BOOK REVIEW: GABRIELLA T. ESPAK, "SEMINAL YEARS. FEDERAL MULTICULTURAL POLICIES AND THE POLITICS OF INDIGENEITY IN CANADA AND AUSTRALIA BETWEEN 1988-1992", DEBRECEN: DEBRECEN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020, 170 P.

Abstract

As any common sense person knows all too well there is no pure society from the ethnic, religious, or cultural point of view. The problem is, on one hand, to manage this diversity in such a way as to give as few frustrations as possible to all the members of society, on the other hand, to establish the steps that turn principles from theoretical frames into guiding doctrines in the social, political, and cultural practice. In this context, the book of Gabriella T. Espak brings a very challenging comparison. The intellectual territory on which the Hungarian scholar treads is quite interesting and thought provoking. Comparisons between Canada and Australia, two Anglophone countries, have already been made by such researchers as Louis Harts, Freda Hawkins, Lisa Chiton or Shurlee Swain and Margot Hillel.