Culture is the response of the community of a species to its environment, encompassing behaviour and rituals that give meaning to its values, and motivate the group to survive. In man, cultural attributes include dance, music, religion, language and art.
We need to organise our communities to support each other, and develop a lifestyle culture that minimises energy consumption. At the same time, we can enhance the community wellness, but within the earth's population constraints. Wellness can be measured as the health, wealth and education of a society.
Australia has developed as a multicultural society, largely tolerant and respectful of its diversity, and it is interesting to define what we mean to be an "Australian". Even Aborignal people, who were here for over 60,000 years migrated from another land. They have been great custodians of the land, protecting bush-tucker regions and wild fauna as they traded with adjoining tribes.
Australia has a great asset with its tremendous diversity of cultures that can provide great food variety, building styles, transport preferences, health remedies, and community building elements such as music, dance, religion and art. As such we should fight racism in all its forms.
One unifying aspect of being an Australian is that the official language is English, although many are priveliged to speak more than one language. Another is our democratic rights, but these have been recently eroded with severe security laws.
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about what elements and level of lifestyle culture we should adopt for sustainability, and how we can achieve this, given the finite resources of the earth eg. higher density living to encourage more communal support activities, more bush-tucker eg. eating kangaroo meat (Ch22, pp547) where its production has a much lower greenhouse gas that beef cattle.
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