Foxy,

Australia is now part of Asia.

That was the purpose of the Asianization process.

It was a geographical integration.

This is why we are now all Asians.

Misop,

Dumb-dumb: who uses public transport ? Disproportionately: newcomers, students, people without cars, women and older people. Would they ne likely to be, in your ridiculous terms, Asian ? Possibly.

Who DOESN't use public transport ? People with cars (and private parking spaces), men, affluent and upper-class people, people between 18 and 70 years, etc. Are these likelier to be Asian ? I don't think so.

Sociology 101.

As for who and what is 'Asian': in Iran alone, there are probably hundreds of ethnic groups, they've been there for many thousands of years in some cases. Part of Syria's problem is that it has militarised very long-standing ethnic and religious distinctions. Turkey is a mish-mash of ethnic groups, some never yet conquered by the Turks.

And India: hundreds of language groups, a multitude of different gods. As a compromise, three official languages nation-wide and a plethora of official local languages.

Burma: a patchwork of different ethnic groups, languages.

Indonesia: an official language, but a multitude of local languages. People are as likely to proudly call themselves Javanese or Sumatran or Balinese as Indonesian.

A dozen Chinese language groups that I can name, and I don't know much about it all.

Afghanistan: my god.

Filipino/Filipinas ? Hundreds of local groups, languages, animist, Muslim and Christian groups.

North-South Vietnamese, minority groups like Hmong and Muong and Cham. Vietnamese-Chinese.

Thailand ? Another multitudinous country. Laos and Cambodia ? Same-same.

So if you're assuming some sort of gigantic conspiracy whereby all 'Asians' come together, in their totality of 12 %, to take over Australia, dream on.

Joe

Thanks Joe - Australia is a great mix of people
and when you look back at some of our explorers
they were a mix as well. From Hartog, Dirck,
Jantszoon, Willem - Abel Tasman, all
Dutch, to Baudin, Nicholas La Perouse, Jean Francois -
both French, to Strzelecki, Paul - and Tadeusz Kosciuszko -
both Polish, to Ludwig Leichhardt - German,
just to name a few.

I remember being told by a Catholic priest, Principal of
a private Catholic school here in Melbourne at a function
how I wasn't a "typical migrant" . He was going by my
married "foreign" surname. And he meant it as a compliment.
I couldn't help thinking "That may be father, but you're
a typical Irish priest!" And then I thought - I'd better
behave - or God 'll get me for it.

pseudo-mouth,

If you had done an Arts degree and studied things like history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, etc. you would have learned that Asia is an geographical region not simply an 'Asian' cultural/ethnic enclave as you seem to think.

Apart from being a pie baker what other jobs have you had; engineer, accountant, lawyer, etc? You know, all the vocational things.

Misop,

I wonder if you've ever walked through a university; probably on s school excursion. I hope you can eventually pass your secondary schooling and enrol at one.

I did Asian Studies with a wonderful team at Flinders, led by the amazing Graeme Hugo, now deceased. Just lovely people. Graeme caught malaria in Indonesia, and used to lecture and tutor while he was shivering and shaking.

I have to admit that at that time, forty years ago, I was far more interested in Asian Studies (and African Studies too) than I was in Australian Studies. Still am, in many ways.

Joe

pseudo-mouth,

How many degrees does that make it that you have?

I think I've counted 12 so far.