Tell our author this much.
First my history, sent to Villawood a Sydney suburb at age 16 to work, from my country village.
Worked as the only Aussie with Italians Greeks and Maltese, leaned a great deal from them.
And formed life long friend ships.
Mum was one of 13kids and her sisters had many one 13 too.
Mum? 16 births live still.
Oldest girl lived in inner City and had? 13 kids, not an unlucky number for us.
We saw wedding in to just about every nation in Europe in that large family.
Until the 1970,s I never thought of migration as other than a great nation building thing.
That inflow from Lebanon concerned me, but I was not to know it in time would be seen as a very real danger to this country.
The end of the Asian war bought more concerns, not bigotry but concerns.
Now, if you look at that you will have trouble finding racism in this 1945 model old bloke, but wait!
I not unlike the children and grand children of all the above, highlighting those born from that migration.
Do not like Muslim Migration!
Not a race but a faith and yes, hate me for it! a religion! and the actions of that weird and confronting faith.
Tell me I am wrong.
But how would I go thongs and gut hanging over stubbys walking down any street in any country they came from?
And dare I? off course I dare I am standard issue Australian!
We would never ever think of letting any Christian Church govern us!
The world could come together without any of them.
Tell me one more time how do I tell a moderate Muslim from a burning car flogging idiot?
Why do some dress as we see daily if integration is their wish.
Why are so very many on our welfare from the day they arrived?
Hope it helps, you now have the thoughts of an Aussie bigot/honest man you pick.

Shockadelic that's gold.

It seemed to me an exercise in identifying narcissists near the end. I think I got a distinction. But diversity and multiculturalism don't bother me in the slightest, so that may make a mess of the correlations they are attempting to manufacture.

@ Belly, it is understandable from your life history and the points you raised that migration concerns you because it can bring change to the culture and expected norms in our society. I appreciate your opinion and don't think that it is any lesser than another point of view

@ Yuyutsu, shockadelic and Houellebecq, we appreciate your participation.

@ Houellebecq Maybe being ok with diversity (sexual, cultural and mental health) wise doesn't mean that it would reflect a greater sense of empathy. It may seem that the two would be related, but maybe it isn't. It'll be interesting to see what the results are though.

Sorry bloke!
I must underline a truth.
Many more Aussies agree with it.
Muslim migration is quite different than any other.
And while I am happy with all those others.
I will never be alone in questioning the wiseness, its absents in fact, of linking migration to a separate issue.
Muslims are in my view unwanted and an ever present danger.

Houellebecq “so that may make a mess of the correlations they are attempting to manufacture.”

There seems to be an intention to confirm existing presumptions.
You support all forms of diversity or you're a psychopath.

And if one questions “diversity” one never questions the government (never mind that diversity has been government policy for years now).

Their presumption that people who support “the nation” support “the government” will also mess things up.
Those are treated as synonyms, but my attitudes to each are virtually opposite.

I loved the conflation of “conventional” with “uncreative”. Classic!