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Australia’s multicultural society works! : Comments

By Kevin Rennie, published 30/10/2007

The Prime Minister doesn’t seem to know or understand the real stories of migrants in this country.

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Dear Ozzie,

How can you blame an entire race or nationality, for something a select few of a particular race or nationality do?

You can't. And if you do - who among us will then remain blameless?
You're the one who needs to look deep within your own heart - and take a good long look. Because just perhaps you're not being quite rational. It's very easy to point the finger at someone who is slightly different to yourself - and who you don't quite understand.
But I wonder how you'd be in their country - where you were the one who everyone was staring at. I'm not excusing criminal behaviour here.
People who break the law - deserve to be punished. However - don't blame them all because of what a few have done. That's all.
Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 15 November 2007 8:02:01 PM
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Criminals are criminals no matter what their race or nationality - it's just wrong to taint everyone with the same brush.

For example -not every 'ozzie' goes around getting drunk at cricket matches and getting into fights. Or bashes bouncers in nighclubs.
Or is a bully. Or takes part in 'two-faced' behaviour - nice to your face (snide remarks behind your back).
Or is loud-mouthed, ignorant, and arrogant, when travelling overseas... Or is responsible for 'loutish' behaviour. Or tears down
and resents 'tall poppies.'
Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 15 November 2007 8:17:06 PM
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Knopfler/ozzie,

Actually, if you were to tell the truth, you'd say that the real cause of the problem is a clash of different cultures, not race. Race is just skin color, whereas culture is the attitudes people have picked up through their upbringing and through their associations with people they choose to mingle with.

Even the Caucasian race is made up of many sub-cultures: greenies, bikies, nerds, goths, bogans, hippies just to name a few. Just because bikies engage in antisocial activities like selling amphetamines doesn't mean we victimise every Caucasian by association. (In fact, we don't even victimise bikies that do the wrong thing!) If you were to look carefully, I'm sure you'd find that there are a whole range of African sub-cultures. Most are not violent, just as it is with Caucasians.

The other problem with making the issue one of race is that you are putting the targeted person on a hiding to nothing: there is nothing he can do to improve the situation in the eyes of the critic. He can't change his skin colour and nation of birth. However, if you nominate the problem as being one of bad or incompatible culture, at least it can be addressed without causing some extreme behaviour in the targeted person like sullenness or withdrawal from society at one end to violently lashing out at the other.

All that bringing race into the equation can do is to make the situation worse for everyone.
Posted by RobP, Friday, 16 November 2007 8:36:21 PM
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The myth of racism against immigrants debunked.

Australia's immigration program is based on benefits to a minority of affluent Australians in a system that approaches ancient FEUDALISM:

*Polititions benefit through captive votes, etnic enclave gerrymanders(the Lakemba factor), and that most iniquitous of all, the Coalition GST bonus from each and every immigrant.

*Property developers, gambling-magnates and bulk market businesses who rely on increasing, stressed, wealthy but agitated populations to buy,buy ,buy and make businesses wealthier and increasingly more monopolistic (media&telcos&developers&casinos are out of control under Howard).

ABS censuses are becoming nothing more than a new-age Doomsday Book of Australian citizens who have never-been-better-off. Nor more competitive, stressed and violent towards one another. Roman consuls would have died with envy! Anti-immigration sentiments have NOTHING to do with Racism. Government immigration-corruption is a much deeper part problem.

But get this final countdown! Immigrants are chosen on wealth under Howard and they are increasingly heard voicing the opinion that "Aussies(skips) are lazy and deserve to lose their country and their rights". "We have most of the elected officials now in local and state government and soon in Canberra". Stand around every second barbecue in Backyard Sydney and you'll hear this over and over. This is RACIST, not to mention Treasonist. And unlike the very occasional Aussie racisim, these people have the numbers and the organisation. To wit they are an unprecedented, significant medium-to-long-term danger to Australia.

Now there are some 2billion eligible immigrants from around the globe. As PEAKOIL approaches, we shouldn't blame them for thinking Austrlaia is an easy takeover target when our leaders and business elites have set up a godforsaken neo-FEUDAL system that supports that attitude in our own immigrants for short term plutocratic benefits.

Continued ..
Posted by KAEP, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:15:37 AM
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Continuing..

Herin lies the racism myth. Forget RACISM. If Australians can't get better leaders perhaps we do deserve to be INVADED and face the inevitable ugly consequences. We need leaders that understand PEAKOIL and thus understand the prime needs to:

*Stabilise population to 21 million (overcrowding the Titanic & skimping on the lifeboat factor),

*As a PEAKOIL bridge, Go PBR NUCLEAR exports to make up for the loss in immigration GST growth

*Understand the thermodynamics of ENERGY and ORDER in CIVIL populations and choose sustainable GEOTHERMAL power generation over silly, flaky, green renewable schemes as a replacement for coal.

Howard/Costello have right-Feudally failed us and Rudd is impotent, only understands short polls and doesn't get the gravitas of ENERGY and thermodynamics!

So are we Australians, of all racial origins and intentions, doomed?

Time to wake up and demand better PEAKOIL preparation from whatever new leadership we get on 2007, the 24th of November.
Posted by KAEP, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:22:27 AM
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Foxy,

In the last few days

African mobs rioting in Flemington, throwing rocks at Police cars. Now the media is trying to blame the cops for targeting the africans.

Stabbings in Box Hill, Chinese involved on both sides.

Attempted carjacking in Glen Waverley, Asians and Middle eastern involved.

Nothing to do with Race of course!

Multiculturalism is destroying Australia.

Foxy your pro MC propaganda is destroying my country
Posted by ozzie, Monday, 3 December 2007 7:43:25 AM
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