Echoing CJ Morgan, Happy Harmony Day!

Horus, you distort my argument. I said that successive governments - Coalition and ALP alike - legitimated Multiculturalism. The counter-argument came: the people didn't have a say in that because there was no referendum. I countered that by saying that referenda are rare; overwhelmingly, governments introduce policy without referenda because they think they are acting in the national interest. If enough people they're wrong, they can vote them out at election-time. That hasn't happened. It's reasonable to conclude that only a minority of Australians oppose Multiculturalism.

Oligarch, you accuse me of 'unfounded, dogmatic certitude'. And you do it with 'unfounded dogmatic certitude'. But I'm not your prime target. You call Jieh-Yung Lo a 'multicultural industry beneficiary' and berate him for having the 'audacity to lecture Australians'. Wouldn't you feel better if you dealt with his ideas rather than name-calling and mud-slinging?

Horus, having no counter to my substantive arguments, you resort to unconfirmed anecdote. You produce four workplace stories as if they typify Multiculturalism. They sound like examples of poor management and inadequate workplace relations to me. They are no more symptomatic of Multiculturalism than Banjo's 'poligomy, dog meat and dolphins, whales being consumed, FGM common place, cockfights and bullfights held every Saturday, firearms carried openly in public'.

As aqvarivs says, today of all days: 'Oh, Man. There's nuttin like a good joke.'

Also “a melting pot society is still multicultural” (by aqvarivs, Monday, 19 March 2007 1:05:55 PM), there is a significant difference between MELTING and MIXING - to technically literal definitely.

Pedophilia (along with incest) is really very common in modern UK&Co as understood from internet and media, and in Australia just being financially sustainable could afford this entertainment, which to great extent grounds yvonne observations.

Frank,
It has been stimulating discussing the issue with you.
Catch you (out) again next time.
Have a nice day.
Adieu!

MichaelK, I would say New York City, New York, USA. is probably one of the largest "melting pot" societies on earth. People have migrated there from the four corners of the earth to live and work and contribute to that society. No one begrudges another their culture, and no one has to pay to ensure the prosperity of any persons culture, and their laws and social construct are not dependent on culture. Yet diverse cultural expression exists and flourishes. Imagine. And all that with out the dictates of "multicultural ISM".

I love New York.

And I easy see topic-related problems both there and round the States in many places I had been to.

However, it differs from Australia much,aqvarivs.

There is a key difference between New York's ethnic diversity and Australia's systematic national suicide driven by high immigration in combination with multiculturalism.