How's that for "Entitlement"?
Poirot,
that's wrong. In my area this is being done every day & those who say something get shafted by those abusers who are largely Labor. I find ind curious that you never made any comments when I brought up this subject time & time again but now that you found a non-labor mutt doing it you emerge in your hypocritical glory.

Foxy, why do you think Howard sold off assets, to pay down what was then labors record debt, dwarfed only by the last labor governments debt.

....As long as everyone follows our laws and respects others beliefs, then it shouldn't matter where they come from.

Suze, you should have this framed and place a copy in every room of your house, because that is precisely the fundamental flaw in modern day multiculturalism, too many who come here today not only disrespect our laws and customs, but they also have an agenda to force their violent ways onto us.

This is why modern day MC, in Australia at least, is a failure, because certain groups come to to sponge off us, have little or nothing to offer and not content with just disrespecting us, they hate us.

Sorry, but if I was in charge they would not make it to the gate, let alone through it.

Poirot, these so called Australians, born here through Muslim parents, who leave to fight in their parents home land are living proof that MC has failed us, simply because they have not gained their hatred for fellow mankind from our teachings.

That religion/faith, call it what you like has no place here.

Lol!...rehctub...

"Foxy, why do you think Howard sold off assets, to pay down what was then labors record debt, dwarfed only by the last labor governments debt."

Around half of the debt confronting the Howard Govt was left over from Fraser's govt (you know, the one where Johnny Howard was Treasurer)

"The first point to note is that the $96 billion of debt inherited by the Howard Government from the Labor Party in 1996 comprised around $39.9 billion of debt accumulated by the Fraser Government under the Treasury-ship of Mr Howard and left to the Hawke Government in 1983! See Table 3 of Budget Paper 10 for more details.

As I discussed a while back, http://alturl.com/4o973 , when the Coalition talks of the $96 billion of Labor debt that it inherited, recall that just under half of it was in fact Liberal Party debt that was a hangover from the Fraser era that ended in 1983."

http://thekouk.com/blog.html#.U_Ka4meVogL

Dear Poirot,

Thanks for your support.

I'm sorry to hear about your mother but I'm glad that
she's doing well. Stay strong.

Dear O Sung Wu,

Thanks also to you for all your good wishes.
You have a good heart.

Dear Banjo,

I'm not interested in continuing to answer the same questions
regarding MC. Been there, done that.
If you don't get it now - you never will.

Dear rehctub,

Poirot has provided you with enough information
what you choose to do with it however, - is up to you.

Dear Constance,

Please allow me to apologise.

I did not mean to hurt your feelings by
questioning why you choose to cite an
American discussing American problems.
We lived and worked in Los Angeles for
over ten years (my children were born there).
And multiculturalism did not have specific
programs at the federal level - (except
at the school level in some states) and the
advertised myth of America being a
"melting pot," was a myth as was their theory
of "assimilation." It does not compare with
the programs that we've had in this country.
Thereby the reason for my initial comment.

It was not meant to insult you in any way.

http://www.boundless.com/sociology/textbooks/boundless-sociology-textbook/race-and-ethnicity-10/race-in-the-u-s-84/a-multicultural-society-493-3316/

Suse,
Yes, I do know what multiculturalism means, but given your praise and enthusiasm for MC I am surprised that you don't, or at least cannot state how we benefit from the policy. Not one advantage did you state. Even I, a non supporter, can see there are a greater choice of eating places.

No, I do not think our colonials should have embraced aboriginal culture. Some aspects I don't like, such as deflowering virgins with a wooden dildo followed by mass rape and the splitting boys penises with a sharp stone does not impress me. Polygamy and some foods were another downside.

So it appears that I will have to accept that neither you nor Foxy can outline the advantages of MC, let alone define them. It is strange that you embrace something yet cannot state its benefits. Oh, one of Foxy's links did give a pretty good history of MC in Aus.

Still looking to find the advantages of MC and diversity.