Bias_2012 wrote on Feb 17
th, 2020 at 2:03am:
Brian Ross wrote on Feb 16
th, 2020 at 7:14pm:
I am here. I am willing to listen. Lets see what you believe the alternative to Multiculturalism should be. You have the floor. Of course, if you believe in promoting discrimination, Racism, Xenophobia or anything else you cannot expect me to remain silent.
I will answer this one
The alternative is to take Govt out of culture altogether, and have just a set of guide lines for new immigrants to read and understand the differences between their old country and their new country, if there are significant differences
There should be no Govt money spent on any culture. Culture is in the same vein as religion and should be separate from the State. How much Govt money was poured into the Aussie culture when Australia was 90% Aussie culture and before mass immigration? None that I know of. It was separate from the State and Govt expenditure
Any Govt spending would be for advising new immigrants about the basic laws that apply to everyone, and tell them that those laws over-ride the laws that applied in the old country, and that any disturbing trait in their old culture will not be acceptable or tolerated in Australia, and make that well understood
OK so nothing to be spent on culture.
I can hear the screams from the culture buffs immediately. No money spent on opera or on the theatre, Afterall, they are both aspects of culture, aren't they? How about no money to be spent on sport. Sport is big in most Australian states. No money to be spent on the Olympics (not a bad thing IMO) or the Commonwealth Games or any other sporting events. You happy with that outcome?
Then there is matter of explaining to the locals the local laws which protect the newcomers from racial/ethnic abuse, from racial/ethnic hatred, you OK with that as well? Or I take it your not going to bother with that, hey? Let the new comers sink or swim, hey? How kind of you.
You seem to be putting the emphasis purely onto the newcomers in this mix, am I right? They have to behave or else they get deported back to their old homelands, right? What happens to the residents if they do wrong? Mmmm?
Seems to me that your only concerned with money, right? How dare the immigrants believe that the government that is mean to represent their wishes do so at the expense of all Australian tax payers, right? Don't they get to choose how the government spends their tax dollars? Oh, dear, now terribly well thought out it seems to me.