Frank wrote on Sep 18
th, 2019 at 6:22pm:
Multiculturalism means different things to people. Switzerland has four official languages and they are culturally compatible cultural and linguistic groups. Movement of people in Western Europe across countries is largely uncontroversial for the same reason. They are culturally compatible.
But the further away you move culturally the less support there is because there is less compatibility. Multiculturalism in the Bwianesque sense means everyone can get along with everyone else in Australia in particular and in Western countries in general - an obvious nonsense since there are lots of cultural aspects that are not compatible with other cultures - a commonsense point hardly needing to be made was it not for the Bwians of the world and the militant multiculturalists like him - and the cultural underminers whose fellow-travellers he and his ilk are.
The second part is the selective celebration of all-inclusive 'multiculturalism'. It's to be celebrated only in Western countries (which are naturally tolerant and outward-looking), even to the extent of adjusting their own cultures to those of incompatible immigrants.
The only culture that must not be celebrated in Western multicultural countries, on pain of being labelled a bigot, privileged, hegemonic, white, colonialist, etc - is Western civilisation itself. Only the host civilisation, the one that alone makes multiculturalism possible, Western civilisation, is stamped as always already incompatible with the wonderful 'multicultural' utopia.
Your problem is, Soren that you ignore the very real contract between the host culture and the migrant and their culture. Their culture is allowed and indeed encouraged to flourish under the auspices of the host culture on the condition that the host culture predominates and that they must abide by the existing legal system. The migrants agree to this when they sign on to come to Australia. You however attempt to paint them as still acting as if their culture predominates. It doesn't and the know that and are well aware of that.
In Australia, Multiculturalism is the official Government settlement policy for migrants. It is popular with them and the majority of the rest of the population. You are very much in the minority. Australia has proved that Multiculturalism works the majority of the population, the majority of the times. It is not perfect. No Government policy is perfect. You, however over-emphasis the relatively few failures of Multiculturalism without considering the overwhelming success stories. This is because it suits your warped and strange thought processes. You are not one of the 85% of the population that supports Multiculturalism, Soren. You are very much in the other 15%. Indeed, I'd actually suggest you're in the very small minority who utterly reject Multiculturalism.
So, lets ask a few questions about your behaviour, shall we? Do you reject ethnic food completely? Do you only consume meat and three veg at every dinner? Do you reject Danish food completely? Do you reject your old culture absolutely? Nothing of Danish design/manufacture in your house at all? Do you limit yourself to Indigenous Australian design/manufacture? Really? Or in reality do you have a mix of Danish and British and White Australian?
Soren, always remember, you flew here, I grew here as did at least 50% of the Australian population. Don't you think it's time you gave up your pretence to being a white, Anglo-Saxon/Celtic descended white settler? You're Danish. You're Nordic in origin. You belong with your own people. However, as you'll discover, you really can't go back to Denmark. It's multicultural as well now.