The_Barnacle wrote on Dec 17
th, 2017 at 10:09am:
What were the questions in the poll?
Certainly importing mass groups of Third Worlders enriches the society in many ways - what would we do without their third world standards and such? Can't argue that it is a much more diversified society than it once was, though it certainly stops short of the absolute requirement for effective assimilation.
Bringing the Italians was fine - they were a wonderful people to have a war with, said one British general, and brought some interesting cuisine etc. Many refugees from Greece, which had a very nasty civil war, and from battered European countries certainly brought some interesting ideas to the table.
Somewhere along the way it started to go wrong... I don't have much argument with the Asians as such - they are a hard working group in the main, though reclusive a bit much and I do have an issue with the organised crime groups, and I'm not totally convinced about the genuine academic merit of simple rote learning to the max..... also our school system has some drawbacks, such as 'Asian culture' strands etc.... we don't have an Aussie culture strand (mate)..... as for the Lebs, the Christians are pretty all right in the main, but the others... hmmmmm.... I've had Christian Leb neighbours and worked with some and they were westernised and civilised - my lawyer is a CL - but my dealing with Muslim Lebs have always been characterised by hot-headed, big-mouthed abuse on their part....
Immigration has its faults as the ONLY sustainer of 'economic growth for its own sake' - this being the ONLY thing our current economic mode has going for it - and in its current mix, which almost totally excludes the kind of people most likely to assimilate and brings in those who will remain an enclave within this society and will bring all their social evils with them, it is a clear failure.
I'm afraid that at the end of the day there is a limit to 'multi-culturalism' and a need to return to some form of social homegeneity. This nation simply cannot afford, with its limited population, to be the guinea pig for social moves to 'equalise' us with the poorest in the world.