Jenny Goldie ask’s the question,

At what point, then, does multiculturalism go from being an inherent 'good' to being problematic?

Jenny’s question implies that there is general agreement that multiculturalism is “good” to start with, an implication that Australians may not concur with. Older Australians can remember a time when an Australian could get on a domestic airline flight in the same way that today we get on a bus. It was a time when Police did not have the power to pull over your car at random and rummage around in your belongings, in order to combat the menace of ethnic gangs using cars to transport illegal drugs.

It was a time when the police usually needed a warrant from a judicial authority to enter your home, but with the need to combat home grown terrorism, even that Magna Carta right has gone out the window.

It was a time when children were not shot or stabbed in school, or where ethnic youth gangs entered school grounds to threaten and assault teachers and staff. It was a time when female teachers did not refuse to teach in schools with high numbers of students from a particular religious group, who’s religion taught them that women are inferior to men, and that it is unnatural for women to have any authority over males.

The former residents of Fairfield, Punchbowl, Cabramatta, Bankstown and Auburn, would remember when these suburbs were largely peaceful working, and disadvantaged class areas, before they fled the consequences of multiculturalism, and these areas turned into crime filled cesspits where hardly a night goes by without another shooting.

Spiraling rates of violent crime. Sydney now the Chicago of the Pacific. Police stations and churches in Sydney being shot up, The rape of 70 Australian Sydney girls at the time of the 2000 Olympics by Muslim race hate rape gangs. Endemic welfare dependency in certain ethnic ghettoes Race riots, and now terrorism.

Whatever benefits Multiculturalism bestowed upon Australia in the form of foreign food, it appears to me to be more than compensated by its negatives.

At the point where multiculturalism ceases to be an inherent good, is when a group exhibits no respect for the dominant culture - the culture which has given it a home, protection and sancturary ... indeed when a group isolates itself from what it perceives as a culture not worthy of respect (including its laws), and teaches this to its adherents.

MUTUAL respect (perhaps even 'loyalty') is a given.