Hey macca, I was waiting for you to teach everyone what multiculturalism actually is - but seeing as how nothing's coming from your end, I'll tell you what is.
Multiculturalism was a failed attempt to achieve harmony between different cultural groups by encouraging each different cultural group to cherish and promote their different culture at the expense of every other different cultural group.
What it achieved was tribalism, the opposite end of the anthropological spectrum to that intended. The reason? - very simple. The misguided architects of the plan forgot that unless each different cultural group subscribes to commonly held core values present across all the different cultural groups then there can be no social cohesion.
Starting with the id!ot Whitlamites, there was so much emphasis on respecting differences that the need for commonality was overlooked. If those differences clashed with the commonalities, then so much for the commonalities. In this way, over time, with each group focussed only on its particular needs all commonality was lost sight of. And woe betide anyone who ever attempted to remind the different groups that there was a greater good than the narrow interests of any one group - they had to be racists surely?
So here we are, distrust abounding, no one in public life courageous to have the debate so absent-mindedly derailed by Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke, and Keating - though Keating being the self serving bast@rd he was only used racism to score political points.
There you have it macca. Read, learn and digest. If you need any further assistance to understand multiculturalism, please do not hesitate to ask.
