Dear o sung wu,

No - that's just one man expressing his opinion. Just like those people who called for a "Leb and wog bashing day" on Cronulla Beach on that Sunday and wore t-shirts that proclaimed, "Wog free zone,"
or "Ethnic cleansing unit," or "We grew here you flew here."
It takes all kinds. Though I'm not sure why.

Kerryanne:

# The reason we have trouble at times in Australia falls at the feet of the Government. They dont have any compulsory programs to make these people mix and learn about our culture.#

...I think you possess some pre-conceived ideas concerning immigrants attitudes to Australians.
The Dept., Immigration and Citizenship web page, chapter titled , “recently published research” would go some way in helping you to a more informed opinion.

...I am acquainted with several ethnic families, who like us all, want the best outcomes for their children. Although the acquaintances invariable attempted to school their children in their own ethnic based schools, they concluded them to be too introverted, so moved the children to the public system. Some were unhappy with the outcome there (public schools), as being too Liberal.

...It just maybe the point, it is Australians with the need to expand their horizons and become more inclusive and accepting of the ideas and customs of new arrivals.

...I also know from my own experience living in the confines of a foreign language, the one thing the heart pines for, is the sound of spoken English, and how refreshing it is to be able to speak to another human fluently; no body should be excluded from their own ethnic base in this Country against their wishes...

diver dan

If you read my post again- I said the Government do not provide enough help & I mean it. As for personal experience among other things for the past 6 years I have been involved in setting up work shops and groups for people of all ages.
We get everybody together once a month arrange things like clean up Australia day etc..
Many parents and the kids have said they wished there had of been something like that when they first arrived.

So from the horses mouth i can say -it should be done by government not left up to a group of kind volunteers.

I challenge contributors to this thread to refocus.
Every time we talk about the issue, and I believe the issue is the Muslim religion not MC we UN roll our history.
Defend something we need not, oh yes post ww2 refugees met racism, fear and such, but we have grown.
Asian boat people saw extreme racists,small minority's, but over all this is not about MC.
And lets not crawl in to a corner and cry about Crunulla, it was not one sided.
Remember the girls insulted for years on that beach, treated as women all too often are in some middle eastern country's,not far from a time rapists did dreadful things to some.
Remember the youthful and stupid but still it happened provocations against lifeguards, the burning of our flag even the RSL one.
Are we part of a Social Engineering Experiment?
Look back ,those post ww2 refugees are the backbone of Australia.
In the end NO ONE is threatened by their two cultures.
Even our prime Minister is such.
Has the UN, a group of governments ,any one, said in say 200 years we can change the world?
Why have we introduced in to the western world,no think , not good enought to just shout racism.
A group bound by a religion that has a holly book calling for our death, asking its followers to lie to us, exclude us.
Why do we fail to honestly see, no other religion sends children out to kill them selves and Innocent members of their own faith?
This morning a news site reports on how many different people MAY HAVE written the Bible.
If that scientific experiment was done to the holly book of Muslim faith deaths may follow.
In my country we face
murders that surely will come born in hate driven by a belief foreign to us all.
Once Islam lead , some forget it then was not intent on blindness to an illness within

Kerryanne:

...Yes, I understand your view which in précis is, migrants have a need to be compelled to obey cultural norms at the risk of punishment. The birth of that view is directly from Western extremism towards Muslims. You are wrong to hold that view; it is undemocratic..

Bazz:

Cobber,... I think there maybe an upside to the odd shoot-out that we witness in our suburbs. It is painfully obvious to most of us, the law has failed large groups of the population; I think the Muslims of our community are but one group that struggle under the inconsistency of the law in achieving justice: Another group are Aboriginals. Justice fails them miserably.

...A natural progression of the failure of official justice system is to resort to solving the problems amongst themselves. This type of resolution to injustice has an economy attached to it which we are now witnessing!