TheRealists: "I don't care about the people who benefit from multiculturalism."

Well I don't care about your improbable stories of interaction with other cultures, and I don't care about your manipulative prose repeating the dogma of how "scary" multiculturalism is. You haven't got the reception here that you were hoping for because the people here have the intelligence to see right through your facade. In short, you've picked the wrong crowd to try to manipulate. You might as well go back to recruiting ignorant yobbos and skin heads on your pathetic hate website.

I suggest others look at the report "Living Diversity: Australia’s Multicultural Future".
http://www.ifacca.org/publications/2002/01/01/living-diversity-australias-multicultural-future/
"A landmark Australian survey has found widespread support for immigration, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, and no evidence of ethnic ghettos in Australia"

Multiculturalism is thriving in Australia, with no evidence in crime stats, etc. that it is anything to be scared of.

Pelican and Flightlees,
I relate closest to your comments and the crypic comments of PHoo.

We have been multi-racial since the first fleet but we are not and never have been multicultural. The word is a misnomer. India is a multicultural country, where they have differing laws and social standards for people of differing cultures.

We expect ALL to abide and respect our laws, social standards and our governance. We allow some aspects of other cultures,religions,etc. but not all. e.g. Not allowed is bull fighting, cock fighting, honour killing,consumption of dog meat, dolphin or whale meat. Women can wear revealing clothes without being labeled a whore and women can go out alone or mix with non relative males. We have nativity scenes in malls at Christmas and Santa Claus. Women have equal rights in law and education. To my disgust, our governments even turn a blind eye to girls being subject to FGM, but I do not know of any culture that is accepted completely, except our own. There are even aspects of American culture that are not acceptable here.

As Flightless said there are people here that think their culture is above our laws and standards. It is our own fault this has occured because under the imposed ideology of multiculture we told people comming here that they could could continue as they lived elsewhere and we would adapt to them.

If want a cohesive community we must insist that our laws and standards are upheld by everybody. If some believe aspects of their culture are more important to them, then they should not be here.

It is pleasing to see that integration is taking the place of the ideology of multiculturalism.

Boaz, don't forget Nunawading, will you?

>>NUNAWADING COMMUNITY CENTRE.
Unless you were privy to the background of this place, you would not know that initially, it was branded for one ethnic group.
That group used corrupt methods of manipulating council to fund the centre, and then promptly named it "The (ETHNIC NAME)centre of Nunawading". The council had to virtually threaten to cut off all means of life to them until they re-branded it 'Community' centre.<<

The key words here are "corrupt methods", and of course the name that they "promptly named it".

Evidence, please. A date, perhaps? A newspaper cutting?

We don't want a repeat of the Swedish Pastor fiasco, do we...

Banjo:

"We have been multi-racial since the first fleet but we are not and never have been multicultural." But also:

"As Flightless said there are people here that think their culture is above our laws and standards. It is our own fault this has occured because under the imposed ideology of multiculture we told people comming here that they could could continue as they lived elsewhere and we would adapt to them."

And there's more: "It is pleasing to see that integration is taking the place of the ideology of multiculturalism."

Come on Banjo, get it right. Are we a multicultural society or not?

While you're at it, you might as well try to clarify your position on what Australian law allows. "We expect ALL to abide and respect our laws, social standards and our governance." But also:

"To my disgust, our governments even turn a blind eye to girls being subject to FGM, but I do not know of any culture that is accepted completely, except our own."

You've got no hope of convincing anyone if you can't get your story straight.

Pericles.. I heard that from an insider.. I don't know of any news reports and I didn't name the ethnic group concerned.. but I assure you they were not Muslim nor Lebanese :)

MC is bad (as it turns out in practice).. I don't know why people even argue about it. The theory is great.. but human nature is the one minor flaw.

Porky: << I heard that from an insider.. I don't know of any news reports >>

Given your record, do you really expect anybody to believe that?

<< MC is bad (as it turns out in practice).. >>

That's simply your opinion, Porky. However, what is unquestionably "bad" and socially destructive is feeding xenophobia and racism on the basis of unsupported rumour and innuendo.