I support neither nations nor a planetary nation - democratic or otherwise.

Yes, there needs to be some minimal administration to protect people from violence and fraud, but it should be kept on a small/local scale while participation in all other bodies/societies, however big or small, should be voluntary.

I guess you often don't appreciate your country
fully until you travel overseas. I remember clearly
the nostalgia I felt when in New York I came across
a copy of The Australian Woman's Weekly. I almost cried.
Do I love my country? You betcha!
I couldn't live anywhere else.

Foxy,
I haven't moved in 13 years and I yet I live in a different country, when I moved here it was a multicultural community,now it's a Chinese community. Chinese shops, Chinese people walking the main street, five new Chinese brothels in the last two years, Chinese nightclubs, pool halls, doctors, dentists. We now have a Chinese festival instead of a community festival, funny thing is Preston was more multicultural before "multiculturalism".

Jay Of Melbourne wrote of Preston, "Now it's a Chinese community". Read his post folks, OMG the Chinese have taken over Preston (Jay's "white" Aussie Preston is no more).

Hmmmm, now let's ditch the paranoiac racism and fear of anyone "not" white and ...... EXAMINE THE *FACTS*.

Here is a link that shows the 2011 census results for Preston...

http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/SSC211113?opendocument&navpos=220

The total population of Preston is 29,975 with just 1,179 people of Chinese ancestry. There's 4,000 people in Preston of Italian, Greek, Indian and Vietnamese ancestry, FOUR TIMES larger than Chinese ancestry. And 17,360 Preston people were AUSTRALIAN born, 14.72 times LARGER than those of Chinese ancestry.

I've just proven, with the census *FACTS*, that Jay Of Melbourne is a typical forum bigot, who like other forum bigots, lives in fear of and loathing towards people who are not "white" Australians. Just another paranoid, far right wing forum racist.

Nhoj, Jay already mentioned Preston's multiethnic history (Italians, Greeks, etc.)

What he lament is the *increase* in Chinese over others.

The question with 1,179 responses was not ancestry but country of birth.

That's mainland China only (does not include Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan or Singapore, so the total ethnic Chinese immigrants would be even higher).

That 3.9% of Chinese mainland immigrants is more than *double* the national percentage (1.5%).

Include the native-born (country of birth: Australia) ethnic Chinese descendents and other sources mentioned above and the figure probably doubles.

Hardly surprising then for Jay to notice an overabundance of Chinese in the neighbourhood.

Highly significantly --it appears that David has declined to answer my question:

"Would your *democratic* (world) organisation be grounded on the principle *one person one vote*"