How have they not tried "a proper multicultural policy"?
The French have been explicitly assimilationist forever, even against minority cultures that predate the modern French state. They don't even collect national origin or religion data in their census, on the assumptiuon that everyone is French and just French."
The Germans ran a "guest worker" program and closed off the main routes for foreigners to integrate, such as citizenship, treating the presence of foreigners as a temporary thing even as the "guest workers" became second and third generation Germans.
Both policies have always been explicitly aimed at maintaining a dominant monoculture. If there's been failure, both have failed because they have sought to
shape, rather than merely
reflect, sociocultural reality.
You can't have more than one culture at a time, otherwise they will clash with each other. One culture will try to dominate another culture.
Bollocks. 25% of this country was born overseas, nearly 50% had a parent born overseas. China is the country of origin of the largest number of monthly arrivals in Australia, Islam and Buddhism are the fastest growing religions, Chinese ever expanding as a language presence along with a slew of others. Italian, Greek, Arabic and Vietnamese are, between them, spoken at home by over a million people in this country.
We are a living, breathing testament to the fact that culture is additive, not subtractive, and the presence of a multiplicity of new cultures and the resultant evolution of the existing ones, is a natural thing states should not seek to quash through misguided and counterproductive attemps to impose a monoculture or wish foreigners away.
Multiculturalism isn't multiracialism i think people get mixed up with that.
Encouraging immigrants to continue there old traditions, traditions, particulary islamic ones, which run counter to our values.
Beyond adherence to the law, what is it you expect of immigrants?
Start eating local food? Abandon their own cultural and religions festivals and holidys? Start playing cricket? Become middle class protestant conservatives? Seriously, I've never understood what it is people who oppose multicultural policy actually
want beyond wishing foreigners weren't so
foreign.
What is it people think states can
do, particularly within a liberal state founded on individual rights? Let's hear some concrete measures if it's policy you're complaining about and not just the presence of foreigny foreigners. Maybe we could ban Chinese New Year celebrations, or force people not to take time off for Yom Kippur and Eid, perhaps make alcohol consumption compulsory, forbid parents to teach their children their own languages, offer cash inentives to people who marry outside their nasty subversive minority cultures.
