The multi cult ism Menace 2150It's a good starting point, yes. Now I would like to see if Ferdie can accept that the term has more than the negative dimension...
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Monoculturalism can exist quite easily in a multiracial society.
Multiculturalism is in the process of being reversed as official government policy in several EU nations and there is no reason to buttume that there will not at least be a debate at some point of time in Australia on the merits of doing the same. Multicultural sentiments have been firmly in control in Australian society for several decades now but overseas experience shows it could all come to an end much quicker than you might realise.
That is the problem with multiculturalism - it involves *deliberately encouraging* migrants and their offspring to remain within society as separate "ethnic" groups.
As opposed to enouraging them to buttimilate. As opposed to just leaving them to their own devices.
For one, encouraging Aborignal buttimilation has been a pretty resounding sucess story.
The multi cult ism Menace 2148by culture, country. the society. of Of course Australian culture is a multicultural mish-mash. To suggest the list below strongly identifies...
Consider the following statistics from the 2001 census:
"The proportion of indigenous adults married (de facto or de jure) to non-indigenous spouses was 68 plus 1 per cent in 2001, up from 46 per cent in 1986, and the majority of Aborigines are now of mixed descent. Over 70 per cent profess Christianity (a fact which infuriates the Left) and only about 12 per cent speak an indigenous language at home. The vast majority of Aborigines do not want to live in separate communities away from the rest of the Australian population: in 2001 about 30 per cent were living in major cities and another 43 per cent in or close to rural towns, a considerable increase from the 46 per cent living in urban areas in 1971. Similarly, with over one in three owning their homes there has been a move away from traditional communal-type living."
Source: Peter Howson, Pointing the Bone, Quadrant Magazine Australia, articleview. php?article id=817
You can count the four times elected prime minister of Australia out. He has said on national televisiosn that he does not believe in multiculturalism.
The THREAT of terror has brought tremendous change with it already. What kind of changes would terror actually arriving on Australian soil bring?
I recall telling some university mates in 2000 that Australia should bring in a USA style citizenship test and I was laughed at. Fast forward to 2006 and a USA style citizenship test (the UK also has one now) is going to be introduced with bipartisan support.
I don't know about you, but I see signs that monoculturalism is starting to influence Australian government policy right now.
