HOORAY FOR THE YOUUUU -S- OF AYE... they have cultural testicles :)

KIRPAN.... how does this relate to a thread on 'genetic diversity'?

simple.. along with the GENES.. you also get the 'culture'.

Here is a classic example of how people tend to view the 'other' in terms of their own culture and how they feel the host country/State law should in reality.. reflect their own religous law.

If people feel this way, then clearly they and their community organizations... politicaly lobby groups will be working toward these goals. This would apply equally to Sikhs, Hindu's, Jews and Muslims.... shock horror.. perhaps even 'Christians' :)

http://www.worldsikhnews.com/9%20July%202008/US%20Sikh%20arrested%20his%20kirpan,%20turban%20forcibly%20removed.htm

Sikh man arrested, fingerprinted, charged "Carrying a dangerous weapon"... at last. It's wayyyy past time that Sikhs realized their religous law is subject the law of the land.

As if this thread wasn't getting bizarre enough.

<< simple.. along with the GENES.. you also get the 'culture'. >>

That's right - culture is transmitted genetically. Has anybody ever told you you're nuts, Boazy?

CJ Morgan,I don't see how culture can be transmitted genetically.Intelligence may be transferred to future generations but experience is not.Each of us must learn the reality of survival and children often ignore the the wisdom of their parents.This is where evolution is flawed,since wisdom is not passed on genetically.

Basically we humans seem destined to repeat the mistakes of past generations.

Glad to hear it, Arjay.

Actually, I think your general point in your first post in this thread is valid: i.e. that the diversification of the Australian human gene pool via immigration is ultimately adaptive, in a biological sense.

Of course, that's not all you meant.

Also, I have to say the diversion into alleged environmentally caused genetic disabilities among third world migrants is quite bizarre.

"Also, I have to say the diversion into alleged environmentally caused genetic disabilities among third world migrants is quite bizarre."

I'm not sure what you meant by "bizarre" CJ Morgan? Are you referring to the "diversion" or the "disabilities?"

Arjay was suggesting that superior "genetic material" could be sourced from poor countries to solve our zero growth population.

One need only look at the bioaccumulative genetic legacies inherited by the Vietnamese whose parents or grandparents were exposed to Agent Orange (dioxin) to understand the toxicity of environmental hazards.

We should not just confine the potential health impacts of environmental industrial toxins to third world countries either. The reluctance of governments to fund research on the hazardous effects of unmitigated, industrial emissions over communities and beyond, needs to be addressed, not obfuscated as is the culture in Australia's departments of health and environment. This could assist in reducing the numbers of disabled people in this country to whom Arjay refers:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23700909-30417,00.html

http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002582.html

http://www.ehinitiative.org/About/ehi.htm

http://www.iceh.org/LDDI.html

Like I said, bizarre.