Multiculturalism and the London bombings
It’s politically incorrect to question multiculturalism. I don’t worry about that, but I recognise that we can’t turn back the clock and change what’s occurred over several decades.
I do think it’s reasonable though to ponder if current tensions in Australia, and more particularly in Britain, would exist if our demographic composition had remained as it was before the Second World War.
It’s a fact that ethnic and religious rivalries exist. We can’t change that. We hope that when people come to a new country for a better life they adopt our ways and leave their prejudices behind. Most do, but many don’t.
You only have to look at some soccer matches in Australia to see the undesirable face of multicultualism. Games between Greek and Macedonian teams, Croatian and Serbian teams, sometimes incite bloodshed on the terraces.
Curiously, it’s the second or third generation arrivals who carry on the rivalry, suggesting it will never go away.
Australia and Britain now have significant Muslim communities. It’s British Muslims who are linked to some of the terrorist activity.
I respect the Islamic faith. What I can’t respect is the warrior culture among some elements intent on fighting a Holy War.
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It was interesting for you to notice that the 2/3rd generation is the one causing the rivalry. I was told by an Italian worman in her 70’s who has lived here for 40/50 years, that the younger ones in her family have romantizised their history and consider themselves Italians, as if, she feels this is so wrong. She ascertains that there is nothing to be romantic about. They came here to escape poverty and hunger, and she remembers being hungry and having nothing, no work or prospect of work. So have our older migrants misled their families over the generations, or did the big push for multiculturism a decade ago create these fairy tales. And do the Irish/Scottish/English Australians have any culture to boast about, as the Greeks and Italians do. Why do we cringe about our culture and why are Ozzies rubbished and made out to be such yobbo’s. We certainly love our sport, but we also love Opera, Theatre, reading, even our architecture was beloved by our blue singleted builders labourers. We should be more proud and not apologetic for being such a young country. The only Muslims appearing in the news are the one the media consider controversial, not the sensible moderates, who are not “newsworthy”. The media has a lot to answer for I think, for stirring up trouble where none exists. I know a woman from Somalia and also another from the Sudan, one is Muslim and the other Christian. Their cultural background is so different from ours, but when we talk, we find we all have the same worries and problems. Children and their behavior, and schooling, Recipes and buying food within our limited budgets, the good places to shop etc…..Their loneliness makes my heart ache. They will probably never see their families again. Being refugees they could not choose where they went when they were in the camps in Kenya. So one has family scattered in the UK and America. But they were so happy to be somewhere they could create a home for their children, and see them educated and healthy.