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Question: Discuss about the Ecological Systems Theory Frame Quantitative. Answer: Introduction: The given case study is about Sam who did not really understand what his culture meant. Eventually he picked up bits and pieces to form a whole idea about the fact that culture is in a lot of things and it is not just in the language one speaks, or the clothes they wear or the food they eat. Culture does not exclude these factors; however, these are not the only dimensions describing a culture. He eventually realized that culture is in the customs, in the ideas, social behaviours and group behaviours, for instance family. Further on he understands that as important as it is to be proud of ones own cultural behaviour, It is also essential to respect the other diverse cultures, their beliefs and values, their social behaviour and everything that comes with them. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, an American psychologist, the life of a human being consists of interactions among a number of ecological systems that forms since the birth of a child (Neal and Neal 2013). According to his theory, a child is enmeshed in a number of ecosystems starting from the most intimate ecosystem, that is, home, moving towards, the school, and towards expanded ecosystems like that of cultures and society. According to him, the various ecosystems were the Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem and the Chronosystem (Onwuegbuzie, Collins and Frels 2013). In the present case, Sams Microsystem or his immediate family who were there while growing up were his parents. Although he was born and brought up in Melbourne, Australia, His parents originally came from England. Sams Mesosystem included his two older brothers who lived apart from the parents in a shared apartment which was closer to their Universities. This is a norm that happens in most Aussie families where the children move out after reaching a certain age. His parents taught him how it is essential to be able to respect diversity. The fact that Sams origin was from England, yet they were living in Australia and living a comfortable life must have been the Exosystem for him. Sams Macrosystem consisted of embracing all sorts of diversity although his family did not have any specific religious beliefs, however they did celebrate common holidays like Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and also had big birthday parties. Therefore, Sam understands the true meaning of his cultural ident ity, that it is the amalgamation of all the mentioned factors. Colonisation The following piece is about the colonisation that took place in Australia by the British due to which the aboriginal Australians had to face a number of hardships. The Aboriginals of Australia live in harmony for fifty thousand years, where they were very close to their families, respected their elders, worked hard to hunt and gather food, and had a varied and rich culture of music, dance and art. They were independent and resourceful. However the British invade their land in the year 1788, and found that it would be difficult to colonize in presence of the huge population of the aboriginal Australians. The British viewed them as lowly and treated them as slaves, restricted their lands, destroyed all of their weapons which in turn caused the Australian natives to starve. The British introduced various domestic animals like rabbits, goats, sheep, which caused a breakout of innumerable diseases, thereby affecting the native population even more. The British did not just stop here; they figured that the native culture would stop spreading if the children were reared differently, with different cultures and sets of values. In order to achieve this goal, they separated about 100,000 native children from their families to be raised into British families. This was enough cause for trauma to both the children and the parents. The children however were not treated as equals to the British children and had to go through acute discrimination, physical and mental abuse in addition to stress of adopting new cultural identities management. These atrocities caused the native people to be devoid of their children, without any assurance of them being returned. All the atrocities that the Aboriginal Australians had to go through, from losing their lands to their children, most of the population fell deep into depression and involved themselves in drugs and alcohol to cope with the situation The human Rights Commission made inquiry about these devastating practices in 1990 and realized the devastating effects that the British invasion had caused. Ten years after the report, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a National Apology to the natives in 2008. References Neal, J.W. and Neal, Z.P., 2013. Nested or networked? Future directions for ecological systems theory. Social Development, 22(4), pp.722-737. Onwuegbuzie, A.J., Collins, K.M. and Frels, R.K., 2013. Foreword: Using Bronfenbrenners ecological systems theory to frame quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research. International journal of multiple research approaches, 7(1), pp.2-8.