Joe,
Yeah I actually did get my free tertiary education, BA of Fine Art-Sculpture, which fed me into the career of handyman, via a stint in hospitality and a few years as a tour guide.

Another point:
Tradesmen vie to get a good reputation among some ethnic groups, particularly those with a high proportion of nouveau riche, Jewish people, Italians, Christian Lebanese etc.
One guy I know is "In with the Jews', making a tidy living installing $50,000 kitchen cabinets in Elsternwick and Caulfield.
Again, contrary to David's assertion, ethnocentrism is financially rewarding and gives it's practitioners and third party beneficiaries both material security and peace of mind.
What does multiculturalism give people?
Maybe a government job or tenure at a university, which I'm sure can be a satisfying way to pass the hours but there's not much in the way of prestige or massive amounts of loot involved.

...Well Jay of Melbourne, What you see unfolded before you, is the conceptualised attitudes of multiculturalism by its adherants. Objectivism fails to convince those who are least adversely affected by the failing phenomena of multiculturalism.

...Unfortunately though, tough it is to convince the influential power base most responsible for the idiotic inception of the policy, and the increasingly dangerous continuation of the policy of multiculturalism, that, the social contamination of the failed experiment will turn to bite “all” in time.

Dan.
I'd be surprised if it did, ethnocentrism is the solution to racial problems in multiracial countries and it's very much on the rise here.
The people who deride ethnocentrism portray ethnic consolidation as a "circling of the wagons" against White hostility and "racism" when in reality it's nothing more than a sensible and moreover, practical economic measure.
The solution to "inequality" isn't assimilation it's ethnic economic consolidation,economically self sustaining ethnic enclaves and informal financial networks are the way of the future and will ensure a harmonious society.

Hi Jay,

Multiculturalism, in one form of another, has been around for a very long time. It is the norm not just of modern societies, but of empires, after all, any system in which borders are relatively open. How different empires - Athens, Rome, China, Ottoman, English, French - have handled the inevitable interaction of people from different legal and cultural origins, has varied: some have encouraged inter-mixing, some rigid segregation.

But your 'solution' seems to invite precisely the hostility and exclusiveness that you, with respect, purport to oppose.

Your suggestion of segregated enclaves seems to be similar to the Ottoman Milayet system, in which a feudal empire managed different ethnic groups by keeping them physically separate most of the time, and allowing them to run their internal affairs according to their own laws. Jews, for example, had to be all back inside the locked gates of the ghetto by evening. This system kept any group development - let alone inter-group development and social development generally - stagnant for hundreds of years, which, I guess, was its purpose.

But you would have a hard time to apply it here, in the twenty-first century, in a liberal-democratic society, in which the horses of residential segregation and formal ethnic inequality have well and truly bolted, and in which the common observance of one rule of law and equal rights of men and women prevail. Amen to that.

Joe

Joe,
No mate I'm not proposing any authoritarian or top down solutions, I'm just speculating that based on the way things are going "multiculturalism" will find it's own level, so to speak.
I'm just saying that from a pro White perspective this is a good and desirable trend, it'll lead to an easy life for all if we're not forced to compete on the same, uneven playing field.
I agree with you on your point about those sort of systems being difficult to implement in this day and age, Australia is probably the last place in which one group could dominate in the way you've described.
I'd say it'd be impossible, since White Australians would never support it, it'd be economic suicide for one thing and like the Ottomans we'd be back to imposing poll taxes and demanding tributes just to get any damn money out of the other groups.
All these ethnocentric economies, including the one from which I derive an income can best be described as "informal", from which you may deduce that excessive scrutiny from above would be most unwelcome.

On the other hand, top down economic, cultural and racial assimilation has been rejected by Australians too, so, as I said, my prediction is that we'll see an increase in informal ethnocentric networks, including among White people.