Chris Lewis said-

"But I don't agree that a Western society stops being Western simply from a changing ethnic makeup."

Answer-

Do you think Tibet can be Tibet without Tibetans. Or Israel without Hebrew's. I don't think Australia can be Australia without British Australian's. The USA wouldn't even be the USA if we substituted Australian's. To me this is a way of removing British Australian's "from the room". Even international business people are starting to realize the fallacy of their greedy Globalist policies.

Saying that a country doesn't need it's people is to deny the concept of culture. Just because for example The West invented science doesn't mean that The West are a bunch of arbitrary scientists.

Herodotus from memory is the founder of the concept of culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus

I believe the Open Science Movement has been influential in Multicultural Policy in science sub-culture.

There appears to be confusion between culture and mass culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture

In the United States, Lindlof and Taylor write, "Cultural studies [were] grounded in a pragmatic, liberal-pluralist tradition."[47] The American version of cultural studies initially concerned itself more with understanding the subjective and appropriative side of audience reactions to, and uses of, mass culture; for example, American cultural-studies advocates wrote about the liberatory aspects of fandom.[citation needed] The distinction between American and British strands, however, has faded.[citation needed] Some researchers, especially in early British cultural studies, apply a Marxist model to the field. This strain of thinking has some influence from the Frankfurt School, but especially from the structuralist Marxism of Louis Althusser and others. The main focus of an orthodox Marxist approach concentrates on the production of meaning. This model assumes a mass production of culture and identifies power as residing with those producing cultural artifacts. In a Marxist view, the mode and relations of production form the economic base of society, which constantly interacts and influences superstructures, such as culture.

OK, CM, if you going to use selective evidence, why don't you write off the US, UK, Canada, France and every other advanced Western economy.

It is your choice if u want to claim each culture needs one race, but I don't agree.

Canem Malum,

I disagree with the idea that Herodotus developed the concept of culture.

Have you heard of Franz Boas (Margaret Mead's PhD supervisor)?

Regarding hobbit size one can ask why mice have very small balls. The answer is obvious. Very few know how to dance.

If we look at the origins of the British people they
are a mixture of a multitude of invasions and
settlements over centuries with arrivals from Scandinavia,
Germany, France, and prior to that the Roman Empire.

Since the formation of the British Commonwealth an influx
of various cultures from various colonies contribute to
the British mixture. Even the royal family is a mixture.

Outside Australia's Indigenous people, we are all immigrants
or descendents of immigrants - some earlier than others - but
all with an experience of immigration during the foundation of
modern Australia.

Australia is part of the New World, the world of immigrants,
not part of the Old World or the places they embark from.
This is why we are suspicious of inherited titles and
privileges. Nobody can afford to get too precious about their
position or entitlements in this country because we all know
that position and entitlements are comparatively new.

Australia's immigration experience is also a broad one.
And all these communities have made successful contributions
to Australian life.

Our history books used to tell us "The First Fleet arrived.
It brought 1000 English convicts". It didn't. It brought
1000 convicts but probably they came from a dozen different
countries. English jails were no respecters of nationality".

The first Italian arrived on January 26, 1788 - Giuseppe Tuso.
There were people from South Africa, there were people from
Ceylon, from India, from Spain, from Portugal, from Hungary.

So when people ask - "Do you believe Australia should become
a multi-racial society?" It doesn't really matter what any
of us think. We can tell what it is, which is a society of
tremendous diversity

Foxy,

Yes ....... and now we are all Asian as a consequence of the Great Asianization Period (1980-2020) in Australian history.

Embrace your Asianess Foxy.