Originally posted by NT man
Glad your so optimistic acorn - bully beef for you! But as you just said, what if rebel was right? Take Australia - please tell me your thoughts on the following - we are, as citizens to tolerate all peoples that come to Australia as long as they respect our 'values'. What values are they acorn? Just looking at current immigration trends - we will have the Indians & Chinese vying for a dominant minority, that may turn to a majority in 20 to 30 years. I think it will be the Chinese. Anyway, sounds like you have your rose coloured glasses on - so all GOOD for acorn!
OMG !
So you're only comment is about the Indians and the Chinese ? Hmmmm. I suspect a theme .
Tolerating peoples that come to Australia ?
In case you haven't noticed, we are a nation of immigrants. Immigrants made a major contribution in building this nation.
Have a talk to some older people that can tell you about all the immigrants we took in to build the Snowy scheme. Ask them how we treated the Italians and the Greeks in the sixties and seventies and how many of them were ostracised. Now they are considered an important part of Aussie culture and are considered as Australian as the rest of us.
Ask older people about the ' Asian invasion ' in the late 70's and early 80's. They received the same welcome as the Greeks in many cases but look at them now.
I've got rose colored glasses on ? Pfffttt!
Do yourself a favor and get on a plane sometime and go overseas and see how the rest of the world lives. Or even better, do something really risky and watch the world news on SBS.
You don't know how good you've got it living in Australia.
