Disagreeing with the politically correct multicultural stance is almost guaranteed to get you called a racist, as if the values of most white Australians were something to be deplored, rejected and replaced with some borderless Utopian brotherhood of man style cultural Marxism that will make Australia paradise of earth once we get rid of all the bad people - the racists, sexists and other politically incorrect naughty people who refuse to swallow the multiculturalism myth. Those who embrace the flawed logic of multiculturalism do so not because they care about people, but out of some egoistical need to show they are more open minded than you - so open minded it seems their brains fell out in the process. One only has to look at the complete incompatibility between people from Islamic countries and average Australians, they will never do anything but clash, mixing as well as oil and water as Muslims will always be Muslims first and Australians second - their cultural values being at odds on so many fronts. One says women are equal to men and the other says they are unclean inferior creatures who are to be hidden from view. One says homosexuals can live freely, the other demands they be put to death. And so it goes. If one truly wants to be Australian, then they must embrace Australian values and laws or go back to their own countries where monoculturism is the norm. It seems the writer of this article still identifies himself as Chinese, rather than Australian, and, as Executive Member of Chinese Culture Monthly, has an agenda that, if inverted to White Australian Culture Monthly, would be seen as racist by every bleeding heart under the sun. In former times migrants came mostly from countries that had values not dissimilar from our own and as consequence readily integrated into our society but todays immigrants from Africa and Islamic countries have vastly different values, values that most ordinary Australians would find disgraceful if they were properly informed. But we mustn't criticize their culture, no matter how backwards and medieval it appears. It's 'racist'.

Living with many cultures and NOT practicing multiculturalism is NOT monoculturalism. Why is it so difficult for some to grasp that it is not the presents of many cultures that is at issue but, rather the ISM behind multiculturalISM. It is the practice of that ISM that is the destructive element in our society not the various cultures.

Pericles,
The alternative to the current subsidised imposed multiculturalism is NOT an imposed monoculturalism

It’s rather a free evolving - Aussie -culture .

If that results is us wearing Vietnamese hats , Scottish kilts & writing Haiku in a couple of generations, I say so be it -so long as the majority freely chooses.

And as for talk of "Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Führer":
From what I have seen of the recent antics of proud multicultural groups at the tennis & soccer ( the old name was so much more appropriate) multiculturalism itself has done much to foster & sustain an "Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Führer” mentality within some groups...

Yvonne and Pericles,
Yes, I am concerned about the society we will be leaving our decendants. If we muck it up it could be decades or centuries before it is corrected.

Multiculuralism promotes seperatism and conflict. The examples of this are all around us, both here and overseas.

Integration promotes togetherness and unity. I am amazed that some people cannot see this.

I do not expect a lot from migrants and I accept that they are the main ones to benefit from them coming here.

I expect them to discard any hatreds of others that their culture carries. I further expect them to obey and respect our laws and social standards. Other than this, they are at liberty to carry on with their lives as they see fit. That is not imposing a monoculture.

We are multi-racial but not MC, our laws and social standards HAVE to be the basic core of our community. We simply cannot have one section saying, for example, women are equal and another section not abiding by that. FGM is illegal here, but some are not abiding by that law.

You say that MC requiries vigilance, constant nurturing and education. Well I am sorry but the cost is too high. Both socially and monetary. We can do it a lot better, and both political parties at long last have realised this. Integration is a better way to go.

Various cultures do not have to give up all their traditions and religion to integrate.

Those that cannot or will not accept this should not come here in future. If some groups show they don't accept this and are incompatable, then we should not import more of that group. Our social harmony is too important to allow conflict.

Surely, acceptance of nations' nuances is a positive feature of a mature democratic society, where feeling of biological difference must be left somewhere at family kitchen for family celebrations if any

I'm all in favour of MC, but 'hasten slowly' is my advice, allowing the foreigners time to integrate properly. Like the Greeks & Italians very successfully did. No wonder many of our new immigrants feel little affinity to Aus & its mores. I don't blame them. It's totally bone-headed to expect otherwise.

The Japanese aren't stupid & it shows in nearly everything they do. They wouldn't dare do to their country what we have done to ours. They must get a chuckle at our expense. Singapore can get away with MC because it is a 'one-party, zero-tolerance democracy'. When ethnic troubles arose many years back, it got squashed pronto & it's been an incredibly well-integrated place ever since. You cant have a softly-softly democracy like ours and have unbridled MC at the same time. We will find that out eventually. Of course the perennial do-gooders, who approach all these issues with a religious-zeal like it all has to be accomplished in their lifetime, will mean the transition isn't smooth. What fools.