Society/Culture Why is Multiculturalism a good thing?

[Riseupaustralia]

So in a way I'd argue that Australia's real culture is multiculturalism....

uh oh, now you've done it.

I 100% agree btw

 

[The Coup]

Agreed, which is why Labor/Greens want to replace some of our skilled migration intake with more refugees and humanitarian migrants.

Depends.

Those African Christians that the right always focus on for refugee status are lobbied for hard by their churches in Australia (fairly reasonable behaviour btw) who tell them who to vote for.

The Tamil community are hardly going to vote LNP after they handed a bunch of gunship to the Sinhalese government.

Iranian people are on the whole quite educated and cultured/westernised, they're not going to vote LNP with the anti-muslim politics going on.

People as politics, its been a part of Australian political culture ever since they banned socialists from entry after WW2 while openly recruiting fascists.

 

[swingdog]

I'd agree with all that, except the part about fresh food. That's a whole other discussion but we get crap quality fruit and vegetables, compared to a lot of other places, mainly because it's picked too soon and stored in freezers to suit the supermarkets. I've tasted much better quality in Europe, for example.

 

[Riseupaustralia]

I'd agree with all that, except the part about fresh food. That's a whole other discussion but we get crap quality fruit and vegetables, compared to a lot of other places, mainly because it's picked too soon and stored in freezers to suit the supermarkets. I've tasted much better quality in Europe, for example.

I've had far fresher and better quality F+V and meat in countless SE Asian street markets, and a tiny fraction of the cost.

Food here is waaaaaaayyy over-rated.

 

[Power Raid]

Good start, mate.
Thanks for that, not sure why Power Raid can't respond in plain English, since English is my second language.
I only asked him what I thought was a simple question as so many refer to Australian Culture without telling us outsiders what we should be conforming/assimilating to.

I know you like your references;

http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/people_culture.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Australia

 

[pokerspiv]

Obviously not working considering Labor's primary vote keeps declining.

Labor's vote has been declinging amongst working class people for decades as wages have risen. They called them "Howard's Battlers" in the Howard era.

 

[pokerspiv]

I've had far fresher and better quality F+V and meat in countless SE Asian street markets, and a tiny fraction of the cost.

Food here is waaaaaaayyy over-rated.

Part of the reason for that is we place heavy restrictions on importing those fruit and vegetables from Asia, which is where many of them originate from.

Things like Mango, Papaya, Pineapple, limes etc here in Thailand are cheaper than Apples.

 

[Riseupaustralia]

Part of the reason for that is we place heavy restrictions on importing those fruit and vegetables from Asia, which is where many of them originate from.

Things like Mango, Papaya, Pineapple, limes etc here in Thailand are cheaper than Apples.

Well yeah, that and the fact that it is a little difficult in Australia to pick the chicken you want to eat tonight, watch it get slaughtered and plucked, and then take it home and cook it within an hour.

Plus, the 4 million scooters and small trucks delivering fresh F+V every day.

I miss it very much.

 

[pokerspiv]

Well yeah, that and the fact that it is a little difficult in Australia to pick the chicken you want to eat tonight, watch it get slaughtered and plucked, and then take it home and cook it within an hour.

It is nowadays, didn't use to be though. At home most of us still slaughter our own meat, and/or trade it with other farmers who raise stock that we don't. Usually trading lamb for pork.

Hardly even worth killing your own chooks nowadays that they are so cheap to buy.

 

[Riseupaustralia]

It is nowadays, didn't use to be though. At home most of us still slaughter our own meat, and/or trade it with other farmers who raise stock that we don't. Usually trading lamb for pork.

Hardly even worth killing your own chooks nowadays that they are so cheap to buy.

I'm getting tired of agreeing with you.

 

[swingdog]

I'm getting tired of agreeing with you.

Yeah, get a room you two.

 

[Riseupaustralia]

Yeah, get a room you two.

How dare you!!

 

[pokerspiv]

I'm getting tired of agreeing with you.

Here's something to get you going again then...

Chicken is the only meat to have declined in cost in real terms over the last 100 years. Primarily thanks to libertarian and conservative hero (Founder of the IEA and Thatcher's mentor) Sir Anthony Fisher, who saw the process of intensive chicken farming in its infant stages in the US and imported the idea to the UK.

http://thinktank-watch.blogspot.com/2007/12/sir-anthony-fisher.html

 

[Riseupaustralia]

Here's something to get you going again then...

Chicken is the only meat to have declined in cost in real terms over the last 100 years. Primarily thanks to libertarian and conservative hero (Founder of the IEA and Thatcher's mentor) Sir Anthony Fisher, who saw the process of intensive chicken farming in its infant stages in the US and imported the idea to the UK.

http://thinktank-watch.blogspot.com/2007/12/sir-anthony-fisher.html

You would be surprised at how much of the Libertarian ideal that I agree with.

But why do they hate chickens so much?

 

[swingdog]

Here's something to get you going again then...

Chicken is the only meat to have declined in cost in real terms over the last 100 years. Primarily thanks to libertarian and conservative hero (Founder of the IEA and Thatcher's mentor) Sir Anthony Fisher, who saw the process of intensive chicken farming in its infant stages in the US and imported the idea to the UK.

http://thinktank-watch.blogspot.com/2007/12/sir-anthony-fisher.html

I'm amazed that's not also true of pork, at least in some markets like the US where it's pretty intensive.

 

[clogged]

quality of food in australia is directly related to the inventory management practices of the big two supermarkets.

 

[The Coup]

I buy organic food but im a douchebag and a half

 

[pokerspiv]

You would be surprised at how much of the Libertarian ideal that I agree with.

But why do they hate chickens so much?

It's not that we hate them, they are just really tasty.

 

[Maggie5]

I know you like your references;

http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/people_culture.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Australia

Still not answered why you tagged me.
No need for links, I know that answer, was wondering whether you did.

 

[pokerspiv]

I'm amazed that's not also true of pork, at least in some markets like the US where it's pretty intensive.

I think it's more that pork was already quite intensively farmed, so methods haven't improved that much in comparison to methods of raising chickens.

 

[Maggie5]

I buy organic food but im a douchebag and a half

So am I, not only that use my back yard very efficiently growing my own veggies and a number of fruit.
Certainly can taste the difference, all natural, no pesticides.

 

[clogged]

I think it's more that pork was already quite intensively farmed, so methods haven't improved that much in comparison to methods of raising chickens.

Pigs have always been cheap to keep.

There's also more compliance issues with pigs.

 

[Vic Vinegar]

Please post here more often Vicco, I need a good laugh with my morning coffee.

As for the benefits of the vile shit we call "multiculturism", the evidence in favour is plentiful.

The economic benefits



http://www.crc.nsw.gov.au/__data/as...ntages_of_cultural_diversity_in_Australia.pdf

education


https://www.uwosh.edu/stuaff/images/BenefitsOfDiversity.pdf

communities



https://www.planning.org/research/arts/briefingpapers/character.htm

I wait for your well reasoned rebuttal of these points

Two motherhood statements and an article which refers a) to immigration statistics, not multiculturalism and b) a rather disingenous statement considering the number of students who also migrate here.

 

[The Coup]

So am I, not only that use my back yard very efficiently growing my own veggies and a number of fruit.
Certainly can taste the difference, all natural, no pesticides.

Dunno if its any healthier, don't care. Tastes better.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Two motherhood statements and an article which refers a) to immigration statistics, not multiculturalism and b) a rather disingenous statement considering the number of students who also migrate here.

Care to elaborate?