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How I Lost Faith in Multiculturalism

04/02/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

By Greg Sheridan From: The Australian – “IN 1993, my family and I moved into Belmore in southwest Sydney. It is the next suburb to Lakemba. When I first moved there I loved it.

We bought a house just behind Belmore Sports Ground, in those days the home of my beloved Bulldogs rugby league team. Transport was great, 20 minutes to the city in the train, 20 minutes to the airport.

On the other side of Belmore, away from Lakemba, there were lots of Chinese, plenty of Koreans, growing numbers of Indians, and on the Lakemba side lots of Lebanese and other Arabs.

That was an attraction, too. I like Middle Eastern food. I like Middle Eastern people. The suburb still had the remnants of its once big Greek community and a commanding Greek Orthodox church.

But in the nearly 15 years we lived there the suburb changed, and much for the worse.

Three dynamics interacted in a noxious fashion: the growth of a macho, misogynist culture among young men that often found expression in extremely violent crime; a pervasive atmosphere of anti-social behaviour in the streets; and the simultaneous growth of Islamist extremism and jihadi culture.”  Read more.

 

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  1. Kurt Jorgensen's avatar
    Kurt Jorgensen
    04/02/2011 at 12:12 PM
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    I am decidedly anti-multicultural, even though my household is made up of a Caucasian, an Asian, and three Caucasians/Asians, a cat a hamster and sometimes about 3 million ants. I’m also extremely anti-illegal alien, but I have no problem with people who come here legally and integrate into our society. When my wife graduated from U of Western Ontario and was on her way to NYU to study she was asked at the border by customs “will you promise not to marry an American?” Her answer: “No!”

    I enjoy immensely all the different languages, foods, cultural expressions, etc. There is a place for celebration of one’s heritage, as long as it doesn’t divide us into “us and them” camps.

    There is almost nothing more irritating than having to “press one for English”!

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