
I agree with a lot of what you said , but you know the problem is now and has been forever the human animal, it can be fair it can be unfair , it can live and love and live and hate. Each and everyone of those critters is different and have conflict within their own kind let alone trying to mix with people who are totally different.Britain, Germany, France and Spain, amongst others, have never been "multicultural". They were colonial powers who went around annexing land all over the place and turning those "acquired" lands into British, French etc. outposts. They were in fact part of their colonial empires.
The peoples of these lands became citizens of the various colonial powers: they weren't asked if they wanted to be, they were told. That is why there are "Indian", "Pakistani", "West Indian" etc. etc people in Britain and the only reason I call them "Indian", "Pakistani" etc. is to identify their country of origin/heritage because by law, British Law that is, they are British. So when we hear the rantings of your Cameron's, Merkel's, Sarkozy etc. about how "multiculturalism" has not worked, what they really are saying is that their predecessors, the ones that went out and conquered foreign lands and their peoples, they stuffed up! They should have kept the strong ones to work and had a breeding pool from which to provide labour in the future; the others should have been liquidated and certainly never ever have been made subjects of Britain, France, Germany etc. and certainly not allowed into "the mother country".
The sanctimonious and bigoted mongrels in those European countries who go around saying "multiculturalism" hasn't worked are saying in reality, that if people aren't white and Christian, then they are sub-human and inferior and shouldn't be there.
As another person posted in this thread, when the white fellas were transported out here, there were at least two hundred "countries" in Australia with over four hundred distinct languages. These people lived in relative harmony with each other for thousands upon thousands of years. They traded amongst each other and married and developed sign languages to communicate with other peoples from different "countries" because their spoken languages and spiritual beliefs were completely different.
Our country has a multicultural tradition spanning 40,000 years plus and the rest of us who came here or whose ancestors came here, would never have left our country of origin if we were not forced to do so whether that was because of famine, persecution, war or all of the preceding.
Some were transported out here for stealing bread to placate their hunger, for heaven's sake!
This is a land of beauty and diversity and peace and we are making inroads towards reconciling ourselves with the Aboriginal peoples whose land this is. We, the majority of non-Aboriginals, are cast offs or come from those who were cast offs from other lands, for whatever reason and we should be having a ball here instead of running around pointing fingers at others and calling them inferior.
The "multiculturalism has never worked and never will work" brigades, are paranoid and xenophobic due to lack of education or, are outright bigots and racists. These numbskulls don't realise that our "way-of-life" is the way it is because of the multiplicity of cultures that have been settling on this land for over two hundred years, not to mention the Aboriginal peoples that have been here for forty millennia.
Disgraceful pigs like Cory Bernardi and others who pull out the race card for some political objective, are the ones that need to be condemned, not the decent and advanced pursuit of harmonious existence together regardless of race, colour and creed.
No one can help this it is the nature of humans , even ones who stress they are not bigoted or racist, inside there is always something. Its nature.
I beleive thats why multiculturalism would be the greatest thing in the history of living things for the human race , you still have to deal with multi religiousism sorry about that word , its not just different races in fact its beleifs and different ways of looking at things and of being used to what you were brought up with, that creates the problem. As I said nobodys fault it just humans , they will never do it, they just will never do it properly.
We see it forever look at the middle east, what a cauldron of terrible potential for killing and hatred , there are some people in the middle east who still talk about the Crusades like it was yesterday. Those will be like that forever and their children will as will westerners children no matter what they are taught , its human genetics, same animal all over the world , look at the Americans killed 600,0000 thousand of their own in the civil war.
So different in millions of ways that never ever will all be able to live peacefully. We are the only animal that hunts for sport. How in the name of hell are we ever going to change the nature of the human being, you have to have laws because of human nature, if you didn,t it would be chaotic hell on earth. Thats us mate homosapien the most dangerous thing on the planet . Too much brain to be safe around other animals.
And we always will be , so multiculture will be tried out and fail over and over and eventually it will work because we,ll have all become coffee coloured people (in your dreams) that might "MIGHT" happen in 50 or 60 million years, doubt it.
Just take each individual human and deal with that its easy and most humans on a one to one are great folks what ever colour or religion. BUT BEWARE not all are.