtic ancestry.
The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s 2021 Mapping Social Cohesion Report found that while concern about the pandemic ebbs and flows, COVID has not shaken the nation’s social cohesion.