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Acid never said it was a multicultural pursuit -but the cooking of ethnic food is best done by the ethnics [noone does chinese like the Chinese]

I wont eat ethnic food unless I see a cook of the right nationality in the actual restaurant kitchen.

just because some restaurant may have staff and cooks of a particular ethnic heritage doesn't mean they still live that way

They are still cooking food the same way. There is nothing about multiculturalism that says people have to stay the same. I eat asian food, so I have taken on parts of their culture. This is a good thing. They are welcome to take on parts of our culture. So long as we aren't forcing them to do anything, this is also a good thing.

Every aspect of culture could be singled out like that and according to your argument, it wouldn't be culture. eg, I'm not Japanese, I jsut wear a kimono.

Australia has a culture and it will keep evolving what you advocate is cultural apartheid.

What exactly do you think I am advocating?

So you equate multiculturalism with cultural apartheid?

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I can tell you having lived in an Asian country for many years that cooking rice is not simply popping rice into a plastic container, filling it with water and pushing x amount of minutes on the high setting in the microwave.

I've noticed that rice cooked by Westerners looks and taste different than those cooked by Chinese and different again by Malays. I've noticed that there are 2 simple techniques which Asians apply that most Westerners don't. The result is that the rice is whiter, fluffier and taste better. I can tell you what that step is but in a multiculturalless society you would never know what that is unless you've been there.

As for cooking lasagna, there's the easy way, frozen - just pop it into the oven or there the homemade fresh one. Which tastes better.

A recipe is a recipe which can be read and learnt. Technique however, is taught. As Dropkick said, no one does Chinese like the Chinese.

Take martial arts - every serious martial artists eventually travels to the country of origin to learn the traditional methods from the traditional masters. No one does it better than the inventers. And furthermore, you wouldn't get martial arts without multiculturalism.

The chinese do eat some very bad food. The fact that it is Chinese doesn't make it special, it's the fact that we can afford the good stuff.

There are superficial similarities between the situation in Western Europe now and the one in the 5th century, when a decadent civilization was overrun by the barbarians. The population movements we are witnessing now are the largest and fastest in human history. In Europe, they can only be compared to the period often referred to as the Migration Period, following the disintegration of the Roman Empire. Yet we now have communications that can transport people anywhere on earth within hours, and media outlets that show ordinary people how much better life is in other countries. On top of that, the Romans didn’t have human rights lawyers advocating that millions of outsiders should be allowed to settle in their lands.

In some ways, what is going on now surpasses the downfall of the Roman Empire. It has never happened before in human history that an ethnic group voluntarily finances other ethnic groups to advance their culture on their territory to the detriment of their own people. Native Europeans are paying people who openly declare to be our enemies to eradicate our civilization and are told to celebrate this as tolerance. This happens against a backdrop of broken families, social pathologies, widespread abuse of drugs and booming crime rates, while we are shopping expensive Gucci purses and watching naked people do strange things in reality TV shows.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/multiculturalism-and-enlightenment.html
Multiculturalism is one gigantic-CON!!
Try transporting it to muslim countries or Japan!