I went to the Kernewek Lowender Cornish Festival on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia on the weekend. Visit www.kernewek.org

It was wonderful to see over 15,000+ people attending the festival celebrating the mining history of Kadina, Moonta and Wallaroo from people who came from Cornwall to Australia.

People were spending money in small businesses, many events were full and accommodation booked out and visitors and locals were really enjoying themselves.

Two youtubes below show one activity from the event and one from an event in Cornwall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYo-sihc058
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-UeB9VXPF0

With the above in mind, why do so many Australians fear multiculturalism - when they could be having a lot of fun and celebrating it? Sometimes I feel like telling 'racists' to keep their mouths shut and eat a Cornish pasty!

People are strange my friend. People are very strange...

NathanJ,

You are mixed up, which is hardly surprising given the multicultural politics being played by the hating leftists.

While the Cornish are a recognised minority in the UK and have always been much loved by ordinary Australians who are proud of their inheritance from the UK and the pioneering and nation-building of the early settlers, the political correctness of Oz 'Progressives' labels the Cornish as part of their hated Anglo-Celtic 'whites' (Australian citizens with British and/or Irish ancestral origins) that they (the 'Progressives') want diversified (diluted) out of existence.

The self-loathing leftists have always been crooked on (to use Australian idiom) our inheritance from the UK and now some parts of Europe as well :(

For God's sake don't mention those freedom loving Americans. The leftists will have a pink fit.

Elsewhere in the world there are teaming millions subject to awful totalitarianism, with wretched living conditions, lacking the simplest, fundamental civil engineering that ensures potable water, removal of waste and sewage that is fundamental to good health and basic freedoms we take for granted.

But no, the elitist political 'Progressives' aka International Socialists sledge and reject all of Australia's enviable (by the rest of the world) inheritance from the UK, to disrespect and deny it instead.

How to understand the leftists and their cringing cultural elitism, goodness knows. With them it is an emotional backlash not a reasoning thing, so what can one do? This journalist captures the emotional BS of the leftists as represented by one of the the fair-haired boys of the elitist literary set (Adams would like to think so anyway) and they have always been that way,

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/phillip_adams_on_how_to_be_a_moral_bullsher/

The Cornish, yeah great and there should be more of them. There, now I have upset the whining leftists.

".....There, now I have upset the whining leftists."

Lol! - far from it.

Your posts are becoming legendary, otb.

Funniest thing I've read today!

Nathan J
Celebrating Cornish "Culture" is just as stupid and pretentious as turning up to the Eid festival in Blacktown or going to an Irish theme pub. Your definition of "Racist" is also off, racists seek security in the primacy of their own culture, traditions and institutions, since multiculturalism is an Australian institution anyone who disagrees with it is by definition a dissident. So the last line of the OP is based on false premises, authentic Australian culture is based on multiculturalism, Methodism and our own idiosyncratic brand of social nationalism or nativism.
The "in group", the "racists" in that sense are people like you the "out group" are dissidents, contrarians and non conformists.

Yep you sure have the idea of multiculturalism wrong there Nathan. It was never about accepting migrants from anywhere in the UK, [even Jocks], or from western Europe. We even thought eastern Europeans were OK.

We never complained [too much] about those "reffos" brought in & chucked into the melting pot to sink or swim, by their own efforts. We recognised they came here to build a worthwhile life for themselves, even the 10 quid poms. We did whinge a bit about Mediterranean back, when some southern Europeans found it was easy to con a doctor & get on a disability pension.

The end is nigh Nathan, every day more people wake up to the con job pulled on them. No multiculturalism never had anything to do with people building a new life, it was a way of trying to force fair minded Ozzies to accept welfare for life bludgers from third world countries. The left want these voters, even though we all know they are here to bludge on us, & will build nothing, other than their ability to rip off the system.

You are not going to get real Ozzies to accept a new flood of boat people, or an increase of illiterate third worlders any time soon