Indeed, great post Musician.
However, and needless to say, I voted in the negative.
I doubt very much that 9 out of 10 people understand the full implications of what 'multiculturalism' means. 9 out of 10 think it's about ethnic food, and racial appearance.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
After 11 years in office, John Howard's last act as prime minister before being defeated in his own Bennelong electorate by the 'Asian Vote' ~ was to abolish 'Multiculturalism' as Australia's official policy.
He had come to recognise the dark side of 'multiculturalism'. Soccer riots in which the Riot Police have to keep Australian-born ethnics from brawling with one another. So bad that foreign national flags had to be banned from these games.
Second generation immigrants yelling support for visiting tennis players competing against the Australian players.
Australian-born Indians explaining to A Current Affairs why they have formed a cheer squad for visiting subcontinental cricketing teams ... (They share the same racial appearance. They don't look like Anglos).
Halal food being sneaked into everywhere, whether the 97% non-Muslim Australian majority like it or not.
No pork products to be served on Australian airlines.
Generational Australians getting squeezed out of their inner-city suburbs to make room for ethnocentric ghettoes.
etc etc
If you seriously want to understand the negative implications of 'multiculturalism', then go no further than a review of the British experience since mass non-discriminatory immigration began in the early 50's.
Poll after poll shows that the indigenous Britisher is not happy with having foreigners flooded into his homeland like a breached dyke.
Quote:We've done work here which shows that people, frankly, when there aren't other pressures, like to live within a comfort zone which is defined by racial sameness.
"People feel happier if they're with people who are like themselves.
Quote:the chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips accepts that people are happier if they are with people like themselves.
Quote: Trevor Phillips believes we saw it all too clearly in the disturbances in the Lozells area of Birmingham in the Summer of 2005.
A tight-knit Asian community came into conflict with a tight-knit black community because, Phillips argues, the ethnicity that binds each community together is stronger than the links between them.
"You have two communities who more or less faced each other across a single road. They are communities which have high levels of internal bonding.
What this is all admitting to is that it was a betrayal of the indigenous Brit to flood the country with people who were racially, religiously, and culturally alien to them.
Hence, today's cities and towns in the UK are a patchwork quilt of ethnic ghettoes where non-assimilation with the host people has become a matter of ethnic pride and tradition.
The Brits were royally screwed over by a succession of governments since the early 50's.i
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