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<<The FECCA does not mince its words. "The apparent neglect of the Australian Government to adequately recognise and support multiculturalism...could see Australian society experience difficulties often cited in [Europe]." The FECCA's list of these social ills includes crime, entrenched poverty and extremism>>

WHAT A CROCK!

LOL

It is largely through multiculturalism (and poor immigration practices) that Europe has accrued such "social ills".

The FECCA's concerns derive largely from its bods wanting to protect their seat on the gravy train.

Interesting article, the author has summarised the dysfunctions of institutionalised multiculturalism very well indeed.

"It's a new, 'hard' form of multiculturalism – one that was well intentioned at first."

I'll have to express considerable scepticism in regard to the view that the multiculturalist ideology was always promoted by well-intentioned people from its initiation, for example, it's a useful Trojan Horse for the Islamist agenda.

"Multiculturalism" as an ideology was, most likely, intended as a rationale for immigrants to reject assimilation and Australian society and to cling to, and promote the often inhumane and anti-democratic cultural baggage of their homelands.

SPQR,

"FECCA's concerns derive largely from its bods wanting to protect their seat on the gravy train."

Agreed, liberal democratic societies are intrinsically multicultural, we don't need a self-serving multi-culti industry, multiculturalism is not the business of any democratic government.

Multiculturalism is a mixed bag of good and bad. But Australia is now a highly multicultural society, and that ain’t gonna change any time soon.

What IS likely to happen is that the downsides of multiculturalism will increase their magnitude while the upsides will not increase any further.

This is simply due to the utter absurdity of us living in a massively unsustainable manner, and making it all very steadily less sustainable by way of very high immigration.

We need to reduce immigration to net zero or thereabouts!

This has got nothing to do with the cultural, religious or ethnic makeup of our immigration intake. But it has everything to do with our ability to achieve high-quality sustainable society, which requires a stable or at least very slowly growing population.

If we continue on as we currently are, with very high population growth, due primarily to absurdly high immigration, we won’t be going anywhere near achieving this.

Things will steadily get worse. And as they do, the tensions within a highly diverse multicultural society will increase.

So, if we want to hold on to the good aspects of the multicultural society that we now have and minimise the increase of the bad aspects, the most important thing that we need to do is to STOP rapidly growing our population. And the most significant factor of this is the reduction of immigration to +/- net zero.

Immigration has got everything to do with our multicultural society. But it is not the composition that is important, it is the overall numbers!

Yeah well! The “fair go” is not extended now – to Australians born and bred here, and migrants of Anglo-Saxon background. The much too fair go, is extended to minorities who only come here to form their own tribes, and they do not appreciate the fair go they get; nor do they extend it to people outside their own ethnic or religious group.

Multiculturalism was forced on us by a fiat from Malcolm Fraser, and socially, Australia has been in a downward spiral ever since. Australia is now full of the same mistrusts and hatreds in other countries our stupid politicians didn't learn from.

Multiculturalism is obnoxious, dangerous and undemocratic. It is one of the worst cases of bad politicians buying votes while upsetting and insulting the majority.

And, Ludwig is right on net immigration no matter the origins of immigrants.We cannot afford anything but skilled immigration these downs - and only those skill that are not already here.

Threats to introduce sharia law are already very real.