Although I can't be bothered reading most of the stuff I can somewhat agree with parts of what Leonard Pittsburgh says. I'm not going to take an opposite stance to try and prove to myself I'm not racist. It is what it is and quite normal I think to have some of those feelings. I just don't feel anywhere near as strongly about it as Leo.
Leo's thoughts on multiculturalism ... View them in the context of what we currently have maybe? :
"• Australia's last federal multicultural policy statement was issued in 2003 and intended to apply until 2006, with no new federal multicultural policy statements being issued since. In the past ten years, at the national level multiculturalism has been subjected to criticism in public and political debate, with some expressions of support for earlier policies of assimilation and integration. • Australian public and political debate about multiculturalism in the last decade has been significantly impacted upon by issues that have had international resonance. Chief among these has been concern about the global threat of terrorism and the challenges of ensuring social cohesion in societies characterised by ethno-cultural diversity. While these issues have manifested in different ways in immigrant-receiving countries in Europe, North America and in the United Kingdom in many cases public debates have questioned the limits of multiculturalism and governments have heightened their regulation of integration, citizenship and immigration. • As global migration increases in scale and complexity Australia, like many countries in the world, will continue to be faced with the challenges of constructively engaging the policy frameworks it has established in building a multicultural society, while finding innovative approaches to deal with the increasingly complex nature of contemporary diversity." (bold mine)
As in any real push to further 'the cause' has been dead for a decade. Unless anyone knows of a big push for multiculturalism [as opposed to some tolerance?] in the country since 2010 ??? Yet Leo still continues to beat the drum 'n preach, preach, preach ... He seriously can't expect to go back to The White Australia Policy surely?
Japan has a very old and proud culture. They're quite racist but they're just much more polite about it. They're not going to make the same mistakes as us.
Old and proud cultures?
Japan - Google Sarin Gas Attack
Pakistan - Google Schoolchildren Murder
Norway - Google Anders Behring Breivik
A Professional Demographer to an amateur demographer:"negative natural increase will never outweigh the positive net migration"
But you failed to make a very strong case for siding with the demise of my own lineage and ethnicity in my own country. I am supposed to change my mind on what I see as the destruction of my culture and country on the basis that you have some ethnic friends and some multicultural fluff statement about 'enrichment' - a multicultural fluff word that belongs right up there with 'vibrancy' and 'diversity'?
I don't have to make a case for what won't happen. Your lineage will continue.
You won't change your mind because you can't change your mind, so that's a non-issue.
You are frightened of what you think might happen. I find that fear hard to accept from an adult.
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We are heading back to the stonage, with barbaric ways and killings from ancient times. We only stopped a beheading on the streets of Sydney a few weeks ago, only to have some gunned down and killed weeks later.
Wtf is the government and people supporting this nonsense doing to us ?
What beheading??
Newjerk? can you try harder than dig up another person's blog. My first promo was with Billabong and my name in English is modified with a T, am Perth born but also lived in Sydney to make my $$ It's Absolutely Fabulous if it includes brilliant locations, & high calibre tenants..what more does one want? Understand the power of the two "P"" or be financially challenged Even better when there is family who are property mad and one is born in some entitlements.....Understand that beautiful women are the exhibitionists we crave attention, whilst hot blooded men are the voyeurs ... A stunning woman can command and takes pleasure in being noticed. Seems not too many understand what it means to hold and own props and get threatened by those who do. Banks are considered to be law abiding and & rather boring places yeah not true . A bank balance sheet will show capital is dwarfed by their liabilities this means when a portions of loans is falling its problems for the bank.
I don't have to make a case for what won't happen. Your lineage will continue.
You won't change your mind because you can't change your mind, so that's a non-issue.
You are frightened of what you think might happen. I find that fear hard to accept from an adult.
It is happening now - open your eyes. I am responding to what I can see. I am not frightened about it just bewildered that so many people can embrace their own demise and think they are righteous because of it. I find it hard to accept that adults can have the sense of self preservation of a child. Historically people understood the dangers of what western people today embrace - like I said it's a disease - PCing ourselves out of existence.
Leo.. the #illridewithyou social media hashtag has gone viral and sent a powerful message its popular. What exactly does that mean??what is it essentially saying?That you cant let terrorists win ..
The vast majority of people are good Leo..try and remember that.
As I mentioned previously, its about mental instability it happens in whatever races, migrants come to a country for a fresh new start.. for opportunity usually. I am disgusted that this nutter was given a second chance in life & endanger the very nation that accepted him.
Newjerk? can you try harder than dig up another person's blog. My first promo was with Billabong and my name in English is modified with a T, am Perth born but also lived in Sydney to make my $$ It's Absolutely Fabulous if it includes brilliant locations, & high calibre tenants..what more does one want? Understand the power of the two "P"" or be financially challenged Even better when there is family who are property mad and one is born in some entitlements.....Understand that beautiful women are the exhibitionists we crave attention, whilst hot blooded men are the voyeurs ... A stunning woman can command and takes pleasure in being noticed. Seems not too many understand what it means to hold and own props and get threatened by those who do. Banks are considered to be law abiding and & rather boring places yeah not true . A bank balance sheet will show capital is dwarfed by their liabilities this means when a portions of loans is falling its problems for the bank.
Leo.. the #illridewithyou social media hashtag has gone viral and sent a powerful message its popular. What exactly does that mean??what is it essentially saying?That you cant let terrorists win ..
The vast majority of people are good Leo..try and remember that.
As I mentioned previously, its about mental instability it happens in whatever races, migrants come to a country for a fresh new start.. for opportunity usually. I am disgusted that this nutter was given a second chance in life & endanger the very nation that accepted him.
That everyone jumped on this twitter craze thinking it was all warm and fuzzy without reading the anti-Australian subtext just proves how entrenched the PC mental illness is. Of course the subtext from #illridewithyou is that the average Australian is irrationally and violently bigoted. Muslims are portrayed as the victims and Australians as the persecutors. Even as Australians were being held hostage by a deranged Muslim, Muslims were ushered into the victim chair.
BTW :It would appear the woman who started #illridewithyou has a few issues. Like a psychopathic hatred of white people.
I’m learning about hate because I am coming to hate you, white person. You have all the control, all the power, all the privilege, and there is nothing holding you accountable. I hate the double standards and hypocrisy you display, the rank dishonesty of your conduct. I hate that you can harm us, when we cannot harm you.
As if just to prove how entrenched this PC mental illness is, the rabbit hole goes even deeper. It turns out the story that inspired #illridewithyou was "editorialised" i.e. made up
“Confession time. In my Facebook status, I editorialised. She wasn’t sitting next to me. She was a bit away, towards the other end of the carriage,” she wrote. Ms Jacobs now says she wonders if she even needed to help."She might not even have been Muslim or she could have just been warm!,”
.......But none of those words came out, and our silent encounter was over in a moment.
So at least tell me the benefits of multiculturalism using some quantifiable metric and not the usual multiculturalist fluff - 'vibrant' and 'diverse'. Tell me the benefits to the average Australian. I'm open to changing my mind if someone can show me the benefits of multiculturalism out weigh the harm it does to my fellow Australians and my country, until then I see it as displacing and replacing our lineages and ethnicity in our own land. A folly of historical proportions.
"Studies conducted in several United States cities by Florida (2002) and Saxenian (2011) found that this intermingling of different skills and perspectives has a positive correlation with business, technological and cultural innovation. They also found that immigrant entrepreneurs play a vital role in directing trade and investment through their home countries, thereby increasing cross-cultural markets, and directly improving the economy of their country of settlement.
An Access Economics Fiscal Impact Model, commissioned by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, examines the impact of migration on the Commonwealth budget. Its 2009-10 figures show that the net economic contribution of around $880 million in the first year of arrival will rise to about $1-2 billion after 10 years. This demonstrates that as immigrants settle into their new home their capacity to build our economic prosperity increases.
This effect is supplemented by findings that the second generation of migrants has, on average, a higher educational attainment, higher employment and lower unemployment rates than the children of Australian-born parents. Furthermore, 49% of all persons holding higher degrees were born overseas.
These findings underline the distinct immigration trend over the last two to three decades of more skilled and highly educated migrants entering Australia. In part, this has been because the need for unskilled labour that was seen as imperative for nation building in the post-war years has diminished. Those migrants who did enter Australia in that post-war period, however, made an indisputable contribution to the infrastructure development of NSW which has helped fuel economic growth from that time forward.
The current preference for skilled migration has also helped to somewhat immunise the economy against the Global Financial Crisis. Between June 2008 and June 2010, recent migrants accounted for 63% of job growth during that period with 79.3% workforce participation rates for those who had arrived within the six months prior, compared to 65.3% for the national average. Skilled migrants averaged 95% participation."
From a paper "The Economic Advantages of Cultural Diversity in Australia" link here
Multiculturalism does not go back to the first convicts transported here.
So you think that the Irish and English who first settled in Australia were culturally the same? Are you even white?
Look at the movement of the Irish into Scotland in the 1800's. The ructions still exist.
The Irish, English, Welsh and Scots were not the same culture. And therefore a multi-culture. Not to mention the Chinese & various Europeans. Read the Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni and take note of the surnames in the book.
Chris
21 Dec 2014, 02:51 PM
Modern day Australia is devoid of what it means to be an Australian, most have a vague concept of it in historic terms of mateship, determination, fair go etc but almost no one practises this let alone trying to have it define our nation.
Can someone please tell me when this egalitarian and altruistic Australia existed?
This countries first 200-odd years history after white settlement is rich white men stealing from the white poor. The mateship and fair go myth is propagated for the proles.
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