Poverty solution in Australia is presumed to be a contagious political issue. This is due to the kind of leadership style adopted by the leaders. According to the statistics gathered over the last five years, a big population almost a half of the Australian residents strive from hunger hence forcing the government to look for other alternative means of feeding its robust population. When Australia as nation is affected by hunger, other partnering countries or states Like the United States of America also suffer. The issue of poverty began some years back when people started scrambling for leadership in both the colonial and pre-colonial period.
Before the colonists set foot in Australia and some parts of Western Africa, there was a big cultural difference among various communities. Actually, cultures stated clashing back in the colonial period when both Australia and West Africans were forced into adoption of new cultures that are presumed to have been those of the colonists (Crettaz, 2011). Countries, which were under the same colonial power, seemed to share some of the cultural footprints left by their colonial masters.
The current Australia and West Africa were under one colonial power and this made them adopt all the European cultures that were imposed to them. Actually, it was very difficult to avoid culture adoption due to pressure from the colonial masters. They used their cultural styles in ruling both the Africans and Native Australian with the aim of spreading their culture across the world.
The colonist cultures took various understanding levels being that every community had their own cultures and traditions. The Native Australians, colonist and West Africans tend to share some of the cultural aspects though the interpretation differs from one state or country to the other. Both the West Africans and Native Australian gave a different approach to various cultural practices (Crettaz, 2011).
This is because each group attached their culturally adopted practices to their own cultures. The colonial masters in this case were the European community. Social experts have tried over the years to find the underlying information behind clash of cultures in Australia and West Africa and their results have pointed out to the issue of colonialism as one of the contributing factors.
Another factor that is presumed to have led to cultural clash is trade. Various countries or groups interacted through trade in the colonial periods hence leading to intermarriages that in turn led to cultural adoption though not fullyAustralians, who were taken to Massachusetts and some part of West Africa, triggered the trading culture hence causing cultural dilution. In most cases, Indians were used in building railways lines and those took years giving good time to cultural mix.
Though the colonial masters were the main source of cultural dilution, they were not left out and are also experiencing a clash of cultures. Their cultural clash is brought about by the Indians who were transported to their countries to work as slaves. Some of the controversies faced by the Europeans over Australian Indian began years back when some of Christopher Columbus’s captives were channeled or taken to Spanish court (Crettaz, 2011).
Years later, around 1520s, the Spanish natives started observing strange culture among the Indians living in their country. Some of the practices they observed were eating raw meat and acrobatics. Though some of these cultural practices appeared strange, they still managed to adopt given aspects being that they were entertaining. An example of the Indian cultural practice adopted in Spain is the acrobatic performance. Australia and the entire European community seemed to have been impressed with acrobats being that they are based on impossibility.
In West Africa, Australia only brought unique trade commodities that the Africans considered valuable and ideal (Rauhut, 2005). This may have also influenced or diluted the African culture in many ways though it may not be clear how this might have happened. Africans were used to woven beads made from plant seed though the Indians brought about beads made of gold, diamond and other valuable metals. Since the introduction of these commodities, Africans instead of wearing woven beads wore golden beads while performing their ceremonial cultural activities (Rauhut, 2005).
Apart from Indians in West Africa, the pilgrims in Massachusetts brought about various cultural practices that included arts and other forms or architectural designs that were later used in building houses and setting up of various ceremonial structures in the state. The pilgrims believed in art modeling and this began back in the pre-colonial period in Egypt and other Arab countries. Since Massachusetts was a trade center, there were many pilgrims accommodated by the state and tend to carry out their religious and cultural activities within the state. This has also led to cultural dilution of the Native Americans culture (Crettaz, 2011).
According to the analysis, there are three cultures in Massachusetts and this has brought the issue of a cultural clash. One of the cultures currently present in this state is the Native American culture, followed by the colonist, and finally the pilgrim culture. The three cultures are mixed together hence knowing the right cultural route seems to be a big problem.
According to the analysis seen in this paper and other relevant articles, it is evident that a cultural clash was brought about by the colonists. These cultures were imposed to the West Africans and Native Americans years back (Lodge, 2006). This has rapped pure culture hence leading to cultural difficulties. Apart from the colonists’ culture, there are many other cultural problems brought about by various communities that live in the culturally affected areas. Some of these communities are Indians and various groups of pilgrims. This cultural mess can be very difficult to curb or rectify hence people must be ready to adopt and live by them. The only solution to this mess is living a life that is free from cultural norms and traditions (Hale 2002).
Transformational leadership
For a person to be considered a transformational leader, he or she must have the ability to offer inspiration to his or her subjects or people that they lead. A typical description of a transformational leader is generally one who is in a position of motivating or inspiring individuals to doing things. A good transformational leader actually shows this capability more than any other kind of leader (Poverty in the United States, 2004).
They are the leaders that will always ask several questions when they are talking to their workers or subjects. They will usually make a very solid eye contact and even put everything at stop so that the workers know that their focus is on them. This is a kind of a leader that will make sure that he or she takes a lot of care in ensuring that their workers are taken care of and all of their needs are fulfilled (Brux, 2008).
In keeping as simple as possible the transformational leader’s concept, it is best described as one that is concerned about their worker’s feelings. A good transformational leader at times takes additional effort to finding out or establishing how their workers feel as regards the changes that are being initiated, ask about how they feel about different issues, and try to encourage them to make their own situation better (Fagan 1998).
For this kind of a leader, we find that it is all about the empowering of every worker to work harder for their individual reasons and not because this is what the organization wants. However, in this project of construction, this is not an appropriate style of leadership as it focuses on the long-term while this is a project that should be completed within a specific period of time. This style of leadership focuses on the empowering of employees, which is supposed to take a long period of time and this can only be applied in businesses that usually have time to grow (Andersen, 2007).
This kind of style of leadership, in several ways, is a form of free and democratic leadership since the whole team is usually allowed to take part in the process of decision making. The leaders in this category usually sit back and see the work done, or in other words lead from behind. They normally prefer not being in the limelight and allowing their subjects to take credit of their good (Claar, 2010).
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