David, where have you been all these years?

Haven't you noticed we have spent a few hundred years sorting out what we admire, & incorporating it into our culture. Most of us are quite happy with our culture, & have no desire to incorporate "alien practices" into it. We most certainly are not prepared to make changes to ours to accommodate anyone else's culture

A wider choice of restaurants is pretty poor compensation for a viciousness that has come into our culture with this incorporation of these alien practices. Have you not noticed the growth of knifing, & glassing since the introduction of some of the more recently introduced rubbish. This type of activity was never seen anywhere in Oz 40 years ago. Its introduction I find hard to see as an improvement.

Our culture is changing you say, but mate that is our problem. None of the changes are desirable, except to people with a bored palate. They may be interesting to the inner city chattering classes, & academia, isolated from the worst aspects of these changes, & more interested in what some foreign academic thinks of them, that those who pay their salaries. To the majority they are simply an unnecessary expense, & an addition to the waiting time for hospital treatment

Dear Hasbeen,

Knifings, glassings and other instances of horrible behaviour seem to be increasing. At least they get reported more frequently in the papers. As far as I know most of it is done by our own homegrown yobbos.

Possibly some of it would be eliminated by not having any professional sport and not subsidising football clubs and other haunts of hoodlums.

Judging only by your stated views Banjo, you are a little right of right.
And we know I am ALP forever, with joy after Gillard.
You myself and by far the majority of our country men and women, think much alike on this subject.
It is not racist to be appalled at the treatment of Muslim women here and at home.
To actually be shaken, by the increasing rapes in India, to know, as I think I do, driven by the dowry costs, that drives female Abortions there and in neighboring country's, it will get worse.
A blind loyalty to the now dead, multiculturalism.
Post war migration worked,European migration has.
But inflicting a lie,multiculturalism is a lie, by both sides of politics on us.
Then branding MAINSTREAM Australians racist, for HATEING the pain even deaths on young girls, in the name of a God that I can find nothing to say he called for it.
But every reason to believe both the covering up, FGM, and other practices are to give men power over women.
The left is without morals.
And with out reason to exist.

david f, "As far as I know most of it is done by our own homegrown yobbos"

You must live in a bubble not to be aware of the ethnic drive-by shootings and the strong arm takeover of OMGs by the same criminals.

Belly,
It may surprize you but I think myself as being middle road, I have even voted Labor in the past, not always and certainly not this time round. You know my feelings about the present mob and I will judge the next government on their merrits and performance.

The ideology and philosophy of MC was a mistake by both major parties and i hope you are correct in that it is extinct. We can do without government promoted differences. Our culture will change by the people acceptance of things they like.

When I refer to alien cultural practices, I mean repugnant matters, not just because they are new or foreign. forced marriage and FGM are glaring examples here. There are many alien practices in many cultures that I will fight to prevent introduction of here. Like in a brawl between two Sri Lankan mobs in Sydney resulting in a home invasion where acid was poured over a bloke. Acid attacks are a feature in some Asian places and we should note it not tolerate any more of it. Repugnant. The courts should be particularly tough on that.

Again MC in action, but culture is no excuse.

Dear onthebeach,

I don't live in a bubble. Hasbeen brought up glassing and knifing. That comes mainly from the barroom scene which is part of the regular Aussie culture of getting pissed and unreasonably argumentative. Alcohol has little place in Islamic culture. Alcohol also fuels a lot of domestic abuse.