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Change Australian culture?

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1. Australia has a "culture", no need for "multi" "culturalism".
2. What is Australian culture? Answer: "Multiculturalism".
3. Conclusion: We do not need "multi" "Multiculturalism".
Anyone who is not happy with "Multiculturalism" , is not happy with Australian culture.
Can we "change" the "culture"?
Posted by P_Dox, Thursday, 9 August 2007 5:35:53 PM
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Australia's culture, like every other culture, is constantly changing with influence from the new and already established communities.

Cultures have changed throughout time for a variety of reasons such as neccesity, immigration, revolution and new technology. But even more so in the last 80 years have the worlds cultures changed dramatically due to the ability of mass movement of people long distances cheaply and the invention of TV and more recently, the internet.

People who try to stop culture change are delaying the inevitable, not too say people who preserve their heritage are going to die out, but people who do not adapt to changing technologies and culture are in for a fair bit of strife.
Posted by CodyB, Friday, 10 August 2007 10:06:08 AM
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Ofcourse culture can be changed. Everybody knows that. If I am not wrong I think P_Dox meant change from Multicultrulism to Monoculturalism.
Posted by Angela84, Friday, 10 August 2007 11:11:02 AM
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Multiculturalism is divisive and weakens the nation. It helped destroy the Roman Empire.

Do any apologists for multiculturalism ever wonder why this creed is only forced on White nations? Is China multicultural? Japan? Indonesia? Iran? Zimbabwe? The list goes on.

Do you want the Australian national identity to fade away?
Posted by JSP1488, Friday, 10 August 2007 12:09:37 PM
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We should always remember... that cultures don't 'change'...they are CHANGED.. and governments have a big hand in determining the direction and extent of the change.

If Government policy is structured in a way that is tantatmount to saying "There is no 'Australian' Identity" then any newcomer here who is passionate about his/her own culture will feel free to promote and advance their own, with no thought to how that might impact those already here.

Alternatively, if government policy sends a LOUD message "We have a culture and identity" then the likelihood is that people will tend more to identify with and adjust to that.

NEVER FORGET... that no change in a country, cultural or otherwise is without its political dimension. When governments 'do' things, they do it for a political reason, often couched in terminlogy like 'The National Interest".... but we were not born yesterday Mark(Vale) there is no 'vale' over our very seeing eyes.

You only have to ask 'who benefits' from the direction migration policy it given to know which party is behind it.

LABOR .. Blue collar emphasis. (refugees, trades migrants)
LIBERAL..White collar emphasis (Business migration)
GREENS..."Marxism State"
DEMO...who? "huh"?
Posted by BOAZ_David, Friday, 10 August 2007 2:24:04 PM
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BOAZ,

Seriously please read some history, and please take the scales from your eyes before you start reading.

Cultures change all the time. The late roman empire was a very different beast to the early version. Carolingan Europe is different to Hapsburg Europe.

Even Christian culture has changed over the two thousand years it has existed. From the early Christians (who were basically jews with different ideas) to todays roman catholics, evangelists and coptics, things have changed.

Change happens, get used to it. Sure it can be guided but it cannot be denied.
Posted by James Purser, Friday, 10 August 2007 3:28:19 PM
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