Horus,

Surprisingly, there are many different races and nations in Alaska-and many gasterarbiters, young foreigners there.

Hardly one could say human attitude might be measured as a degree of tolerance bestowed on English-second-language-d due to a mere digitally-quantity considerations.

MichaelK. "candidates from parties reflect no ethnic majority of a particular electorate usually?"

Perhaps 'usually" the ethnic majorities are only concerned with their ethnicity and not the rest of Australia? Not that I blame them, given the amount of attention and money they receive by government for being of a specific ethnicity. It's more profitable to be an ethnic consideration rather than plain old vanilla Australian. Lotta money in that hyphen.

Ginx & Co,
MC is not about variety (i.e. choice of cuisine’s or clothes)or,
about freedoms (i.e. the right to practice religions or , festivals).Its about good old fashion nepotism & careerism under a different guise.

The good, in all cultures & races adapt & get on with their lives.
The bad use MC to exploit their host country ( & the ugly? Well, thats where Frank Gol comes in!).

MC doesn’t necessitate terrorism & anti-social activities from the bad , but MC makes it more likely –and it makes it harder to stop or track down the perpetrators.

Looking specifically at the London bombings, MC provided the following essential ingredients

1)Sub groups –who identified with outsider’s more than they identified with those who they worked with ,schooled with & even married with (even in some cases after generations of citizenship).
2)It provided such groups with a support base – people prepared to lend moral support & safe haven when needed – not due to the moral veracity of their causes but merely because they belonged to the same sub group.
3)It provided them with a apologists –who first retorted ‘they were framed ’ (subtext - the Brits would stoop to anything) but later when it became indefensible, changed it to “they (the victims ) deserved it” (The subtext being, if we cant get you to change your foreign policies at the polls , we have the right to resort to violenc

Aqvarius,

Money paid to ethnic minorities is aka “blood money” is being paid somewhere for murdered relative or for a “first night right”: only very naïve and rejecting the reality initially deny a fact of mere biological approaches in employment and any other opportunities in Australia.

MichaelK., how does Australia measure up to where ever it is your from?
Your constantly slagging Australia but, never tell us about your superior egalitarian homeland. Don't be shy. We are all waiting breath abated.

CJ Morgan said: "I don't suppose that Oligarch knows the difference between a nation, state and empire? Hint: they are not synonyms."

Hint: Don't quibble over semantics unless you actually know what you're talking about.

States are merely political entities with effective dominion over a specific geographic area. Both empires and modern nation-states therefore fit the definition of a state. The difference is that empires were generally multi-national, multi-ethnic states in contrast to the modern homogenized nation-state - a political structure which exists to provide a sovereign territory (the "state") for a specific cultural and/or ethnic community (the "nation") whose identity is intimately associated with that particular territory. Hence the reason why multiculturalism is incompatible with the fundamental tenets of the nation-state.

FrankGol said: "You first said the Austro-Hungarian Empire succeeded. Now, you’re saying that we both agree it failed – but for different reasons. Anyway, leave that to one side."

It succeeded in functioning as a state without an ethno-cultural majority for 50 odd years (much longer if you count its predecessor, the Austrian Empire). However, it only did so through autocratic means. There is no need to confuse the issue.

FrankGol said: "Now, in what sense can contemporary multicultural Australia be described as an ‘ethnically divided state’ like the Austro-Hungarian Empire? In what sense was the Austro-Hungarian Empire a multicultural society in the same sense as Australia is today?"

Sadly, your barrage of questions are predicated on a misrepresentation of my argument. I never claimed that present day Australia was analogous to the Austro-Hungarian Empire prior to its dissolution. Australia still has an ethno-cultural majority, although the current policies of multiculturalism and mass immigration may irrevocably alter the balance in the future. That is my concern.