mozzaok
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Forget "Australian", values, what they mean to say, but are afraid to insult silly religious folk, is CIVILISED values.
In a modern, civilised, democratic society we promote shared values of equality, compassion, and decency. All the demands that we respect the cultural choices of each new wave of migrants weakens our own cultural identity. It is about time that we stopped equivocating that all choices are valid in the context of a persons cultural heritage, they most certainly are not. It is time to stand up and proudly demand that all who come to seek to make Australia their home, also accept and adopt our cultural values. Leave "cow" dowries in Africa, let young people marry for love, and not for how much the groom is willing to pay the brides family. Just one of the milder cultural practices that migrant groups should jettison when they choose to live here. Ugly attitudes that are part of such behaviour that reduces women and children to the status of property, should have no place in modern "Australian" values. The list of similar behaviours is long, and they all need to be examined, and any that do not meet our standards of protecting the freedoms of individuals, should be shunned.
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