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Why a sustainable Australia needs multiculturalism : Comments
By Andrew Jakubowicz, published 20/8/2010Neither of the major parties has a policy that addresses cultural diversity as a dimension of policy planning.
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Yep....I agree, I’ve always thought that the reason European and Australian culture is always at odds is because they are completely “incompatible”. Australian culture is communistic, I mean from the point of always sharing the goodies amongst the family e.g. the spoils of the daily hunt, are distributed for all to eat.
When the hunt becomes insufficient for the people’s needs, they simply moved on to another site allowing the area to regenerate naturally.
Major Les Hiddins who authored the Army's Combat Survival manual in an attempt to enlighten Europeans in bush survival techniques was always in awe of the Australian’s nomadic existence and how it was in complete harmony with the natural Australian environment.
[“It is not only OK to expect standards of behaviour, it is the reason western cultures were able to develop into the modern economies and industries that the world enjoys today.”]
Hmmm......That’s not what is being taught in schools today! According to honest historians and social anthropologists all of the factors governing the development and wealth of the West were stolen from nations now reduced to the status of “the developing world”.
Much of this pillaging occurred in the 19th century when Europeans burst out of Europe in a stampede to be the nation with the largest empire. Natives of the newly conquered lands were either enslaved and put to work extracting their lands resources for shipment back to Europe or exterminated if they got too uppity. Rwanda is a classic example of European conquest, subjugation and pillaging of the land that over the years culminated in genocide. India is another classic example of the divide and conquers strategy. Funny how European standards of behaviour were never questioned?
[“I'm sick of people winging about the rights of imported cultures while systematically abusing and destroying the local one.”]
But isn’t that exactly what Europeans have done to Australia and many other parts of the world?
[“Gross hypocrisy tend to make people angry, and this does not help anyone.”]
Yes indeed. I’m glad we are in total agreement.