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Has Multiculturalism Failed? : Comments
By John Töns, published 22/10/2010Multiculturalism properly separates private from public, but within shared community values.
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your provision of some English history is well meaning..and on the surface might be considered 'persuasive' for the case 'for' multi-culturalism.
But..as you suggest..let's dig a bit deeper. The Romans were not particularly tolerant of little upstarts of 'non' Roman culture becoming a threat.. just ask David F what happened to his own forebears on that score.
The key to a successful state is not 'divisive' "Multi" ...culturalism but MONO culturalism as public policy. No..I don't mean 'wipe out' non mainstream cultures..but I DO mean 'educate,encourage and reward all evidence of people working to integrate,assmililate and be productive loyal citizens of ONE country'.
Now..to all but the totally irrational among us... it would seem obvious that a careful and selective immigration policy would be wise if not absolutely neccessary for this to be a goer without any major handicaps.
We don't need or want 'ex' Tamil Tigers, or 'patriotic' sinhanlese or Hi cast hindu's or Militant Muslims or Croats or Serbs who never intend to forget their own petty historic squabbles.
We can accept people from such 'national' (but not political) backgrounds on strict condition that they make a committment (with KPIs) to be good Australians and to support embrace and promote the culture they find already here.