"... the best thing about you Lithuanians is that on the
street you are indistinguishable from ordinary Australians..."

Ooh, careful.
That sounds like White favouritism = white nationalism = white supremacy = Nazism = Genocide!

How are you STEELEREDUX...

You know, it's jolly hard to remain irritated by you or what you've said for very long. I think the reasons are, there seems to be far more substance and vigour about you, than I could ever find in another contributor on The Forum. Simply known as our resident 'candy kid'. Furthermore, you don't seem to take yourself too seriously either, which is also most refreshing.

You've inferred over the months, perhaps years, there exists a certain dichotomy between us, to which I'd agree. You might argue the time's precisely 1400hrs and it's daylight. And I say it's night. I don't think you and I would ever find common ground on anything. Nor would we ever permit each other an accommodation on this topic, even though with many issues herein, you know I'm probably right.

The way we're going, it's foreseeable we'll end up in some form of armed conflict, between two widely divergent groups, if we don't stamp out the criminality occasioned by these Black African Youth's running amok down there in Melbourne Town, with their far, far LEFT, Premier Mr Danial Andrews. Someone will eventually die.

Particularly when they allow this Ms Mehreen FARUQI from the highly discredited GREENS, to peddle her inflammatory warnings, to us? Firstly it was Mr Bob BROWN,practising medicine from some remote 'Bush Hut'; then Ms Sarah HANSEN-YOUNG, with her TV (Navy) 'Sea Patrol' to protect our tenuous Borders - don't those sitting in parliament, have to pass some basic IQ test or other?

What precisely are her qualifications anyway to make these predictions? Is she so close to the radicalised components of Australian Islam, she giving us all a legitimate warning? If so, why doesn't she relay her concerns to the proper authorities, especially if she's a loyal Australian, in which she'd have to be, in order to enter Parliament. Or is she but, the first of a series of fifth columnist's to come through? Who'd know?

It seems we all have to ponder our sins for failing to fully agree with Foxy regarding immigration and immigrants...."I think we could all benefit from taking a few steps back...."

You see, in the wonderfully naive world that Foxy inhabits, all refugees should be seen as equally acceptable and desirable for the nation- "..you seem not to acknowledge the contributions made by people like my parents who came to this country as refugees."

You see,in this reading, refugees from eastern Europe, raised in Christian traditions and European values, with a similar heritage and culture to then Australia's are no less likely to integrate and inculcate those values in their offspring than that an immigrant from some god-forsaken village in the Afghan badlands.

Of course, this sweet naivety is somewhat offset by the assumption that anyone who doesn't buy this Disneyfied world-views is merely a racist swine.

Refugees we took in post-WW2 came from a similar culture to our own and had little difficulty in integrating into, accepting and lauding their new home. Even peoples we took in from non-similar cultures like the Vietnamese in the mid 1970s, had been exposed to European culture for decades and the subset we took were from those parts of Vietnam that were most influenced by and accepting of European values.

But taking people from cultures that are alien, and often hostile, to European culture is fraught. That their offspring seem even less accepting of their new home and culture is disturbing.

To be sure, this isn't true of the all such immigrants. Its not even true of the majority. So its easy to find examples of such immigrants who've 'made good'. But importing a peoples where some definable minority are going to be a detriment to the nation is an absurdity.

This isn't racism. If anything its 'culturalism'. Its the thinking that baulks at bringing in Iraqi Islamist but welcomes Iraqi Christians or Yazidi.

We are assured that having many cultures living together brings strength to a society. Historically there's no evidence for that and current experience leaves that assertion questionable.

Shocker,

The quote that I gave you was
said by Walter Jona, the than Victorian
State Minister of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs.

Rapid assimilation was strongly promoted by the
Australian authorities.

Hi there PAULINE1405...

Aren't we so clever to spell 'maggot', you will of course have noticed it has the same number of letters and syllables as the appellation 'coward'? 'Crims', also use several epithets for those who are lacking in; 'ah how should I put it' - lacking in 'daring'; 'Candy Kid'; 'Bush Bunny'; 'Juicy Fruit' and one particularly applicable to you...'treacle arse' (immovably stuck-fast, to your seat whenever there's a sign of trouble).

Ah gee you got me there, with that one, a real body blow - the delineation between the words dementia and demented? I'm metaphorically on the ropes - 'you dope' - ? Do you like that play on words?

I've just returned after a delightful afternoon tea prepared by my dear wife. Now where were we; Which of the above nick names would you prefer I use in describing you? Perhaps not the 'clarinet player', somewhat too unsettling I would've thought. Gee, we don't want our 'Candy Kid' running off making complaints to all 'n sundry, now do we?

Your trouble PAULINE1405, is your fondness in dishing it out, but when it's returned, you go on about it, all girly like, as if your petticoat has been trailed in the mud or something? I don't like the politics of this new Green Senator of yours, Ms Mehreen FARUQI, as far as the lass is concerned, on a personal level I wouldn't pretend to even know her. She may be a very pleasant individual, there again she may well be a shrew, I really wouldn't know - I suspect neither would you with all your fake claims that you know her?

I reckon you're the sort, who likes to make out you know all the major players, by trying to get a handhold anywhere on their garment's, which is all particularly sad really, for you at least?

"Rapid assimilation was strongly promoted by the
Australian authorities."

Rapid assimilation of White people.

Which is why pretending that past immigration ("a nation of [White]immigrants [in small numbers]") has any comparison to today ("a nation of [everything imaginable] immigrants [in huge numbers]") is ludicrous.

And no, I am not quoting YOU personally, I am referring to the popular slogan.