http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12865#222851
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12865#222852
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12865#222856

drab, could not have said it better myself.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12865#222846

Poirot, ah, the "lateral thinking" side step into some oblique sarcasm, while blithely ignoring the well documented scientifically proven facts & evidence presented to her, how typical of the feMANised, loony left.

Did you look at even one of the documentary videos i put into my earlier comments for you?

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12865#222792
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12865#222843
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12865#222845

Do yourself a favour Poirot follow all the links i put in my comments for you, have a good long hard look at them & see if you can continue pretending that "denial is not a river in Egypt".

Poirot:

...Take care Poirot, alas!

“abyssus abyssum vocat in voce cataractarum tuarum omnes gurgites tui et fluctus tui super me transierunt”

“Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts…!

Mahatma Gandhi:
# A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. #

Dan…

Interesting article touching on the origins of state-sanctioned multiculturalism in Australia:

"Multiculturalism is the demand that Australians should adapt to rancorous demands by newly arrived or resident ethnic minority groups. Multiculturalism emerged from the New Left matrix of the 1960s and 1970s and is the crazed orphan of cultural relativism. In the Australian case it was designed to destabilise the affiliations to British-Australian traditions, institutions and values. The operational assumption that Australia was a W.A.S.P. (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) paradise built on racism, genocide and oppression is still assiduously promoted by leftist historians and by ethnic and pro-ethnic media. Hating Australia became a profession.

In asserting the regressive fantasy that all cultures are "equal", cultural relativism ensures that the host country, Australia - a term that multiculturalists are trying to depreciate - was denigrated as the source of authoritative allocation of values and legitimacy. Australian multi-culturalism was never put to the people and was almost covertly promoted by progressive activist networks.

Multiculturalism became a contentious topic decades after the realisation that it was politically and culturally destabilising and the origin of many taxpayer-funded social problems including ethnic crime, narcotics, social and religious separatism and political vote-catching.

As two researchers recently summarised, "Multiculturalism was not well known or popular among ordinary Australians." Subsequent research into popular acceptance of multiculturalism reveals respondents were particularly concerned that "they were never asked to vote on it".

*snip*

Multiculturalism became a profession based on the mobilisation of ethnic resentment. Grievance mechanisms required the expertise of the chattering class in the form of lawyers, social workers and, of course, the establishment of commissions and statutory bodies to rewrite "racist" laws and advance the interests of ethnic minorities repressed by the "dominant culture"."

Full article:

http://www.nationalobserver.net/2004_autumn_christopher.htm

Formersnag,

You wrote: "Australia was not a multicultural society before 1975, regardless of where they came from they were expected to assimilate."

Indeed.

You shall find that multiculturalists generally loathe pre-1970s Australia because it was, to quote Geoffrey Blainey again, "populated largely by people from the British Isles and because it seemed to have a cultural unity, a homogeneity which is the very antithesis of multiculturalism."

You asked: "What is wrong with you people? Why do you hate your own?"

This is a good question. Such ethnomasochism - the taking of pleasure in the dispossession of one's own ethnic group - is surely a bizarre phenomenon.

George Orwell:

...So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot

In summary, the insecure and unsuccessful despise multiculturalism and the "elites". They mutter darkly about social chaos and they resent most keenly those from their own ethnic group who are neither bothered nor bewildered by ethnic and cultural diversity.

There are many things that might bring a society down - but moderate multiculturalism isn't one of them. On the other hand, the negative emotions created by jealousy, resentment and ethnocentricism just might cause a lot of harm.