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Australia has a culture - Multiculture is NOT required

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LOL
Now that was a funny post. Not to mention totally naive.

"What is wrong about Australia reflecting the many interesting cultures of the different races and ethnicities? "

What's wrong with Australia reflecting it's own culture?

You people seem to think it is ok for everybody else to have and preserve their ethnicity and culture but it is not Ok for Australia and Australians to have a culture. What gives?

That's hardly going to help you create your much treasured diversity now is it.

Let's have one less culture...

We call the country Australia but Australian culture is not allowed.

We can have Italian culture here, Vietnamese culture here, Chinese culture here, Turkish culture here, in fact we can have any culture here except an Australian one. These cultures already have homes; Italy, Vietnam, China, Turkey, etc,etc etc...

Try living the Australian culture in Saudi Arabia and see what it gets you.
Posted by T800, Sunday, 24 September 2006 5:16:03 PM
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Saudi Arabia is a multiculture denied.

Yet it seems like you want to create exactly the same conditions here in Australia based on exactly the same logic the Saudi's use to deny multiculture i.e. 'strength through cultural unity'.
Posted by strayan, Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:01:06 PM
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T800,

Try living the Aboriginal culture in Australia and see what it gets you
Posted by Rainier, Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:33:36 PM
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Strayan as usual you like telling people what they think... yet you'll never make it as a mind-reader. You might consider going back and doing an English comprehension course too.

Rainer... why? I prefer living the Australian "western" dominant culture. Don't you? You might consider reading my topic in general before trying on strawmen. I don't mind debating the topic, but I don't like wasting my time with spurious claims and half thought out arguments. Oh and BTW I could name a few Aboriginal friends who prefer it too.
Posted by T800, Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:39:44 PM
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The trouble with multi-culturalism Celivia
Is that we can now have our arms and legs blown off by suicide bombers from these tribes we have allowed to take up residence in Australia if they happen to disagree strongly with Australian foreign policy towards the tribes they left behind. Obviously when they swore allegiance to Australia and the Australian people they were lying and whenever conflict breaks out with their old tribes it is obvious where their first loyalty lies.

Some of these tribes couldnt give two hoots aboutAngloAustralians or Australian culture they come here purely becaue they covert access to the wealthy resources and unending supply of land we have here. They want these resourses for themselves and their own children and Anglo Australian children dont figure in their plans at all.

We should be promoting intertribal marriage in this country or else it wont be a matter of different cultures in a century or two, it will be Australia divided up into to or three countries but not before much bloodshed
Posted by sharkfin, Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:42:39 PM
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Exactly, Strayan. Australians should not dictate people what culture they should identify with.

T800
Almost all countries once basically reflected one culture because there was not much migration.

Australia is one of the countries that have never been mono-cultural. There was already Aboriginal culture before settlement of white, Western people.

Did white Western people respect and adapt to Aboriginal culture? No. They even tried to destroy it.
Why haven’t early settlers adopted Aboriginal culture? Why did they insist on keeping their own culture?
For the same reasons perhaps, other cultures want to keep their culture- they like their culture.

Throughout most of Western Europe, where almost every country used to be mono-cultural, we have seen changes as well. Large amounts of immigrants or refugees from all over the world are now living in Western European countries.
Many Western countries have become multi-cultural. The original culture hasn’t disappeared.

It cannot be denied that in some countries multi-culturalism creates more difficulties than in others; they all have to adapt and this takes some time and organisation.

The problems are not due to multi-culturalism but rather to the original inhabitants and governments.
Adapting won’t happen overnight, but gradual improvements of dealing with the issue need to be expected.

The same in Australia- Australia’s culture should not have to be threatened by other cultures.
The rise of multi-culturalism does not mean that Australian culture has to disappear.
Why do you think that Australian culture cannot be included in a multi-cultural Australia?

I basically don’t agree that multi-culturalism automatically means Australia will be divided.
The social livability of a country’s communities depends on the quality of relationships between individuals and groups of people of different cultures.
Showing some tolerance and acceptance of each other’s cultures is going to unite Australia as a whole; not accepting or tolerating other cultures is dividing Australia.
If we all reject each other’s cultures, what would that do to Australia? If we all accept each other’s cultures, then unity will be possible.

Australians, let us all rejoice...
Posted by Celivia, Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:43:58 PM
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