Its well known that by nuture human beings are selfsh.This type of nature has made the world left behind most especially in the developing countries.I am an African i have seen this keeping us behind,were by a rulling governments fevores a group of pepple were the leader comes from.
However life is what u make it,u can chance the nature if u decide to.
NTALE FRE

Dear Javan
thankyou soooo MUCH for making the point some of us have been trying to make about 'MultiCulturalism' for sooooo long.. IT DOESN'T WORK....

It doesn't work because people:

a) Seek power for themselves and their own ethnic/cultural group.
b) Look after their own ethnic group.
c) Favor their own ethnic group.

So glad that you, as an African can clealry explain this, and I must warn you though, that speaking the politically incorrect truth like that will not win you any popularity contests here.. except with those of us who share your truthful realistic view.

There are those here who will read your post, then.. will morph into some kind of creature from another planet and deny what you said on ideological grounds.

Still...the 'truth' is there.. in your first post for all of them to read...let's hope the headache they get from the cognitive dissonance associated with holding a 'belief' which is contrary to life will not be too severe.

I think that it is only fair to point out, Boaz, that your post is completely at odds with the issues raised in JAVAN's thread-opener.

But as the old saying goes, to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

It is not, as you try to infer, a paean of praise for selfishness.

It is actually trying to point out to you that voting in such an "ethnically selfish" manner is actually bad for people and society.

Far from being a "politically incorrect truth", it is a simple observation on the problems it has created in what JAVAN refers to as the "world left behind".

The fact that you think it is a good idea to re-create those selfish voting patterns here in Australia a) is not at all surprising and b) speaks volumes about your approach to those who do not share your ultra-narrow world-view.

But it's just par for the course for you, is it not. Mix up a little deliberate misunderstanding with a smattering of xenophobia and hey presto! another post from Boaz.

Al, I believe Javan was offering that we can change if we want to as per his/her last sentence.

Human beings have always protected their 'group' through fear of invasion or reduction of living standards (real or perceived). This was true of ancient times in a bloodier primitive 'invade or be invaded' mentality to modern times where the battles are also fought from a base of fear, either through economic or direct invasive measures.

The good news is we are evolving - after all we have moved away from small clan type tribes who fought those within the same ethnicity - hence the GROUP became larger to encompass all citizens. One might suppose this trend can grow outwards to eventually encompass all humans. Well...it is a possibility anyway in time, given the world is getting smaller ethnicity-wise.

Even free trade would be a good thing if there were a level playing field ensuring all citizens of any nation were able to earn a living wage, and nations were able to retain the right to import what they needed rather than what is forced under sometimes dubious trade agreements. But I digress.

This is getting to be a longer post than intended - must shake some of this public service taint off me long enough to be able to talk in short sentences.

Free trade would be good so long as Pelican got to dictate the terms of it?

Welcome Javan,

"Its well known that by nuture human beings are selfish"

Actually, it is not the humans who are selfish - it is their genes who are.

Genes dictate that the bodies under their control first help themselves, then in decreasing order, those with the largest subsets of common genes.

"However life is what u make it,u can chance the nature if u decide to"

EXACTLY! that is, if we consciously choose to overthrow the dictatorship of our genes.