"Successful multiculturalism is where everyone's right to freedom of culture is respected."

Yes, but is it not the same as religion?
- In that the right to 'freedom of religion' must also include the right to freedom FROM religion?

Does the right to 'freedom of culture' not also include the right to freedom from culture?

This 'racist' white Australia they frown upon, our old identity
Back then when we identified as being our own thing, different from everyone else;

Our soul;
We'd put crap on the Brits,
Put crap on the yanks;
We'd put crap on everyone,
In a friendly kind of way.

Our culture, what we identified as;
Was simply being our own thing, and different to everyone else.
Our culture was 'no-culture' or 'anti-culture'.
i.e 'Anything but theirs'.

All this talk of culture;
The real Australia I know and love recognises a right to not be imposed upon by any other culture.

I'm not going to sell out my culture of 'no culture' or 'anti-culture' only to be become subservient to a 'global generic culture'.

I have a right to resist that just as much as any other culture attempting to impose itself upon me.

Australia is drifting away from being a multicultural society and quickly becoming a bi-cultural society in which the dominant group will be Chinese. The other group won't actually be a group, it will just be everybody that isn't Chinese. You can see this happening now in Sydney.

I'm interested to see how long it takes before the government acknowledges that Australia is predominantly a Chinese nation. I expect to see a lot more Gladys Lius going into Parliament and even a Chinese PM is now on the cards.

How about this hypothesis:

Crime is crime, just the same, but those of the dominant culture (or close to it) are better camouflaged and also better skilled in the art of not being caught...

Culture is one of the most used excuse cop-outs !

Hey Yuyutsu,
I think more to the point the traditional culture don't pay as much attention to crimes by their own as they do pay attention to the same crimes when they're done by those perceived as foreigners.

AC,

Good point: crime by people from majority cultural backgrounds tends to be invisible, sort of taken for granted, 'non-specific'. So in most people's minds, it is 'non-ethnic'. Crimes by non-Anglos tends to be more noticeable, with names and dress and appearance giving cues which would be otherwise passed over.

Joe