rhino wrote on May 24
th, 2015 at 12:08am:
Brian Ross wrote on May 23
rd, 2015 at 11:41pm:
How do you define "assimilation"?
Personally, theres a number of things i define it by. One would be when the second generation intermarries, another would be when they stop practising cultural proclivities which are abhhorent to our culture. I could go on but its quite clear to me that these middle eastern Muslims have no intention of assimilating and treat Australia as a cash cow.
Their third and greater generations intermarry, Rhino. As to what cultural practices do you find so abhorrent that you cannot even tolerate the knowledge they are being practised? What harm do do they do to others? We don't hear you going off about the Christians/Jews/Hindus/Buddhists who practise similar "cultural practises", nor the Australians like yourself who do them as well. So, why Muslims of all people? Is it because of the media attention which is lacking from all the other groups?
Quote: Quote:All they want to do is be left alone to live their lives as they see fit, Rhino, in exactly the same way you do.
Perhaps, but thats not the point, they have come to my country and need to fit in, not the other way around.
How have they failed to "fit in", exactly? Wearing Hijabs? Orthodox Jews and Christians wear veils over their heads. Burqa? A tiny minority no different to what Christian nuns often wore before Vatican II. Who cares? I don't. Most other Australians don't either. Who are you to determine what they can or cannot wear?
Quote: Quote:So they dress differently, they worship a different religion, who cares? Some of their numbers act like Wallies and try and kill other people but then, we've had Armenians, Serbs, Croats, Ananda Marga, etc. all do that in the past.
Sure, they also cut their female childrens clit out and kill their wives and female children if they dont obey.
Those are criminal offences and rarely, if ever occur in Australian jurisdictions, Rhino. If you're aware of such offences occurring, report them to the Police! Why focus on what a tiny minority do and brand the overwhelming, law-abiding, majority with their offences?
Quote: You cant be serious, we have never had anything like the magnitude of the problems with these people that we have had with any other ethnic group.
Not mixed much outside your White, Anglo-Saxon/Celtic cultural group, have you, Rhino? I've been aware of worse things occurring between different Italian groups, Yugoslav groups, Greek groups, etc., etc. Yet you only ever pick on Muslims. Why? That media spotlight telling you what you should be outraged over again?
Quote:Do you know anything about middle eastern culture and what is occurring in this country amongst these people?
I know a great deal (but I admit not nearly enough) about Middle-Eastern culture. Do you?
I note we've skipped over the questions I asked, Rhino. You demand something but fail dismally to define it and how it should be measured. Why? Was it too hard to be objective about this issue?