Misop,

"Introduction of ... " Do you mean back in 1788 ? Australia has been multicultural since 1788. We've all been the product of it: in my case, from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Sweden and England, and maybe from the West Indies as well. My kids could add Indigenous Australia and China to that beautiful mix. Of course, in your case, we might have to add in somewhere extra-planetary.

Don't they teach you anything in history and/or sociology ? Perhaps that might happen in second year, so give yourself time.

I did meet a lovely bloke who was a sociologist, when I enrolled at Flinders back in 1978: I apologised that I was a mature-age student. "Don't worry, so was I," he replied. Name of Leon Mann. Look him up :)

Joe

Mr O, there will always be a Team Australia, and it has nothing to do with what race you descend from.

Please wise up. I know you can do it.

LOUDmouth,

Just out of curiosity how much do you charge to haunt a house?

MR O, the US is a very divided country in racial terms?

As a sociologist, can you advise to OLO readers why this is the case?

There has been for some years, this phrase called "critical thinking" (from the Greek 'kritikos' - "able to make judgments)," which has pervaded academia in all disciplines from law to medicine to arts. It is a misnomer, an oxymoron in the same vein as "military intelligence" along with "common sense". For the Marxists, Feminists and others have seen to it that any 'criticism' is directed at the likes of those who disagree with them. Any 'thinking' must be in accord with the comrades. Therefore we see the rise of these critical thinkers, handing out summary judgments on all & sundry. Coming up through the ranks, many even finishing their apprenticeships in various think tanks or institutes of study & eventually into policy making where we have the electorate suitably dumbed down by watching Sunrise, Good Morning Australia, The Morning Show, etc allowing them into our lounge rooms daily, ultimately conjuring up social experiments like the Family Law Act (1974) under architects Lionel Murphy and Gough Whitlam. Continuing to visit unmitigated misery from its beginning, with fatal ramifications nearly 50 years later. Under the Howard government we saw creeping fascism, evident in the erosion of our personal freedoms, removal of common law rights and even draconian measures such as the raft of Surveillance legislation enacted. Various ALP & LNP misdemeanours along the way to detract our collective thoughts from more pressing issues in the Roman fashion of 'panem et circuses' (bread and circuses). And what of China this topic asks? It has not been an invasion as such, like Pauline Hanson might suggest, but more of a small & steady stream of ideological changes over some 25 years. That the CCP has ensured us a source of enquiring minds from their fresh crops of critical thinkers into our annual intake of students is no insignificant matter. Like the Japanese prior to WW2 who came here as geologists, scientists, engineers and academics who then went traipsing over our Sunburnt Country taking photos, soil samples, hydrographic data and detailed maps, likewise the Chinese have set up the next phase of their expansionist programme.

Got out of sociology after first year. I hated it, and anthropology.

I preferred history/politics.