Dear Banjo,

<<Diversity is not the end aimed for, it should be integration and cohesiveness.>>

But for some, "cohesiveness" means a demand for assimilation into the 'all-perfect' "White" British-Australian culture.

So much for the issues with Middle-Eastern Muslims: criticism is indeed warranted, but what about the warts of the White British-Australian culture?

Yuyutsu,
I have never said that our Aus culture is perfect, those are your words so do not attribute them to me.

Don't worry there are aspects of our culture that I would change or abolish if I had my way. But it is our culture and I strongly object to government trying social engineering to alter it, by imposing some multicultural ideology. Cultural changes must come gradually and generated by the population. Each time we change to adapt to another culture we compromise our own culture. Like any other country Australian culture is unique, no other has it. It has good aspects and bad aspects but it is ours alone.

In reference to under-age forced marriage, many countries and cultures practice that and is completely alien to us. It has to be totally rejected, like honour killing or acid attacks by rejected suitors. Some cultures actually eat maggots and spiders, I don't think we would adopt that either.

Yuyutsu, Banjo doesn't believe white, Anglo culture is perfect. Banjo believes it's SUPERIOR. It's not just a "coincidence" that almost all the cultures he dislikes just happen to be cultures of darker skinned people. It's the old thing of "I'm not a racist, but .......". He likes to pick out the worst aspects of cultures he hates, then he compares that with the best aspects of what he thinks is Australian white culture, then comes to the conclusion that we are SUPERIOR to them. I've seen a few of his posts on similar subjects and they're pretty gross.

Banjo wants to socially engineer our culture so that it never, ever changes over time under any circumstances whatsoever. He wants his SUPERIOR culture to reign supreme. Little does poor Banjo know that the culture he holds onto is a PAST, pre 1950s culture of a bygone White Australia. Most people in Australia with Banjo type attitudes will be dead in 10 or so years due to their age ... relics of the past.

The past 70 years has seen Australia socially advance. Australia now has a vastly more educated, informed, tolerant, inclusive, advanced, world aware, wealthy and humane culture than it's ever had.

Dear Pesky Boy,

Humans have been blessed with four faculties, using which they can reach anywhere, including God. These are:

1) Rationality - The power to think logically.
2) Emotionality - The power to feel.
3) Ingenuity - The power to say: "Yes, I'll do it; No, I won't do it; or I'll do it, but otherwise".
4) Indomitable Will - The power to concentrate on the goal, comes what may.

These faculties need to be trained in order to achieve their full potential.

As a broad general statement, it seems that the latest Australian generations deserve congratulations for having successfully developed their Emotionality, which was lacking in former British-Australian generations. Rationality has remained at about the same medium level (due to a good start early on in life, but later compromised by drugs/alcohol). But Ingenuity and Will have declined: Ingenuity due the comforts and security offered by the state and Will due to overindulgence in sexuality.

The Lebanese-Muslim culture in contrast, can be characterised by high levels of Ingenuity and Will, but very low levels of rationality and emotionality.

All four are required for a meaningful success, be it material of spiritual.

pesky: Banjo doesn't believe white, Anglo culture is perfect. Banjo believes it's SUPERIOR.

By White Anglo-Saxon Culture you mean European. I don't know about Superior but most aspects of it are certainly is much better than the alternate. That's why the alternate cultures flood towards it.

Australian Culture is a mixture of all the various European Cultures. Can you give me an example of a Culture that is better than European/Australian Culture?

pesky: Australia now has a vastly more educated, informed, tolerant, inclusive, advanced, world aware, wealthy and humane culture than it's ever had.

Of course & it's all because of European Culture & Asian (Asian/European Immigrants & Refugees)

pesky: Little does poor Banjo know that the culture he holds onto is a PAST, pre 1950s culture of a bygone White Australia.

The Middle Eastern Cultured immigrants want to take Australia back to the 7th. Century AD. I take it you'd be happy with that, if so, maybe you should go & live in the Middle East. Enjoy.

The P boy believes Australia now with multicultural is: "The past 70 years has seen Australia socially advance. Hogwash! Our society has degraded family; so one in every three boys have no live at home father, unheard of when I was a boy. Our society is now immature, selfish, suspicious and consumer oriented. Loyalty and responsibility to family rates low in many males minds.

PB speaks about Australian culture [singular]. What culture does he identify with since Australia has adopted a multicultural society, or doesn't he believe in Multiculture. Diversity of cultures will bring conflict some based on religion, race, or skin colour, because they want to be in an enclosed community. Those that assimilate into the broader community have no problem.

A former Papua family friends of mine whose six year old son born in Australia attending an all white school in Western Sydney on visiting family in Papua could not accept the all black family even though he and his parents were black. The culture was different and he had only mixed with white children and their games and did not notice colour.