Dear Mr Opinion,

On June 4, 1989 the Chinese government massacred those Chinese who protested at Tiananmen square. Bob Hawke allowed those Chinese students who didn’t want to go back to stay in Australia. One of those students was Yiyan Wang. She was having trouble with her husband and asked if her 6 year old daughter, Xiao Xiao, could stay with us until matters quieted down. Xiao Xiao stayed with us but was very unhappy. She spoke no English, and we spoke no Chinese. XX cried and cried. I called my friend Cam Louie who was a professor at the University of Queensland and asked if he would talk to XX. He told and assured her that her stay with us was only temporary until her mother and father straightened things out between them. We enrolled XX at the local public school. They had a Chinese speaking teacher visit XX twice a week. We let XX attend the religious education classes even though her mother and we are atheists. We didn’t want her separated from the other children. She came home singing “Who is Jesus”, and I taught her “Yessir, that’s my baby” as an antidote. That was years ago, but we have remained friends. When we get together we sing “Yessir, that’s my baby”.

Yiyan got her Phd, got divorced and is now head of a department at Wellington University in New Zealand. XX is a buyer for a fashion house and lives in New York City. Christmas of last year Yiyan, XX, XX’s baby and XX’s husband came from the US and NZ to visit us. It was a wonderful visit, and I think we all shed a tear at parting.

Next to our families Yiyan Wang and her mob are our closest friends.

Yes, I experience a debilitating medical condition when I read such crap from you “What would you do about Australia's invasive species: foxes, rabbits, cane toads, Chinese.” I don’t need to see a doctor. I just accept the fact that you are what you are. I will not answer any more emails from you.

david f,

You are one of the success stories of the Great Asianization Period (1980-2020) in Australian history.

Chris Lewis said-

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.

Answer-

Are you / weren't you based in western Canada? Your Tax Paper looks interesting but I couldn't access it through Tor. But I did look up the economist- an addition to my reading list.

I don't disagree with all of your views however I did on this one.

What selective evidence? Much of everyone's evidence is selective. You yourself said that academic journal articles are biased.
My evidence probably serves as a contradiction to your "evidence"- it probably is selective- but interesting.

You don't agree- that's fine with me. I believe that more people need to question the validity of certain paradigms- for their own interest.

For the record what I said was "Every culture should have their own nation" NOT "each culture needs one race".

My point is Australian's have been bullied/ engineered into Multiculturalism for fifty years by various special interest groups- probably since WWI and WWII- the implementation has created it's own momentum as more and more foreigners come to Australia- there is a large minority if not a majority of Australian's that believe that immigration policy and multiculturalism is wrong. Yet the authorities and institutions continue to ignore it.

I understand it's not easy to accept a view that threatens your world. Hopefully in the future we can find places in the world for everyone. However I'm concerned that some rely on feeding off the global hierarchy- rather than being self sufficient. I prefer self sufficiency. This is the irony of Locke.

Academia is currently a global pursuit- some have said that universities are now businesses and have lost their founding spirit.

Plato believed that philosopher kings could be created by centres of learning- now business emperors create centres of "learning".

A global hierarchy is the ultimate tyranny- see Alexis de Tocqueville.

All views have a place in Jung's Archetypes- Individual/ Social/ Chaotic/ Ordered/ Good / Bad. I believe that Jung created them so people could be more balanced.

Mr Opinion said-

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)?

Answer-

I'll have to check up on Herodotus.

http://www.britannica.com/topic/ethical-relativism

It appears I was referring to ethical relativism- I'm sure this is very important in culture- thanks Mr Opinion for your correction.

I'm not that familiar with Boas but are you referring to? (I'll need to add Boas to my reading list.)

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

The essence of Boas's approach to ethnography is found in his early essay on "The Study of Geography"...

This orientation led Boas to promote a cultural anthropology characterized by a strong commitment to

Empiricism (with a resulting skepticism of attempts to formulate "scientific laws" of culture)
A notion of culture as fluid and dynamic
Ethnographic fieldwork, in which the anthropologist resides for an extended period among the people being researched, conducts research in the native language, and collaborates with native researchers, as a method of collecting data, and
Cultural relativism as a methodological tool while conducting fieldwork, and as a heuristic tool while analyzing data.

Boas argued that in order to understand "what is"—in cultural anthropology, the specific cultural traits (behaviors, beliefs, and symbols)—one had to examine them in their local context. He also understood that as people migrate from one place to another, and as the cultural context changes over time, the elements of a culture, and their meanings, will change, which led him to emphasize the importance of local histories for an analysis of cultures

Foxy said-

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".

Answer-

Most of the locations and names look British to me.

http://firstfleetfellowship.org.au/first-fleetfirst-fleet-convict-database/

Name Surname Male/ Female Ship Trial Date Court/Asizes Crime Sentence Occupation Age Outcome

This looks interesting...

http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/sexuality-masculinity-and-politics-in-chinese-culture-the-case-of-the-sanguo-hero-guan-yu/FE0E474496C44B0D3EBA1D45FFD969B1

http://www.cambridge.org/core/search?filters%5BauthorTerms%5D=Kam%20Louie&eventCode=SE-AU

Hi Foxy,

Totally off the subject, finally picked up from the Brisbane City Library a copy of Tara June Winch's book 'The yield'. Just started reading and it's a very good work. I can easily see why it won this years Miles Franklin Award.

p/s A bit overloaded with library books at the moment, all my holds have come at once. I"ll have to get cracking with the above as I'll only have it for 4 weeks, due to demand, the last time I looked, 50 library copies and 150 holds, that's very high.