So what comes after multiculturalism? War in the streets probably, or subjugation of the current population, if they don't have the guts to fight.

Yes Peter Hume, but you should go a little further.

All language other than English should be banned in education or government function. Nothing like having to speak the same language to help integration.

Oh, & mate, the same should go for everything to do with the word "aboriginal". A bit of integration would help them, & get rid of a lot of white bludgers.

Austin Powerless,
In support of your comments, I submitt the following quote:-

Former Algerian president Houari Boumedienne "One day millions of men will leave Arabia to go to Europe. And they will not go there as friends. They will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory"

This is what has taken the European leaders so many years to realize as they followed a path of appeasment.

Fine words from the three, but let us see if they 'walk the walk'

Bronwyn,
MC is also a phylosophy that fosters seperate development, with a federation of ethnic cultures. Why has it failed? Because it divides people into seperate tribes and the cultures clash. The Sunni and Shia in Iraq, for example.

We need one community!

Agir wrote "They came here with the idea of growing their own sub culture, separate society, and when strong enough to completely transform and rebuild our country along lines more compatible with "their" culture".

Nice quote from you there about multiculturalism agir.

Therefore ----

You believe that from 1788 this aboriginal land was taken over by those with their own sub culture and separate community and that when strong enough they completely transformed and rebuilt this land along lines more compatible with "their" culture

Therefore, using that exact same logic ----

If you're against multiculturalism then you are anti 1788 and onwards white settlement, and you're also pro 1788 aboriginal culture and self determination.

Or do you live by double standards in this regard agir?

courageous,
Do you believe we should all have adopted aboriginal culture? We are still paying the price of intergration after 200 years. Multiculture does not work - is the conclusion. Playing the aboriginal card only verifies the failure of multiculturalism - the new dominant culture wins.

Banjo

"Bronwyn, MC is also a phylosophy that fosters seperate development, with a federation of ethnic cultures."

I don't think it does. To my way of thinking it promotes a united community, one in which people of all ethnicities are equally valued and welcomed and in which all are encouraged to contribute to the common good.

Any 'separate development' that has occurred is as much a result of exclusionary factors operating within the dominant culture as it is a result of immigrants deliberately choosing to separate into enclaves of difference.

"Why has it failed?"

Multiculturalism hasn't 'failed'. Granted, there are problems, but these are as much a result of population pressures and the growing divide between the haves and the have-nots as they are a result of multiculturalism itself.

"Because it divides people into seperate tribes and the cultures clash. The Sunni and Shia in Iraq, for example."

The problems between the Sunni and Shia, as between the Israelis and Palestinians and between many other opposing groups, are not necessarily a result of difference in culture. More often than not they result from longstanding tensions created by the arbitrary imposition of land boundaries, which more frequently than most of us care to admit have occurred at the hands of Western interference.

"We need one community!"

I agree. However, I don't think demanding complete assimilation (and in effect subservience) will lead to 'one community'. Certainly not one as richly diverse and interesting as we currently experience in Australia. And certainly not one I'd want to live in.

Bronwyn:

Welcome back. You have been greatly missed.