ONE NATION, ONE CULTURE, ONE RACE.....Full Stop.

How beautiful it would be, if we had no sense of ‘ethnic division’.
If we could all look around and see just ‘Australians’.

Cultural diversity emphasis is based on racist ideas. What is so important about my ‘ethnicity’ ?
After all, our liberal friends are constantly telling us “There is only ONE race...the Human Race”.

Ok.. if thats the case, then why in the world would we not want to intermarry, and mix ourselves up so that a new ‘Australian’ emerges, who has bloodlines stretching out all across the globe ?

There is nothing inherently ‘superior’ or ‘more noble’ about my own Scottish/English background. The only thing we have going for us in Australia is ‘numbers’.

Naturally, as we intermarry and blend, the new ‘Australian’ will have shade of skin possibly a bit off white. His/her nose might be a tad flatter, he/she might indulge in customs slightly different from those we practice now. But one thing is for sure. There will never again be ‘Cronulla’ or Maroubra, or Lambing flat, or yesterdays bashing of a Jewish man in Caulfield by drunk Ocean Grove footballers.

Yes, I speak with a vested interest. I am bi-racial (Scot/Anglo) and have tri-racial children and am married to an Asian girl.
One thing I noticed though, my children were able to identify with all groups. My young son loves Jacky Chan movies but his best friend is very much Anglo. My oldest son was repeatedly the most popular boy in his secondary year (not by vote, just by perception of the teachers).
My daughter did suffer the scarring indignity of being told she was “born in a peanut butter jar” by an anglo girl at primary school, and is now marrying a half Anglo half Maori boy and her child will be and Australian of English/Scottish/Bornean/Maori ethnic heritage.

Perhaps I’m just being selfish, but I’d hardly say I’m ‘racist’ :)

DB,

Yes, we could in theory eliminate racism by eliminating our species racial diversity but why stop there? Why not just pick our best specimen and fill the world with its clones. That way we could get rid of racism, sexism and just about every other 'ism' out there.

Your proposal would solve the problems which attach to our racial diversity, but it'ss just as true to observe that the Nazis, had they eliminated all the 'sub-human' elements they dispised, would have ultimately produced a less racist society than any today.

The key to dealing with racism isn't to breed out the distinct racial groups, it's for those racial groups to lean to accept each other as equals.

Peace man. Let us show intolerance only for the intolerant.

Kalin.. oh that it was as easy as you say.. "Teach them to get along" :)

man.. we all dream of that, but in the history of the world up till now, I haven't seen it.

Just one point on your post. Hitler wanted to "kill" the sub humans.
I don't regard anyone as sub human, just different. I'd rather see us blend, and in so doing we would incorporate all the best in terms of food and even possibly fashion, and various other cultural niceties into our new 'Aussie' of tomorrow.

In order for separate groups to get along, they would have to interact socially. If they do, then there is a likelihood of people finding life partners among those other groups. I totally encourage this, but we would need a strong cultural framework which promotes and accepts and blesses such unions, and we would need to clearly socialize people in a way which dissapproves of inter-racial/cultural unions.

I'm not actually going in this direction because I'm in such a union, but I do really think it would be the answer to diversity related problems.

I simply don't see any need or reason which can justify 'sticking with our own' racially. On the religious level I can see people having a big issue on it, but that does not exclude inter-racial unions. As people from different races can have the same religion.

thanx for your comment.
P.S. I had to change the title for this thread :) Graham was a bit worried about the 'image' of OLO, but they allowed the real title "ONE... etc to remain at the head of the first post. Bless them :) I was trying to use is as an attention getter.. "What.. One Nation is HERE ?" Kind of thing. But hopefully, reading the content would dispell that idea

Hi BOAZ,

We've got some common ground here. I was born in England. My four grandparents were [alphabetically] French, Irish, Jewish and Scottish. Fortunately, they all had olive skin, as did both my parents, and my skin doesn't burn.

My first wife and the mother of our children had a father who was English of German family and her mother was English of Portugese family. Our eldest son inherited the dark skin from both sides and has been mistaken for Aboriginal. For instance, when he was a young teenager he had a weekend job in a WA country town and was called a black bastard in the street because he wouldn't share his cool drinks with some young white guys he didn't even know. He also once had an unusual experience with a police officer, who mistook him for Aboriginal. You can learn something about unfair discrimination from incidents like this, cant you?

He's now married to a Balinese girl and they live in Bali with their young son.

My young sister married an Englishman of Russian family. My second wife was English, with some Irish ancestors. My lady friend is Japanese. I don't think any of this was planned, we all just became attached to people who we fell in love with. But at least it could be an indication that my family has always tended to be not racially prejudiced.

From being a young boy growing up in England, I had friends who could trace their ancestry back to various European countries. And one Welsh friend who's ancestor came from Spain, but he didn't look Spanish, he looked so North African Arabic that he would have made a perfect Hollywood "Hawk of the Desert".

I would think that this racial mix is far more common in those whose family came from Britain and Ireland than many would think, or perhaps care to acknowledge.

BD AND REX ,my we are a mixed up mob aren't we !
Can't say too much though as our crew are going the same way .With a Jewish Godfather,[ from good mates promising to look after each other in the Second WW ] it makes it harder to go crook on the Israelis; and by having a gold digger great grand father from Barbados, with a "Touch of the tar brush" in him, I am open to large scale abuse from the mother -inlaw when i give a coo-ee of joy when Lara, with a rare good run from the umpires gets a ton !!
Ah,Love makes the world go round .

BD, Your use of the word "we" to describe "all humans" is a clever way of denying race matters. Yes it may be scientifically disproved, but it informs privilege and organises society in particular ways.

Yes it may be virtuous for you to declare everyone as equal and you might feel like a saint in doing so, but it isn’t the reality dude.

You're hearts in the right place but racism is much more complex than you appear to acknowledge.

In Australian culture "Australian" and "white" and "human" are considered to be synonymous, telling a black person to be "just a person" is like saying, "Why don’t you become like a white person?

Your children will need you to understand racism in greater depth, certainly more than you display here in OLO.

In fact, I feel I have a responsibility in asking you to decide whether or not you really care for your children at all - if you don’t get more informed.

Otherwise they'll end up hating you for reasons you don't understand. They are growing up and navigating a social, cultural and racial world much more complex than you give them credit for