Foxy, Roast meats and vegs and gourmey bangers and mash are exactly the same orotein as any other nations meals.

Josephus,

You miss the point. Australia was a cultural backwater
with very little choices in food and culture prior to
the arrival of immigrants who demanded choices that
they were used to like - delis, Christmas decorations
made out of glass instead of balloons and paper streamers.
Australia was enriched by the choices that the immigrants
demanded. And has not looked back since. Variety of food,
leisure pursuits, the arts, everything changed. for the better.

Foxy what you are claiming as better is the tinsel and flavouring. Examine the product of Australia and see what we have given to the world. What is on your place that is not Australian product.

Josephus,

Once again you misunderstand me. All I am trying to say is
that today we have a number of other influences that have
also contributed to the development of the Australian
identity. As migrants arrived in Australia over the decades
they introduced new stories, traditions and perspectives to
Australian culture. The traditional concept of an
Australia as a white British colony, or a land of struggling
bush-dwellers no longer fits with the diverse new reality
of our society today.

As Australian society adapted to changing cultural
influences across the decades, whether they were British
to start, followed by American influences, Indigenous,
Asian or European the national identity continually
evolved in response.

In the face of globalisation, the future of Australia's
unique national identity is increasingly challenged by
the development of a global culture.

Over time migrants do disperse into the wider Australian
community leaving their unique cultural influence behind.
Examples include the Germans in the Barossa Valley of
South Australia, the Vietnamese in Cabramatta and
Springvale (Melbourne) and the Middle-Eastern influence
in Auburn.

The cultural richness today in this country covers a
very wide variety of not only food and leisure pursuits,
but the arts, visual aspects like streetscapes, and other
cultural traditions.

See you on another discussion. This one for me has run its
course.

Have a nice day.

British people are somewhat Germanic certainly much much closer than Vietnamese.

At least Vietnamese are more responsible as far as population control than the Chinese, India, and Africa. Still I think it's better to fix the problems in Vietnam rather than them be forced to come here away from their ancestral roots- just as British Australian's in the late 1700's and 1800's created a piece of stability and civilization in the south of the earth.

Every person has a limit to how much change and exposure to other cultures they can experience before they feel alienated.

Obviously when there are "issues" in a foreign nation and people find themselves in Australia they will experience alienation- but this is not the fault of the British Australian culture. The Australian Government has a responsibility to protect the interest of the Australian people- perhaps it has given away what it had no right to give away in the form of mass immigration- which is effectively an alien invasion.

Humans are territorial animals- some are more territorial than others- should they be forced to conform?

For thousands of years pieces of land were considered the property of different tribes- there were wars to take other tribes land- new technology was developed such as agriculture, industrialism, city states, nations, etc. After the world wars the world was in shock over the destruction.

It's only recently that widely disparate cultures have come in regular contact through transport innovations. Technology has often moved faster than social systems and can often have undesirable results. It's interesting that The Unabomber warned of the enslavement that often occurs through technology.

It's been less than 200 years since the west started having regular direct contact with the far east