The Forum > Article Comments > The invasion of Australia – official, at last > Comments
The invasion of Australia – official, at last : Comments
By John Pilger, published 4/7/2011The City of Sydney has officially decided that the 'European arrival' in Australia was in fact an 'invasion'.
- Pages:
-
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- Page 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
-
- All
I think the horse has well and truly bolted against your last comment, and that's fine with me. I'm happy to see more Asians and Africans - from all corners of Asia and Africa - and I don't even mind people coming here from anywhere else in the world either.
I don't think that Anglo-Australians (or more broadly, white Australians) will ever become a minority in Australia. America is a different prospect, since big chunks of it have been Hispanic since the seventeenth century, and the whites (or their ancestors) there made the choice of bringing millions of Africans to the country. Of course, a big proportion of the white population in America is already Italian, Greek, Arab, Jewish, Eastern European, and so on, anyway, so Anglo-Americans, or Anglo-Celtic-Americans (ACAs), are probably already in a minority.
But becoming a minority is not the same as genocide - in fact, a a slowly shrinking population may not be the same as genocide: the numbers of ACAs is probably stable or declining, and if they don't want to have enough kids to keep up their population, then that can hardly be equated with genocide.
In the medium- to long-run, inter-marriage will blur all of those boundaries in any case, which I think will be wonderful: what Darwin would call 'hybrid vigour' - children of inter-marriage tend to be more beautiful, haven't you noticed ?
Or - do you call that genocide too, Jay ?
Joe