Australia wants to dump multiculturalism

The only bad thing I can think about Australia is that it is too far away to visit for me. My job only lets me take one week off at a time, so in my present circumstance, flying to Australia is impractical.

Australia is a true partner of ours in the War on Terror. And don't forget, they've fought on our side in every war since World War I. Keep in mind in that conflict, as well as World War II, they were in the fight before us.

That appears to be the case in regards to multiculturalism. I'm married to an immigrant, and Mrs. Marathon Pundit agrees with me: If you come to America, you learn English as well as American values.

Of course, if you emigrate to Australia, you should do the same--except you learn Australian values.

In other words, I'm not a big fan of multiculturalism. And neither, at least anymore, is the Australian government.

From The Australian:

The Howard Government is looking to scrap the word "multiculturalism" as part of a major revamp of ethnic policy.

In a move seen as a shift in emphasis away from fostering diversity and towards increasing integration and responsibility among migrants, the government is canvassing alternative words to describe how ethnic communities harmoniously integrate into Australian society.

The de facto minister for multiculturalism, parliamentary secretary Andrew Robb, yesterday confirmed to The Weekend Australian that he had told a meeting of the government-appointed Council of Multicultural Australia that he wanted to scrap the word from a redrafted multiculturalism policy.

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The new approach comes less than 12 months before the next election and follows the Cronulla riots and the comments of Australian mufti Taj Din al-Hilali that women who did not wear veils provoked men to rape them.

Australia "gets it," Europe doesn't, and the United States is somewhere in between.

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