There is no crisis, nor will there be. We have had 100 years of existance as a nation, held together by loyalties that most of us subscribed to.
The unity that was ours has been disipated and the symbols of our national security are being and-or have been under attack. Thus some people will always fear, and thus hate, and thus fight. If it isn't cultural friction it will be something else like skin color.
As the American Civil War shows us, we have enjoyed a society and a peace in this country that far surpbutted what the Americans had achieved. This was achieved because we managed to hold on to our culture and traditions longer due to an abiding loyalty in our British systems of govt. and our monarchy. (At least until 1960s or 1970's)
Now there will always be politicians who seek to destroy our unity by destroying our national symbols and trying to replace them with what they see as more morally correct symbols. And there will always be politicians who will seek to destroy our most treasured symbols as a means to gain wealth and power.
The last wave of immigrants will always be an offense to our nationhood because of the lack of trust between the ruled and the rulers, and politicians who have a strong connection with the people they govern will seek to mollify the electorate rather than strictly apply a set of predefined rules to suppress them.
Now young immigrants who see this offence will rebel llike any young person of any ethnicity. They too have causes that need expressing. They will gather in ethnic tribes for physical and cultural protection and if needs be fight, just like our youth do.
There are two groups driving this poo; the left liberal effeminate chardonay drinkers who see an opportunity to despise the lower clbuttes they have so recently deserted - represented by people like Fasgnadh and Barry Jones and Rifty. ; the extreme left wing of politics represented by the Greens and groups alligned under the name of communists. These two groups have one thing in common; a lack of courage to find the loyalty needed to sustain what was once and still can be a great country.
-- RodneyK "To destroy a people you must first sever their roots." -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
