"Rose Wars: A New Hope"

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....

Was a planet with three kingdoms: Roseania, Unthornia, and Elitia.

For thousands of years, Roseania and Unthornia didn't know of each other's existence as they were on opposite sides of the planet.

Roseanians believed roses symbolised perfection and goodness.
Their God wore a crown of roses.
Every home had a rose garden in the front yard.

Unthornians believed any plant with thorns could only be the work of the evil demon king Riptoxus, who wore a crown of roses.
They thought the fragrance a trick, a lure to make them commit sins.
Roses were prohibited and destroyed wherever they grew wild.

Elitians (aware of the other two kingdoms) developed a sophisticated concept called "multiculturalism".
They thought people could live together whatever their beliefs about roses.

Many Elitians were sceptical, but their leaders just said they were ignorant and stupid.

The Elitian government invited Roseanians and Unthornians to live with them.
Many accepted the offer, as Elitia was richer and safer than their homelands.

Roseanians and Unthornians soon found themselves living in the same towns, in the same streets.

Roseanians planted roses in their front yards.
Unthornians destroyed them.

Roseanians took the Unthornians to court claiming suppression of their cultural rights. And won.
So Roseanians kept planting roses.

Unthornians took the Roseanians to court claiming suppression of their cultural rights. And won.
Unthornians kept destroying roses, gladly paying the tiny property damage fines.
"A small price to pay to be free of those evil plants", said their elders.

Tensions escalated: riots, arson, and murder became commonplace.

News of these hostilities in their homelands made the two kingdoms bitter enemies.

They also resented Elitia for fostering such strife in the first place.

Due to distance, no direct war was ever waged, but numerous sporadic terrorist bombings occurred in all three kingdoms for centuries.

Eventually, Unthornian scientists developed a biological weapon that would kill only roses.

Unleashing it into the atmosphere, the bacteria unexpectedly mutated and killed all lifeforms on the planet.

The End

Shockadelic

zzzzzzzzzzzzz... oh sorry, were you saying something?

Only 8 minutes to respond that time. You *do* have a pulse!
And I thought you were "too busy".

I'd like to see you come up with a myth or legend demonstrating the benefits of Multiculturaldictatorship.

But then, you can't understand symbolic language, as I recall.

Yvonne,
I guess you would list me as one of the usual suspects that put the case against MC whenever a thread comes up. I will continue to do so because MC is detrimental to our society and i want our future generations to have a cohesive community.

You mentioned citizenship. My wife obtained citizenship not long ago and it was easy, too bloody easy and I'm glad we now have a longer period to qualify and at least some sort of a test.

If, as you say, many Australian born would not pass the new test for citizenship, then I blame that squarely on MC as our history and social studies have been seriously neglected for the past 35 years since the educators got on the MC bandwaggon. I recently asked a very bright 11 year old girl, from Melbourne, some basic questions about early Melbourne settlement and the Victorian government and she could not answer. She said they were not taught these types of things. They obviously spend much time on global things, cultural diversity and how we should be tolerant of alien cultures.

Hopefully this will all change with the demise of MC and our history and social studies will be concentrated on much more.

Conflict will continue as long as we continue to import people of alien cultures that will not compromise their views to fit in with the rest of the community. I'm afraid the new integration policy will also fail if we continue to allow people to come here that have a record of no respect for others or our laws and social standards.

If there are better places to be Yvonne, why wouldn’t you go there? Why migrate here. I mean it must be hard living with all of us long weekend loving, sports mad education haters. They were your words weren’t’ they?

I get annoyed when the cultural cringe brigade start rehashing the same old garbage about how we should be more like the ‘cultured’ Europeans. Frankly they misunderstand both societies when they make such comparisons.

I am not sure how you think it is relevant that a migrant can take an exam on Australian history and politics and do better than many Aussies. But Banjo is spot on when he says that the political correctness movement has hijacked the history curriculum, moving it away from teaching kids about such things.

“Being free to acknowledge your own cultural background openly does not equate with being unpatriotic ...” I agree. The problem arises when you decide that you’re going to behave as if you never left home. There are migrants who come here who hate western values, yet migrate anyway because they know that they can continue to live as they please, whilst taking all of the benefits of living in a free and wealthy society.

What is wrong with taking only those migrants who actually want to become Aussies? I don’t care what colour their skin is, or what religion they are. If they can embrace Australian values like liberalism, secularism, rule of law, equality etc and they want to become part of our community, I welcome them.

But anyone who feels that they couldn’t mix with Australians have no business migrating here.

Assimilation doesn’t mean racism no matter how much you pretend it is so. People are free to celebrate their history as long as they are prepared to fully integrate with our community in the end.

The idea is that you become an Australian with XYZ heritage rather than a XYZ Australian. It’s only a subtle difference but it returns the emphasis to a sense of all being part of one society, rather than encouraging multiple disparate societies

"If there are better places to be Yvonne, why wouldn’t you go there?" (Quote:PaulL)

Ah! how the clichés are trotted out by the usual suspects.

...and the beat goes on....