Australia was a British colony.

It no longer is.

Successive waves of migration have
shaped and influenced the development of a rich
multicultural society.

Why do some people fear multiculturalism?

Migration is fundamental to the Australian story.
It supports our economic success and drives the
increasing diversity of our society.

Successive waves of migration have shaped who we
are today and influenced the development of a
rich multicultural society.

Why the fear coming from some?

Oh what a great question Foxy.

You are completely right. It is pure, unadulterated fear. But what are they afraid of? The first answer is a fear of change. These zealots are completely scared out of their minds of change, refusing to accept that the only thing certain in life is change.

They are scared of loosing their perceived status. They are scared of others getting ‘more’ than them.

And of course there is their perceived superiority, be it culturally, intellectually, and moral.

It’s a hard battle. One in which logic seems to have no effect. Fear rules the roost.

There is a vast difference between a nation being multicultural and a nation having multiculturalism as its central policy core.

The former is a statement of fact. We have a lot of people from my different cultures and they retain some of that past culture in their daily lives as well as imbue the native culture with those alternate practices.

The latter - multiculturalism - is a government policy that seeks to promote and, when promotion doesn't succeed, enforce the view that all culture are equal and equally valuable and ought to be equally celebrated.

There has never been a successful long-term society that practices multiculturalism. There have been successful societies that have taken in others and absorbed them into the prevailing culture. But none who just try to have a nation of many cultures doing their own thing.

There is of course a fundamental misunderstanding that the immigration cheer-squad make as regards culture. They aren't the same and they most definitely aren't equal. There is a vast difference for a society like Australia to accept immigrants from Bristol or County Cork or even Greece than someone from Islamabad or Somalia. Some immigrants already share much of the heritage with the dominant culture and others are ambivalent toward and sometimes antagonistic toward the dominant culture.

We in Australia are fortunate in that we have managed to keep the numbers of that latter group low thanks to things like 'Stop the Boats' (thank you Mr Abbott). But you only need to look at the Rape Grooming Gangs in the UK that are current tearing that place asunder, or the massive increase in antisemitic crime in Canada, or the rise of anti-immigrant political groups in Germany, France, Austria and Italy to see what happens when the multicultural floodgates are torn down.

People aren't afraid of other cultures. They are rightly afraid of the type of society you engender when you seek to forcibly coerce the dominant culture into ceding power to an alien culture.

A million teenage British women fell victim to multicultural fetishism. Who would want that for their society?

Hi Aries54,

I 'm trying to make sense of the fears that do exist
and the reasons behind them. Some are certainly tied to
the past and wish for its return. Others see multiculturalism
as division. Wanting assimilation not integration. They see
integration as a threat to social cohesion.

Still others see enclaves that could endanger our country's
security by certain groups having loyalties to their own
homelands and not Australia.

Also values may vary depending on cultural perspectives and
could present challenges and problems. Not all are willing
to abide by the rule of our laws. Female Genital Mutilation
springs to mind, as does child brides. Then there's past
hatreds between groups. And the lists go on.

Still over all our governments through education and specific
programs and strict set criteria on who it accepts - has
set standards that it has adhered to and over all - our
country fingers-crossed, does not seem to have the problems
that exist in Europe and elsewhere.

We've not had a "take one and all" type of attitude.

These are exciting times we live in. We should learn from
our past. As I've posted so many times - from people
like Weary Dunlop, and Caroline Chisholm and Vincent
Lingiari and all their historical kin so that we can
become the Australia we aspire to live in.

An Australia that is uniquely Australian.

I suppose that Foxy and Aries welcome the Rape Grooming Gangs to Australia and the instability that this and other aspects bring. The Rape Grooming Gangs are just an extreme case of the impacts that policy of multiculturalism causes. Ironically it is a statement of cultural dominance of one culture over another- in this case a dominance of Muslim culture over Anglo culture.

If people that have views of multiculturalism receive the wages of that view, we shouldn't invest resources in solving the problem that they created.

Those that support multiculturalism are responsible for the rental crisis, of course they deny it. They don't understand cause and effect. Responsibility leads to stability. Irresponsibility leads to chaos.

You could equally argue that Epstein and Weinstein represent the dominance of Anglo people by Hebrew's, perhaps not all Hebrew's, but some would argue that the culture is complicit in a culture of rape.

It's interesting that Muslim's and Hebrew's are presented as enemies but seem to have similar dominance characteristics over their treatment of Anglo's.

Where you put two cultures together there will always be a competition for dominance. That is why every culture needs their own nation. Marxism seeks to destroy all cultures by social engineering of a multiplying cultural landscape of mixed races. Even Marx talked about the nature of race in the global context.

The Southport attack and killings seems to be a result of multicultural policies- I hope the "multiculturalist influencers" are very happy with themselves.