Foxy,

You and many others have failed to see the aim of Australia's Asianization policy (aka Australian Multiculturalism) over the past 40 years, being the integration of Australia into Asia.

I believe that the formal agreement this week by the Commonwealth to include Australia in the Asian Regional and Comprehensive Economic Partnership was the milestone in what I call the Great Asianization Period (1980-2020) in Australian history.

We are now formally recognised as part of Asia so I think we need to a national identity that matches that great moment in history: Australianese.

Anyone who refuses to accept it is just being racist.

Mr O,

Being such a self-proclaimed scholar -
why don't you look up what "Australianese"
actually means. It may clarify things for
you.

cont'd ...

Your troll-like behaviour and attempts at
provocation - does you no justice.
It's a turn-off.

Foxy,

I just looked up 'Australianese' on the web.

Perfect! It now also connotes Australia as an Asian nation-state (c/o Mr Opinion.)

Mr O,

It says nothing about Australian as an Asian-state.
Australianese - is merely referred to as the type
of English spoken in Australia.

As for Australia being an Asian-state. With only 10%
of the population identifying as Asian - that's an
absurd statement. There's far many more Greeks, Italians,
and others, who could lay claim to Australia.

Time for you to get a different song-book.

Hi Foxy,

And there are hundreds of groups of Australians with some Asian ancestry, i.e. ancestry from Yemen to Japan, from Armenia to Indonesia. Even 'Chinese' means probably a dozen groups or more, from Cantonese, Hokkien (my kids have a Hokkien gr-gr-gr-father, he came out as a miner in the 1850s), Hakka, Tiewchew, Shangainese, Szechuanese, Uighur, Tibetan, and a few, much more recently, from around Beijing.

I suppose our Village Idiot has some sort of weird obsession with that 10 % - or maybe 10 % of 10 % - or maybe a lot less - of all 'Asians' who speak his Beijing dialect and, as he seems to allude to, adhere to a pro-Beijing and pro-CCP line. I don't think they will ever be anything but a very small minority.

And with such a multitude of ethnic groups and languages across the country, and English-speaking groups being in the great majority, and all of those ethnic groups (usually in the second and subsequent generations) inter-marrying, I don't see any possibility of English being displaced as the common language. It is, after all, the common language of 300 Indigenous language groups already ;)

Yes, Australia will always be geographically near Asia; we will increase our economic and social integration with Asian countries. That's as it should be in my book. Perhaps Misopinionated would prefer to sit on a wall in some piddly English village and hurl his waste and curses at passers-by ?

Joe