Multicultural Madness

According to Mr. Neville Roach, Chairman of the National Multicultural Advisory Council, the Council’s primary task is to recommend a “framework aimed at ensuring that cultural diversity is a unifying force”. This seems to be a bit like having a committee to ensure that pigs fly backwards and it ignores the reality that multiculturalism is everywhere a divisive force.

Many countries today are racked by cultural and racial strife; New Guinea, Israel, the United States, Britain, Indonesia, India, New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia, Fiji and most African countries, where boundaries were drawn by European colonists without regard to tribal and cultural associations. Indeed, it is impossible to point to a peaceful and harmonious multicultural society anywhere in the world and there are obviously limits to the extent to which racial and cultural diversity can be sustained.

Which begs the question; why is multiculturalism being so strenuously promoted by powerful elites around the world?

The philosophy of multiculturalism is now rigidly applied and enforced at all levels of Australian society; indeed, it is a new state religion. Critics of it are regarded as pariahs, rabble-rousers and racist scum. Take the case of Professor Geoffrey Blainey, who was subjected to Nazi style denunciation and vilification by the politically correct media, politicians and academics in – ironically – 1984. His crime was to say what most Australians thought; that Asian immigration was proceeding at a pace greater than that with which the community was able to cope.

Yet Professor Blainey was demonized by the press, his fellow academics and, of course, by the politicians of all parties, too weak to take the risk of embracing a view that most of their constituents shared, leading to his resignation from Melbourne University in 1988. He has been subjected to almost constant vituperation since, by those who seek to remake Australia’s ethnic mix in a way that will diminish our traditional values based on the Christian notions of individual liberty and personal responsibility.

The mantra, chanted by bureaucrats and politicians, that diversity is a blessing, is distrusted by most Australians. If diversity is so good, why does it have to be thrust down our throats in endless homilies?

If multiculturalism works so well, why was it necessary for the NATO powers to engage in an undeclared war against multicultural Yugoslavia over the issue of its treatment of an ethnic minority?

The continuing bleating from elites about the alleged joys and benefits of cultural diversity doesn’t speak to the hearts of most Australians. There is nothing in this tiresome refrain that makes us feel proud and good to be Australian; indeed, the opposite is true. The language of multiculturalism is not inclusive. It doesn’t recognise the value and contribution of early settlers, predominantly British and German in this part of the world, in laying the foundations of a society so admired that people from around the world clamour to get here. At heart, multiculturalism is a policy that remains indifferent to the needs and feelings of home grown Australians. Thus, it cannot win their allegiance.

Based on the assumption that people want to cling to their ancestral “ethnic” identities and to associate exclusively with their own “ethnic” group, multiculturalism is a regressive, back ward looking and divisive policy. Who cannot remember seeing Iranian Australians chanting, cheering and waving Iranian flags when the Iranian soccer team knocked Australia out of the World Cup?

While this event undoubtedly represented great freedom for Iranians, it cannot have brought much joy to the many Australians who are concerned about the division of Australia into competing tribes. While “divide and rule” might be the goal of elites, we are in danger of going the way of the Balkans, unless we embrace policies around which all Australians can unite.

It is time to bury the philosophy of multiculturalism and to end the government funding that supports the fragmentation of our society into conflicting entities. We should opt, instead, for a philosophy that builds up a sense of Australian identity through our core common values and our sense of shared history, together with a policy of integrating migrants into Australian society. If we fail to cherish our core Australian values, institutions and history, and fail to teach these to our children, then we will no longer be a nation.

We will, instead, be a collection of warring tribes.