News from around the globe that the newspapers seldom print

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While I agree with most of the material passed on I may not be in agreement with all. However there is much we can learn from some that we disagree with. Remember it was once thought that the earth was flat.

It is left to your judgment to determine what you agree with and what to act upon.

24th March 2005

Multiculturalism Since the 1960’s and the subsequent imposition of the multiracial society on the Australian people has had a enormous and deleterious effect on our way of life.

While we are more or less in control of what happens at home, in private, in the public arena we are fast becoming merely one in the crowd. Prior to the creation of multiculturalism this hardly mattered because we were all much of a muchness and the overwhelming majority subscribed more or less to the same way of life and understanding of the world. Of course there were immigrants before the 1960’s but in those days their number was small and they weren’t able to sustain their own cultures embedded within our culture and thus they tended to be absorbed by and become part of the whole.

For the past forty-odd years successive governments have encouraged, allowed, and turned a blind eye to third world immigration of such magnitude that now third world cultures, which are naturally competitive, are sustainable in our midst. And since cultures have a public as well as a private expression, alien cultures are now impacting on our public space which, just forty or so years ago, reflected exclusively our understanding of the world; now it’s being used to express other understandings in competition with our own.

Mass third world immigration has logically and predictably led to the dilution of our homogeneity. And as a consequence our relationship with public space has changed. Where once it mirrored us now it’s more like a fairground hall of mirrors; we recognise less of what we see and that what we do recognise has been distorted out of shape.

In order to manage this change so as to facilitate the development of multiculturalism the establishment, has taken charge of public space. And in so doing it has restricted the public expression of Australianism to make room for alien cultures and alien world views. As a consequence the people of Australia have been alienated from that which was once exclusively their public space.

Retreat from community

People hark back to the time when we could leave our doors unlocked without fear and when there really was such a thing as community spirit. Nowadays we live behind locked doors, windows, and gates. Our houses and cars are alarmed, and what passes for community, especially in our towns and cities, is something that a growing number find at best meaningless and at worst totally alienating.

Strong evidence of growing dissatisfaction shows that what we’ve gained hasn’t compensated for what we’ve lost. There are two essential and complementary facets to life, family and community, private and public, and life is incomplete without both.

On message

Whether it’s in the form of the political indoctrination of schoolchildren, the favour of ethnic minorities over the indigenous population, or the simplest notice in a public library; the local authority always puts an internationalist slant on its actions.

 Traditional British/Australian festivals and their public celebration have been sanitised into meaninglessness so as to ensure their compatibility with the myriad cultures that now inhabit the country. Christmas has been corrupted into a festival of spending, Easter is being elbowed out of the way , Many Kindergartens and schools enforce political correctness in avoiding Christian acceptance.

In a vain effort to compensate for this marginalisation of British/Australian cultural festivals, the establishment organises its own multicultural events. Their aim is to bring together Australia’s disparate cultures under the umbrella of multiculturalism and within the parameters of political correctness. They don’t work. Real cultural celebrations are an expression of the community, whereas those that are imposed from above are essentially meaningless.

Is there any wonder our urban life is so soulless? It’s been eliminated in the cause of multiculturalism.

“Empowering the community…”

At the moment when anyone mentions the word ‘community’ one immediately thinks of ethnic minority communities. For they’re the only communities that are recognised as existing; Dinkum Australian communities on the other hand are an anathema to the establishment and indeed it has spent the past forty odd years trying to destroy them. So clearly any community that the establishment wishes to ‘empower’ must be a community that conforms to liberal-left ideology; preferably a multicultural/multiracial community. But they can’t possibly “empower” a White community because their whole philosophy is founded on the idea that such thing doesn’t exists.

Beautiful irony

Prior to the imposition of multiculturalism probably most Australians were hardly aware of their British/Irish Australianism, particularly those who’d not travelled abroad. Culture is a term of opposition. And without other cultures against which to compare one’s own, most people will be largely unaware of their own culture – they see it as just the way things are done.

And it wasn’t until foreign cultures began to form in our own land and appear in our public space that we began to ask questions about our own culture and identity. We’d no need to do this before except in an academic sense.