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A year of wedges among the multicultural success stories : Comments
By Tom Calma, published 13/12/2007As we look back we see it was not a good year for our globally praised multiculturalism.
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Posted by Dresdener, Friday, 4 January 2008 12:18:07 AM
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There is no evidence to support such a view. Asian countries, for example, will never accept Australia into their region - no matter how 'multicultural' we proclaim ourselves to be. As "..multiculturalism has been of huge advantage when it comes to foreign policy and diplomatic relations. Can you measure that? Can you offset it?"
There is no evidence to support such a view. Asian countries, for example, will never accept Australia into their region - no matter how 'multicultural' we proclaim ourselves to be. As Mahathir Mohamad bluntly put it, Australians "are Europeans, they cannot be Asians". And nor should Australia seek to erase its European heritage and culture as part of some misguided attempt to 'enmesh' itself into a foreign region.
As for the financial costs of multiculturalism, read:
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc0301/article_208.shtml