The Liberals jumped on the multicultural bandwagon for the simple reason that it allowed them as a political policy to segregate society into cultural identities and then use those identities to crowbar socialism into culturally conservative communities. If you look at how the voting system is laid out you can see how having a large block of opposing political view can inhibit any party from winning that strategic area.
Especially areas of high population density that are keystones for political success. But if you can break down every community into racial and cultural particulars then as a politician you can enter these communities and speak to them about issues of colour and religion and culture and then BS them into adopting your socialism in the name of cultural empowerment and gain. Cultural marxism has infested all democratic societies. And the media wants you to lay back and take the guilt trip of having a once successful society.
Once you start really looking into it you can see the worm holes and social decay. Welcome to the Police State. It is now necessary to police 150 cultures rather than 1 nation.

Multiculturalism is more than a dirty word; it's a vile, pernicious ideology. It's more than merely ethnic tribalism with lip gloss. It's an all-out assault on Australian culture and national identity. The intellectually deficient and historically ignorant apostles of multiculturalism are essentially trying to abolish Australian nationhood, denying Australia's founding majority the right to preserve their own predominant culture and way of life.

Australia has always been multi-ethnic, but was largely culturally homogeneous up until our politicians and self-proclaimed intellectual elites began ramming the poison pill of multiculturalism down the throats of the Australian public. Four decades later and our nation is more divided than ever.

A nation that was once defined as a community sharing a common culture, history and identity has degenerating into a mere cohabitating space for the world's tribes. What can be said for a nation that celebrates the displacement of its own culture, values and traditions as a milestone of social progress?

For myself, I like Ireland because it is Irish, or Japan because it is Japanese. Yet, Australia is no longer inhabited by Australians, just a hodgepodge of disparate ethnic and cultural groups. Many Australians, especially those from Anglo-Celtic backgrounds, now feel like strangers in the country their forefathers founded and built.

Australians are incessantly told told that they have no worthwhile culture of their own, and they must accept multiculturalism as it is simply "racist" for them to oppose the alteration of their nation's cultural makeup. They are told they have no choice but to accept "diversity", which, in reality, is nothing more than the marginalization of Australia's Western culture by the assertive, ethnocentric cultures of those now arriving en masse.

The authors of this trite article seem to believe that shared national identity is somehow authoritarian. I would counter by arguing that multiculturalism makes a sham of democracy as it denies the majority any democratic control over the fundamental right to decide who should belong to the their society.

Multiculturalism is more than a dirty word; it's a vile, pernicious ideology. It's more than merely ethnic tribalism with lip gloss. It's an all-out assault on Australian culture and national identity. The intellectually deficient and historically ignorant apostles of multiculturalism are essentially trying to abolish Australian nationhood, denying Australia's founding majority the right to preserve their own predominant culture and way of life.

Australia has always been multi-ethnic, but was largely culturally homogeneous up until our politicians and self-proclaimed intellectual elites began ramming the poison pill of multiculturalism down the throats of the Australian people. Four decades later and our nation is more divided than ever.

A nation that was once defined as a community sharing a common culture, history and identity has degenerating into a mere cohabitating space for the world's tribes. What can be said for a nation that celebrates the displacement of its own culture, values and traditions as a milestone of social progress?

For myself, I like Ireland because it is Irish, or Japan because it is Japanese. Yet, Australia is no longer inhabited by Australians, just a hodgepodge of disparate ethnic and cultural groups. Many Australians, especially those from Anglo-Celtic backgrounds, now feel like strangers in the country their forefathers founded and built.

Australians are incessantly told told that they have no worthwhile culture of their own, and they must accept multiculturalism as it is simply "racist" for them to oppose the alteration of their nation's cultural makeup. They are told they have no choice but to accept "diversity", which, in reality, is nothing more than the marginalization of Australia's Western culture by the assertive, ethnocentric cultures of those now arriving en masse.

The authors of this trite article seem to believe that shared national identity is somehow authoritarian. I would counter by arguing that multiculturalism makes a sham of democracy as it denies the majority any democratic control over the fundamental right to decide who should belong to their society.

Dear Frank...thanx for the gold star back :)

You seem to have a fairly entrenched position though.. desiring to continue using the word 'Multi'-culturalism. Honestly, I think we would do much better by not using that term and implementing a program of education which focuses on in short "Doing for others as we would have them do for us".. that would solve it all.

Why use a term which alienates many if not the majority of Aussies?

Unfortunately, people being what they are, some will seek to take advantage of kindness, so there also needs to be vigilance about that, and measures taken to prevent abuse.

But really, the bottom line is to love others.. respect them, and they to respect us. For me this means our own culture will not be eroded by those seeking to re-shape the community in terms of their own history or parochial political agenda, such as expressed by

[THE nation's most senior Shia Muslim cleric has attacked John Howard for backing Israel against Arabs and openly declared his allegiance to the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah.
Kamal Mousselmani -- head of the Supreme Islamic Shia Council of Australia -- said yesterday his entire community considered Hezbollah a "resistance group", not a terrorist network, and lashed the Howard Government over its support for Israel.]

I'd deport that bloke within 24 hours, no if's but's or maybes. *OUT*

Even though you may not agree with my harshness here.. in terms of "doing for others" etc.. I cannot imagine myself standing up in Tehran and glorifying 'The Great Satan' and being allowed to get away with it..can you? So.. it's no harsher (and probably a lot LESS harsh) than I would expect if in Iran, where I'd probably be killed.

Oligarch

Your hostility towards multiculturalism is matched by your ignorance of it. Your rage is directed at immigration policy not the cultural policy that deals with the demography produced by immigration.

You say that “multiculturalism makes a sham of democracy as it denies the majority any democratic control over the fundamental right to decide who should belong to their society”. How can that be so? The decision on who becomes an Australian citizen is made by the Australian Government. Remember John Howard’s speech on that matter: “We decide who comes to this country and the circumstances by which they come”?

Last time I looked the Australian government was overwhelmingly Anglo-Australian in composition. So it’s Anglo-Australians who are deciding who should become Australians.

Given the political reality, to say that multiculturalism is “an all-out assault on Australian culture and national identity” and that ‘apostles of multiculturalism’ are “trying to abolish Australian nationhood, denying Australia's founding majority the right to preserve their own predominant culture and way of life” is a perverse nonsense.

How can “politicians and self-proclaimed intellectual elites [ram] the poison pill of multiculturalism down the throats of the Australian people”? If the majority of Australians don’t like the ‘poison pill’ being rammed down their throats they are perfectly able to throw out the government. That’s democracy.

And since the majority of Australian voters are Anglo-Australians what are you implying? That the majority of Australians (still Anglo in origin) are stupid and shouldn't be allowed to vote? Are you really saying that only people like you with the right ideology on racial superiority should be allowed to vote?

Banjo, thank you for wanting to listen to my story.

It is understood and shared by Australians like myself who have a different heritage to yours. It is simply about belonging equally as citizens to this nation we chose to make our home and to which we swore our allegiance. To which we belong as much as you.

Before multiculturalism there was no policy of integration, but assimilation. Assimilation is pretty well impossible for anybody who comes here as an adult or an older child.

Assimilation means becoming like you. I cannot. To succeed I’d need total amnesia, loose all family and past friends, get speech therapy and for some of us have drastic plastic surgery. Basically, erase all personal history.

It may seem like a little thing to many of you, but to many of us to be assumed to be Australian is the difference of inclusiveness to otherness. Now my cultural difference is acceptable, I am no longer ‘another’, ‘them’. I’m part of ‘Us’. MC aided this process.

MC is not about breaking Australian laws. Australian law is the law. For everybody, even visitors. Ask Sylvester Stallone.

It is quite immaterial whether some ‘cultural’ aspects are practiced elsewhere or not. Some of the cultural practices that are most often paraded as proof of the evilness of MC are illegal in countries of origin. The citizens, and visitors, in every nation are judged and tried according to the laws of that nation. Australian tourists have discovered this in SE Asia, visitors here.

MC is not about segregation. On the contrary. By the sheer notion of acceptance and respect of cultural difference amongst Australians comes the notion of inclusiveness.

MC articulates a reality. Australia, by its very nature, has always been a multicultural nation. The last census supports this.