Australia Day What makes us proud

Barnsey

Yep, as those helped said, "they took us as we were, buddhist, Christian.. they didn't care, they accepted us and made us welcome..."

Huh? All the people in the show, many of whom came here with nothing but a string bag, were successful..leading good lives, one they met while working in a factory, had gone on to become a hairdressor, then own a Vietnamese restuarant.

That's not forming an enclave, but taking what they know from their own culture and offering it to others, to the mutual benefit of both. It shows how multiculturalism is something WAY BEYOND mere 'tolerance' .. it's SHARING the best we have to offer each other!

I really don't understand people like you who want to make something ugly out of something so positive.

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"There is a fundamental distinction between multicultural and Multiculturalism, which racists constantly and deliberately confuse.

A society is multicultural if it has more than one culture being practised within that society.

'Multicultural - A society which embraces a number of minority cultures' - Macquarie Dictionary

Multiculturalism is two things, the -ISM indicates that it is a set of beliefs or ideas about multiculture, ie a recognition of multicultural REALITY, an acceptance of it, a celebration of it. But it is ALSO a set of government policies to formalize that recognition, acceptance and celebration! Thus the Howard government has a Department which documents the positive economic social and foreign policy benefits from having a successful, open, democratic multicultural society."

- fasgnadh

come from different cultures, and live different lives that could be categorised into groups if you chose to do so.

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- Rev. Headjob, liar and thief demonstrating the deliberate confusion.

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