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Frank
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Brian Ross wrote on Dec 9 th, 2017 at 10:03pm: Frank wrote on Dec 9 th, 2017 at 8:35pm: Brian Ross wrote on Dec 8 th, 2017 at 6:20pm: Frank wrote on Dec 8 th, 2017 at 6:07pm: Brian Ross wrote on Dec 8 th, 2017 at 5:53pm: What was Western culture missing that has been corrected and improved by Muslims, Hindus, Chinese, Africans? Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Tsk, tsk. Poor, poor, Soren. You seem to be, on one hand, assuming that Multiculturalism is about correcting a fault or faults in Western culture, while on the other hand, you're claiming that it allows different cultures to never interact with one another. I do wish you'd make your mind up and be consistent in your views. It'd make life just so much easier, you realise?  Multiculturalism allows all cultures to co-exist, side-by-side, Soren. They are allowed to intermix at the same time as well. They compliment one another. Some people might like Confucianism and Buddhism with their Lebanese or Indian or Gasp! Even Danish food. Some people like Catholicism's religiosity to go with their Vietnamese dress. Some others might like African food to go with their Danish culture. It's all mixed up, in one giant Multicultural, cosmopolitan culture. Time you got onboard, Soren. Otherwise you are going to be left ever further behind as the rest of the Australian society embraces Multiculturalism. What have YOU incorporated in your life from the millions of Chinese, Vietnamese, Muslim Arab, Indian immigrants' cultures, Bwian? What positive improvements have these cultures made you YOUR life, Bwian? I have learnt Buddhist regard for all life. I have learnt Confucianism's honouring of our elders and ancestors. I have learnt the Arabic ideas of hospitality. I have learnt how to cook a mean Vietnamese/Indian style of curry. They have learnt from me, how to be a larriken, how to have fun, how to study and how to protest about things which are wrong, Soren. To you, it must always be in one direction when in reality the learning process, the assimilation is a two way street. We all learn from one another. I have learnt to appreciate Italian/Greek/French/Danish/German/Hungarian/Turkish/Lebanese/Iraqi/Iranian/Paki stani/Indian/Bangladeshi/Sri Lankan/Malaysia/Chinese/Vietnamese/Japanese/Korean styles of cooking and cuisine, Soren. I have taught people how to do a fine BBQ, how to appreciate fine wines and beers. You focus too much on how inferior all those cultures are, yet you do not appreciate if they are inferior, then they can learn from your and you're representation of your supposedly superior culture. If it is learning how to hate, denigrate and disparage people, that is. Quote:Western culture, being big on freedom, is rich and fascinating and diverse. Third world superstitions and mad and evil cultural practices do not enhance it at all. They degrade it. Do they? And why cannot they learn those aspects and respect them, Soren? Different cultures for different people in different environments. Simples, really. You don't need to import millions of exotic people to learn about their culture's. You can visit their countries, you can visit a library. And I don't see the Indians, Africans, Arabs and Chinese intermixing with each other.
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