The term is not decided by you.
Look, I already joined Australia with the term that I pledged because I have something that Australia needs. The term also include the multicultural society. This is what the government of Australia convinced me before I decided to join. And I never pledged that I will follow all the culture of Anglo-Saxon.
I come here to be a friend. But I'm not a refugee, and not ask for accepting of you. You can accept or not. If you accept, try to understand me like what I did. If not, just leave me alone. I don't care.
You are right, the problem is about "attitude", To avoid a separated society. My attitude is far more active and positive than you.
I learn English and try to communicate with you in English, but you just wait there and do nothing.
Do you know who am I? Do you have any evidence that you can judge me? Everything you talk about is in your dream or imagine.
Do you want me to do the similar thing? Are you getting money from centrelink every month that from my tax? If not, I'm sorry for my imagine without any evidence. But this is similar to what you said.
Quantum wrote on Nov 2
nd, 2012 at 2:22pm:
You are welcome to be a friend. But you need to realize that if you want to join a group, you have to join the group on their terms. You only have power in a negotiation if you have something the other side wants. You can only reach a compromise if one side isn't holding all the cards.
Your attitude has been that you want to join Australia, but Australian should change to make you more welcomed. You say; "Be a friend or leave me alone", but it us who gets to make that ultimatum. If you don't want to be Australian, then don't come. Don't tell the group that you want to join to either accept you or leave you alone. Instead, either be a part of the group or don't try to join in the first place.
Your entire attitude is what creates a "segregated society". Simply learning a basic level of English is not much of an effort, especially when you insist on holding to your own culture and not assimilating.
Your ignorant belief that Australia was conquered in some kind of warfare by the English, and therefore all the white people here are to blame, is also the kind of attitude that causes a "segregated society". My family are Scottish refugees from WW2. They came here, dropped the accent, and called themselves Australian. I don't call myself Scottish, nor do I have anything that would identify me with Scottish culture. But I am white, so that makes me one of the conquer by "cannon" people and not a "peaceful" Chinaman. You really reckon that kind of racist "us" and "you" language you use helps to build a non "segregated society"?
This isn't about leaning a language, this is about attitude. Australia is not a shop where money is the only thing that matters, but instead it is a society of relationships and behaviours that needs a grounding. You don't join a nation like joining a gym. Citizenship is not a piece of paper like a membership. You either are committed to being a part of the nation or you are simply here for convenience. Everything you have said so far makes it should like the latter. You are not here to be an Australian, but being an Australian citizen is good for your career at the moment. Once Australia no loner works for you or something better comes along, you will go join them. Why should anyone reach out to you with an attitude like that?