otb,

Before podting you really need to do your research.
Dr Eva Sallis is a university lecturer, and highly
qualified to speak on the issues.

As for my comment to Constance - I merely questioned
why bring up the problems of the US. Australian
multiculturalism is totally different to that of the US,
Europe, Britain, and so on. I have given links as to
the reasons for its success. Here's another one
especially for you:

http://www.uws.edu.au/equity_diversity/equity_and_diversity/tools_and_resources/reportsandpubs/australian_multiculturalism_the_roots_of_its_success

The Conclusion is especially interesting.

Foxy,
Thank you for the link regarding multiculturalism, but it does not explain what the advantages of MC, or diversity, are.

What I am looking for is a concise explanation of how we gain from MC, in practical terms.

Like all other speeches supporting MC, there are hundreds of words that just amount to spin, with no practical examples given. One is expected to see the advantages of diversity and feel enriched from having experienced MC.

You strongly support MC and are good with words, so please convey just how we are advantaged by the diversity of MC.

Foxy,
Japan is considered a mono-cultural society.

You and others consider Australia to be a multi-cultural society.

Do you think we are smarter/more intelligent or have greater physical strength or resistance to disease/infections because of our MC and ethnic diversity?

Australia is multicultural, has been that way for hundreds of years.

It remains a very successful country and one that is prized as a prime destination for both travel and immigration.

We don't need to say anymore about how well multiculturalism has worked here.

Dear Banjo,

We have covered this ground many times in
the past. I've given you many links and other
sources.
I can't do any more for you except to suggest
that you go to your regional library and take
out a book on the subject recommended by a
librarian or you can also Google -
the topic - there's enough on the web.

Jupp, J. "From White Australia to Woomera:
The Story of Australian Immigration," Port Melbourne,
Cambridge University Press.

This book is a good place to start. Get the recently
updated version.

Foxy,

That was tricky of you.

These questions were put to you,
"you have repeatedly cited a novelist as your authority, but where is the relevant training that sets her up as the authority you make her out to be? You continually direct readers to her doctorate (in what?) and commend her 'extensive research' too, but you don't say what research that is and whether it was ever published in any journals of note"

To which your answer was,
"Before podting you really need to do your research.
Dr Eva Sallis is a university lecturer, and highly
qualified to speak on the issues"

Wikipedia says that Dr Sallis is a novelist and "Eva Sallis was born in Bendigo. She has an MA in literature and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Adelaide".

Why are you deliberately silent on your claimed and often cited (by you) authority's training and expertise? Yet you were very quick to jump in with a post to hose down and dismiss a quote from Robert Putman who has excellent, relevant qualifications. See here,

http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/robert-putnam

Then you were back to your broken record dumping of a link instead of answering the question.

Your dogmatism can never allow you to entertain the possibility there may be alternate opinions to your own. Apparently you don't want anyone else to get any other ideas either, hence your furious pace in always posting something, anything, to divert attention away from the subject post.