JC Denton wrote on Feb 12
th, 2018 at 5:26am:
it also makes you wonder why supposedly 85% of australians would support multiculturalism. i think a lot of people just associate it with superficial stuff like chinese new year festivals and more ethnic restaurants around the place, none of which really necessitate an explicit multicultural policy to have (though obviously 'multiculturalism' does facilitiate them). when it comes to actually interacting with ethnics many of that 85% wouldn't be anywhere near as supportive, at least implicitly.
Precisely. It depends on how you frame the question.
'Do you support multiculturalism or would you hunt down all the efniks and deport the lot, pronto' would produce a high level of support. Also, without being clear what exactly is meant by multiculturalism and what supporting it entails, it is hard to know what the '85% supports it' really means.
Asking 'Do you think you can completely transform the demographic make up of Australia and still recognise it as Australia in 50 years time?' would produce a completely different response from the same people. Replacing English speaking white Australians with Indians, Chinese, Muslim Arabs and Pakistanis and Africans who want to stay Indian, Muslim, African means the country will be transformed beyond recognition.
I have never heard anyone argue that Australia will be improved if it becomes more like India, Pakistan, Iran or Sudan or China and Vietnam. No doubt Bwian et al will now tell us such things.
Tell us, Bwian, what was the actual question about supporting multiculturalism to which 85% of Australians answered affirmatively?
Some other questions, also very much worth asking, are from a Granuiad review of Caldwell's book, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe:
Can you have the same Europe with different people?
Why did mass immigration happen when so few people actually wanted it?
Immigrants want a better life but how many of them want a European life?
Why is minority ethnic pride a virtue and European nationalism a sickness?
Is political correctness just fear masquerading as tolerance?
You can substitute Australia for Europe and the questions still stand.