Pericles.
A lot of the Vietnamese and Chinese around where I live are Christians who've come here for the obvious reasons, they even proselytise in the streets.
A lot of the Sudanese who are integrating well are Lutherans and Catholics, a lot of the Sudanese and Somalis who are causing trouble are Muslims.
Most of the Lebanese in my area are Christians as well, they built a huge church in Thornbury and there were no protests, which is in contrast to Mosque and prayer hall development.
It seems that this "culture" issue isn't as random or as rainbow coloured as we're led to think, that it's all been carefully planned.
There's some pretty shocking revelations coming out about "Muslims", what was long suspected about the Highland Caucasians,Khazars/Ashkenazi,Afghans, Pakistanis and Vandal Arabs is being proven true as genetic research starts really moving ahead.
Read this link, bear in mind that the author is himself Jewish and that what he's been saying, based on his observations for nearly 40 years has been proven true only in the last couple of months:
http://www.michaelbradley.info/
He further explains his position here:
http://www.michaelbradley.info/esau/esau-part2.htm
There's a far more in depth presentation in "Esau's Empire Pt1" which is downloadable from that site as a PDF.
Also this week we learn that ADHD has a genetic basis, so that implies that certain behavioural traits can have a genetic basis, even if they are "disorders" if they're widespread among a particular group we need to take it into consideration.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68S5UD20100930
Human Genetic research is in it's infancy, I keep saying we're not in a post racial world, that we're entering the "Age Of Race" and we have to start dealing with the fact that race is real and it matters.
Now before anyone cries "Rayciss" bear in mind that all these revelations make "White supremacism" and "eugenics" obsolete, they don't support "Racism" but they do support "Racialism".

David G,
Well David, perhaps I should have explained my lasr comment more fully.

When I say we should be more selective in just who we accept into our country, I mean from our experience of them integrating into our society.

The vast majority of immigrants adapt to our social norms, but there are some that clearly do not. I did give some examples of some cultures that continue to hold old hatreds of others more important that adapting to our society.

There are some here that continue such practices as FGM and forced marriages contrary to our laws and we should not compromise our standards to accomodate this.

We should recognise that some have alien cultural practices they are not willing to forgo and we should not continue to allow them to enter the country.

I believe this would benefit us and the people concerned would be happier in a society their cultural practices are accepted.

Pelican,

For once I find myself in agreement with you. I think it's about funding for "ethnic" communities whatever "ethnic" may mean. What does one have to be to qualify as an "ethnic"?

David G I'm glad you and your wife get on like a "house on fire". Do the neighbours ever complain about having to call out the fire brigade at least once a week?

On a more serious, note, isn't marriage between two cultures the opposite of multiculturalism? I sometimes get the impression the multi cultis favour some sort of Apartheid.

The discussion has certainly digressed into irrelevant comments as to the virtues(or vices) of a multicultural society. The author of the article advocates the development of a 'multi-cultural' bureaucracy staffed with taxpayer-funded social engineers who most likely haven't reached a consensus on the definition of 'multi-culturalism' themselves and who all probably should get real jobs.

mac wrote:

>>The author of the article advocates the development of a 'multi-cultural' bureaucracy staffed with taxpayer-funded social engineers ...who all probably should get real jobs.>>

Don't be daft lad. Who would hire them?

Governments are important in delivering some services and programs but we can go too far. Not everything that happens in society needs a bureacracy - there is too much waste and the APS has become top heavy and bloated. It is not longer a pyramid structure but almost inverted with the pointy end at the bottom - this is not way to deliver on the ground essential services which is ultimately what government should be offering new immigrants - not social engineering policies that are done and dusted or feathering ones own nests to the detriment of other services.