Hi Sooore,

If you mean by 'multiplicity', a multiplicity of ways of being Australian, then you're onto something.

Once we welcome someone to Australia, and if they become citizens, then they are fully Australian. They may continue to speak their original language and teach it to their children, since that is a right of all Australians. They may practice any religion they like, eat whatever food they like and marry whoever they like, within the common Australian law. They have all the rights of Australians.

There is no grading system in which some of us are more Australian than others, no bunyip hierarchy, no pecking order.

And all of those variations on being Australian contribute something to it which our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will thank us for.

Joe

FOULmouth,

I'm happy with that just as long as everyone acknowledges that we are now all Asian.

First time visitors to Australia make comments like "You're all so Asian."

A US guest on The Project made that comment to the panel and Peter Helliar and Kerry Bickmore looked at her quizzically as if to say"Asian? We're not Asian." All of a sudden it dawned on people watching the show around the country that we are Asian.

Misop,

So your racism has 'evolved' from being anti-Chinese to being anti-Asian now ? Can we expect it to soon 'evolve' (or degenerate) into just plain anti-foreigner ?

No, moron, we're Australian. Being Australian in 2020 is a bit different from being Australian in 1951, and thank god for that.

Asians, of any sensible definition, make up maybe 10 % of the Australian population and, if anything, they're becoming more Australian quicker than the rest of the population is becoming Asian (which itself will be changing rapidly), whatever that may mean.

My kids are Indigenous through their mother, Ngarrindjeri from the lower Murray Lakes. I have nephews and nieces with Polynesian and Filipino ancestry. They are every bit part of the national mix as anybody else. Who they mix with and who they marry is entirely up to them, not to some bureaucrat with a clip-board or slide-rule or colour chart.

The extent to which Australians become Asian is entirely up to Australians. The next generations who will have plenty of choice about who and how they mix with.

Meanwhile troglodytes will always have the right to stock up on baked beans and toilet paper, and retreat to their caves. You can still watch crap daytime TV down there too, Misop.

Joe. [Foulmouth]

well we are all either evolved from apes (some more than others) reincarnated depending on how well you lived you previous life (another lie from Hinduism) or we all came from Adam and Eve and then Noah and family. There is only one rational explanation and only one that really should prevent racism. Problem is people want to pick and choose.

Runner,

In your Adamic myth, we are all descended from Cain. And, of course, his wife, who I believe came from the land of Nod. So we are all Nodians too. For some reason, I've always thought that Nod was somewhere in Ethiopia.

All organisms evolve. This Covid-19 virus is evolving all the time. Nothing unusual about that. It's how every organism's DNA works, plugging along, reproducing/duplicating itself and every so often mutating. If there was a god, she would probably be evolving and mutating too; she would have dropped the beard long ago.

Joe

FOULmouth,

All I'm saying is that people around the world now see Australia as an Asian nation.