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Has multiculturalism become a dirty word? : Comments
By Eugenia Levine and Vanessa Stevens, published 22/6/2007Forcing people to adopt something as personal and deep-seated as a cultural identity is paradoxical at best.
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It seems you've completely misunderstood my point, so I'll make it clearer for you. If the people of China were asked whether they have a right to oppose mass immigration on such a scale that it would fundamentally transform their nation's cultural and ethnic makeup, the answer would be crystal clear. Yet, uniquely among the 6.5 billion people on the planet, Westerners - the approximately 800 million people in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand - are expected by the proponents of mass immigration and multiculturalism to abandon any right to define or shape their own society.
The mere thought of Australia reasserting tougher immigration controls in an effort to sustain its own culture is automatically labelled "racist" by the openly discriminatory Asian countries. See the double standard?
As for Chinese immigration policy, the Chinese do not allow immigration into their country by non-Chinese ethnic groups. China only allows for the repatriation of ethnic Chinese (Han and other Chinese ethnic groups).
yvonne said: "Firstly, China is a more ethnically, linguistically and racially diverse country than Australia. Just because 'they' look 'alike' to you does not mean 'they' are. The written Chinese language is the only way many Chinese can communicate with each other. All the languages are as diverse as Finnish is to French. Only the educated speak Mandarin."
China is more diverse than Australia? Tell me, how large are China's European, African, Arab, Indian, Central Asian, South-East Asian and Hispanic populations? How many disparate, non-Chinese immigrants does China accept each year? How many refugees?
As for MichaelK, I'm not too sure what he is incessantly rambling about. Obviously he has never heard of the "Anglosphere" - a term used to denote the British-settled, English-speaking democracies.