Andrew, there’s lots of “stuff” in this article however; there is no sense of proportionality or reference points.

What was the percentage of ethnic media representation in 1990 as it relates to actual ethnic populations? What are the changes in representation today? What changes have occurred by media type during the period of 20 years? What are the geographic variances? With all those years of research you must have something to present rather than just an opinion?

As one of the “full range” of Australian’s with “crass and simplistic views” of cultural issues, perhaps you could assist by providing something a little more informative and fact based? Otherwise you may be seen as perpetuating the problems you ascribe to the media.

Jay: << believe me, I'm an activist >>

No kidding?

David J - LOL at the "forbidden zone".

Closer to the topic, Mr. Author: what are employment opportunities for high qualified Jews at so-called “mainstream market” in English-oriented UK semi-colony?

That is an answer to all your minding.

I'm not sure that the mere existence of people from many different societies is an indication of a single, multicultural society - too often, people don't really interact, but seem to exist in parallel universes. They may walk past each other as if oblivious of each other's presence, or sit at adjacent uni cafeteria tables, but not acknowledge each other, sort of look through each other.

But this could be primarily a phenomenon of first-generation migration or new generations of students - i.e. the first time that Anglos experience these 'foreigners' [and we shouldn't forget that many migrant groups may be experiencing 'other' people for the first time themslves, i.e. for them too, it may be the first time that THEY have to 'think multiculturally', and it may come as a shock to find themselves to be in a minority] - but my impression (requiring rigorous investigation and testing) is that interaction is occurring much more than even ten years ago and that, for example, Sudanese-Australian interaction with other Australians may be occurring much more rapidly than it would have in the past, say, between 1950s-1960s Greek-Australians and other Australians. There seems also to be much more friendly relations between 'old' Australian students and overseas students than ten or twenty years ago.

Of course, one measure of a multi-cultural society is the degree of inter-marriage, including that between non-Anglos. This seems to involve second- rather than first-generation migrants, but the temporal gap seems to be shortening. Maybe I am more aware of it now than forty years ago, and therefore 'observe' it to occur more often.

But perhaps an obviously related phenomenon is the increase in the number and proportion of multicultural families, children with multicultural identities. Perhaps it's just another perception, but multicultural children seem to be far more comfortable interacting and socialising with other non-Anglo children, and other multicultural children, so there is hope for us all yet.

Joe

Well I do beg everyone's pardon, I did misread the line about "half the population is less than two generations deep, MANY from non Caucasian backgrounds", I'm so used to reading misleading and twisted statistics from the Left that I sometimes draw the wrong conclusion
Yet I'm not the only one on this site who reads subtexts that aren't there.
My further comments stand, Leftists are continually bemoaning the fact that they have to drag White Australians kicking and screaming into multiculturalism.
Ignoring the fact that most non Whites have to be similarly coaxed and prodded the very kicking, screaming and other negative responses are indicative of one of two things.
Either none of us are ready for it, or..
None of us really want it.
The very Real and severe Race hatred and Supremacism we find from time to time among Whites is a born of a single world view in a pathological state.
Racism is a cultural infection, you don't deal with it by smashing it and splashing all and sundry with it's black Ichor nor does confining it in the dark margins of society cure it.
If Leftists were serious about multiculturalism and Racism they'd be bringing people out of the contaminated zone and disinfecting them instead of hunting them down or ostracising them.
The Left however is a virtual epidemic of cultural viruses eating away at western society, a multiplicity of inflexible viewpoints does not make for a tolerant or stable society.

Things have gotten so bad that at Friday's anti Racism rally in Melbourne we were exhorted to scream and chant at a group of allegedly paid Stooges standing in for "Racists", I'm not joking, people were actually murmuring "Why are we yelling at those guys? They don't look like Racists to me" Truth is they weren't.
Then we were told by the organisers that the "Muslims" had been advised not to attend due to the threat of "right wing"violence.
WHAT? Are they serious?
There were no Racists there, there were never going to be any and there were dozens of us there ready to go into bat for the "Muslims" if things did turn ugly.
How can you have "Multiculturalism" in a society this sick?
how do you accurately represent such a gravely ill society in film and TV anyway?
Multiculturalism is the responsibility of White people, we're told.
Yet We're the only group in society which has most of it's people working against their own interests and against the intersets of the country.
We have idealogues on both side keeping up a barrage of hate so fierce that those of us in the middle who might actually have a plan have to keep their heads down to avoid having them knocked off.
So yeah, Whither multiculturalism in a time of cultural plagues?