Frank wrote on Jan 14^th, 2018 at 6:12pm:


It surrounds you, Soren.   It surrounds you.  You might live a Danish culture in your home or your workplace but the rest of Australia is a Multicultural society.   Tsk, tsk.  Time to join the Zeitgeist, little boy - get with the rest of Australian society, 85% of which support Multiculturalism.   

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The speech that followed, however, may have surprised supporters of her policies:

"Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a ‘life lie,’

” or a sham, she said, before adding that Germany may be reaching its limits in terms of accepting more refugees. "The challenge is immense," she said. "We want and we will reduce the number of refugees noticeably."

Although those remarks may seem uncharacteristic of Merkel, she probably would insist that she was not contradicting herself. In fact, she was only repeating a sentiment she first voiced several years ago when she said multiculturalism in Germany had "utterly failed."

"Of course the tendency had been to say, 'Let's adopt the multicultural concept and live happily side by side, and be happy to be living with each other.' But this concept has failed, and failed utterly," she said in 2010.

Multiculturalism usually has a positive connotation, but to Merkel it symbolizes the emergence of isolated societies within Germany — and ultimately a failure of assimilating immigrants. Her policy toward the issue is supposed to avoid the creation of suburbs such as the areas around Paris, for instance, where young immigrants are isolated from the rest of society.

A MAJORITY of Australian voters believe the country is full and almost half support a partial ban on Muslim immigration, a new survey has revealed.

In a blow for official multiculturalism, it found that just over 50 per cent of voters agree that Australia has changed beyond recognition and “sometimes feels like a foreign country”.

The TAPRI survey, to be released on Thursday, was done in July-August and based on a random national sample of 2067 voters from an online panel of 300,000 people run by The Online Research Institute.

It found that with big majorities believing that population growth was putting “a lot of pressure” on hospitals, roads, affordable housing and jobs.



On Muslim immigration, a quarter opposed a ban and 27 per cent neither supported or opposed it.

While Coalition and One Nation voters were more likely to voice concerns over migration and cultural diversity, substantial minorities of ALP voters had similar views.

In their report on the data, TAPRI researchers Dr Katharine Betts and Dr Bob Birrell said that

The authors said the nation’s political and economic elites had relied on the foundation’s consistent reports that most Australians supported their migration and multicultural policies, partly because Australia had been insulated from the economic shocks suffered by some other Western countries.

“(But) Australian voters’ concern about immigration levels and ethnic diversity does not derive from economic adversity,” the TAPRI report said.