Cossomby, three highly intelligent posts from you. *YOU* are a typical Aussie, part of the great majority, who understands the "factual" ramifications of migration.

Australia has always been in change, it's currently in change, and will always be in change into the future. We are not a "white" mono culture, never have been, and never will be ... a tiny minority of Australians don't comprehend this fact.

How many examples of non-white racism do you count in Paul’s “examples”eh?
SPUD how about The Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority.

as for; <<And as for this (from the same Paul): << middle class Asians …they want an "Aussie" tradesman as they don't trust their own because they'll rip them off,>>

Sorry SPUD, I didn't post that I think it was Jay.

Cossomby "That's easy, Shockaholic, they will be AUSTRALIANS."

A poodle/alsation/dingo/terrier/hound is not a "chihuahua".

No they won't be "Australians", because "Australians" (the ethnic group) are not of Chinese-Turkish-Tongan-Mexican-Zulu-Tamil-Korean-Tahitian ancestry.

Were any of the Anzacs of Chinese-Turkish-Tongan-Mexican-Zulu-Tamil-Korean-Tahitian ancestry?

Have any of our Olympic champions been of Chinese-Turkish-Tongan-Mexican-Zulu-Tamil-Korean-Tahitian ancestry?

Did you go to school with anyone of Chinese-Turkish-Tongan-Mexican-Zulu-Tamil-Korean-Tahitian ancestry?

Do any of our greatest films star an actor of Chinese-Turkish-Tongan-Mexican-Zulu-Tamil-Korean-Tahitian ancestry?

Name one famous "Australian" who has Chinese-Turkish-Tongan-Mexican-Zulu-Tamil-Korean-Tahitian ancestry.

If people of Chinese-Turkish-Tongan-Mexican-Zulu-Tamil-Korean-Tahitian ancestry are "Australians" the term/concept/identity has lost any meaning it ever had.

In our past and present it *meant* something.
Something particular, distinct, recognisable.
Not anything and everything.

Ask anyone in a foreign country what an "Australian" is, and the image that pops into their head will bear no resemblance to someone of Chinese-Turkish-Tongan-Mexican-Zulu-Tamil-Korean-Tahitian ancestry.

The Chinese are not anything and everything.
Turks are not anything and everything.
Tongans are not anything and everything.

If they were, they wouldn't be Chinese, Turks or Tongans.

There is *no* ethnic identity that can be anything and everything.

Ethnicity, by definition, is what is *common/shared*.
*Including* ancestry.

"No need for angst."

Yes, just ignore that in the first four phases you mention, the majority of all immigrants were *related* peoples.
Probably close to 99% were Whites/Europeans.

Now, in the fifth phase, 80% of immigrants are unrelated/dissimilar to the descendents of those earlier phases.

But this is just business as usual? Same old same old?

Nhoj, people like you bring up the Nazis all the time.
Whether you personally referred to them in this thread is beside the point.

I've heard "Nazi, Nazi, Nazi" from your kind on this forum for years.
If you haven't yet done so, you will.
Sooner or later.

Shockadelic,
The opposing view to political correctness isn't "political incorrectness" it's logic,integrity and honesty, the other side are at best dishonest, at worst insane and there's no point engaging with them at all.
Here's a video which shows exactly the type of people we're dealing with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIj6kPoi4ow
I suggest we post what we want and don't respond to people who bait us, they don't have a point, we do.

Shockadelic wrote -- "Australians (the ethnic group)".

Shockadelic believes Australians are an "ethnic group", and that this "ethnic group" is ... wait for it ... only "white" people. Sometimes you just can't cure ignorance, when it's as deep as that.

Shockadelic will go to the grave with this backward, factually ignorant and 1800s era attitude. He is a man of the past, and most certainly not a typical Australian. He is part of a tiny minority of "white Australia" Australians.

Schokaholic asks: Were any of the Anzacs/Olympic/go to school with/ film stars/famous Australians of Chinese-Turkish-Tongan-Mexican-Zulu-Tamil-Korean-Tahitian ancestry?

In the past, obviously not that varied a combination, but in the future, definitely yes, at least to an equivalent mixture. (I wonder if there really is anyone with that exact ancestry?)

Australia / Australians have/are and will continue to change. In 500 years the momentary 99% proportion of British will be a historic phase, just as the 100% Aboriginal was, but British culture set the basis for Australian (non-Aboriginal) culture and it will continue to be the basis - for the simple reason that this stability is exactly what attracts people to come here.

I went to school with (a while ago now) Chinese-Australians and a mix of Russians, Estonians, Poles etc. reflecting the post war migration. By now their grandchildren have any number of ancestries. I am English/Irish/Scottish by descent but have part Philippino and part Italian grandchildren.

Right now, I personally know many individuals of multiple descent (the most complex I can think of is Aboriginal-Afghan-Maori-Chinese-Scottish). Even though I live in a rural area, I would find it hard not to interact with Australians of multiple descent - and they all regard themselves as Australians.

Schocaholic: "Now, in the fifth phase, 80% of immigrants are unrelated/dissimilar to the descendants of those earlier phases."

That may be so on a year-to-year basis but in the long run ie. last decade, British and New Zealanders have been the dominant groups. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Australia.