claiming to be a cut above
Paul1405,
Now, isn't that exactly what those who choose not to work yet demand others support them are doing ?

"Does It Work in Australia?"
- Depends who you ask.

What does that mean?
- It means that some support multiculturalism and immigration whilst others don't.

Digging deeper.

It means that those Aussies that do support immigration and multiculturalism support the rights of foreigners more than they respect the rights of their fellow Australians.

They think they know better and by supporting immigration and multiculturalism will by default decide on behalf of the Australians that disagree with them;
- And the people that disagree they don't have any choice, and their opinions are considered heresy.

Why do the supporters of multiculturalism and immigration support the rights of foreigners more than they respect the rights of their fellow Australians?

Because those people who support multiculturalism and immigration probably themselves in some way identify as being an immigrant from another country rather than actually identifying as being Australian.

- And in turn they think that being Australian itself equates to being an immigrant;
- that we were never anything other than a ragtag bunch of random mixed foreigners than never had an identity of our own.

They don't think they are doing anything wrong, when maybe they never ever really fully became Aussies in the first place.

The idea of non-patriotic multi-ethnic countries would only potentially ever be promoted by a small few who's power and plans extended across national borders.
- People who plan to make and implement the rules for citizens of other nations.

Otherwise how would it ever come to be?

AC,

You may have to explain what you mean, that multiculturalism:

" ...... means that those Aussies that do support immigration and multiculturalism support the rights of foreigners more than they respect the rights of their fellow Australians."

What - Greeks, Maltese, Lithuanians, Chinese, Filipinas, etc. have had more rights than local-born Australians ? Perhaps if this were remotely true, there might have been fewer migrants working in our factories, building Australia, while the realities were that the local-born were more likely to move on up into university and professional careers, and then on the public tit for life.

Funny, when I was working in factories in the sixties and seventies, local-born Australians were distinctly in the minority, except in boss jobs.

Thankfully, those migrants were smart enough to make sure that their kids DIDN'T follow them into the factories, but did better than local-born kids at school, through sheer hard bloody work - and then went on to trades and higher studies.

Multiculturalism has built Australia.

Joe

Multiculturalism has built Australia.
Loudmouth2,
It's the selective Immigration that built this Nation, it's the willy nilly Multiculturalism that is hell-bent on wrecking that.

Dear Joe,

You're right about the contribution of migrants to
this country. If we just take a look at the migrants
arriving in Australia after World War II. They were
expected by the Australian Government to settle
permanently and to assimilate. This explicit policy
was highlighted in 1947 by the Assimilation Branch
of the Australian Department of Immigration.

Assimilation meant blending into Australian
monoculture. "with everyone living in the same way -
and sharing the same aspirations".

This was the government policy at the time. They also had
two year contracts that they had to fulfill. Which meant
they had to do as the government told them. They often were
separated from their families and were sent to work
wherever they were needed.

These two year contracts were the migrants first contribution
to Australia. They helped to solve an acute labour shortage in
Australia, especially in outlying areas.

Along with other European migrants they relieved the shortages
of domestic staff in hospitals, increased the output of
building material, helped to build Australian houses, saved
fruit and sugar crops, maintained railways, built roads, worked
in saw mills, brick factories, cement works, on sewerage
projects, water conservation, salt and brown coal mining,
clearing land, quarring, and much, much more.

Also lets not forget for those that remember the past through
rose-coloured glasses - that Australia began as a white
settlement in a land inhabited by Indigenous people. The
clash between them has left-long lasting consequences.
But that's not all - other conflicts developed along ethnic
and religious lines.

The settlers imported into Australia the conflict between
the Protestant English and the Catholic Irish. These old
prejudices and hatreds did not subside but flourished in
Australia until the early post WWII years - when they
finally began to wane.

A conflict also developed between white and Chinese miners
in the gold fields of Victoria and elsewhere during 1850s.
And there's more - but I won't go into the entire histories.
Suffice to say - Criticism of multiculturalism appears
to be in fashion lately. But it is not based on reality or
our history.

The only societies that work long term are multinational with similar values; societies with multi cult values end up with conflict at what is the acceptable values. That is where every western nation is currently in conflict.