Ghetto youth a multiculturalist legacy

theaustralian ^ | 12/16/05 | Keith Windschuttle

[Gordongekko909]

We need to look at how people got assimilated in the past and do, like, a lot of that today. I mean, you can't just annihilate something like multiculturalism; you need to replace it with something.

[Cronos]

Until 1975, almost all were Maronites or Christian Lebanese. They prospered here, married into the local community and, within two generations, became largely indistinguishable from the Australian mainstream.

And I'm guessing the Christian lebanese weren't the cause of the riots.....

[Cronos]

Only 6 per cent of Indians married within their ethnic group, as did only 18 per cent of Chinese. In short, most immigrants, whatever their race, married Australians of other nationalities.

All except the mozzies....

[Cronos]

We need to look at how people got assimilated in the past and do, like, a lot of that today. I mean, you can't just annihilate something like multiculturalism; you need to replace it with something.

Multi-C works great if you keep out the Mooselimbs. Check it out -- it works with Chinese (Buddhists, Taoists, Christians,etc), Indians (Hindus, Sikhs, Christians etc), Arabs (non-Muzzie arabs) but not with the mooses, so....

[Gordongekko909]

This is good. Indian and Chinese chicks are hot.

[Gordongekko909]

I don't know; the US Arab population seems to have assimilated fairly well.

[Cronos]

Ah -- the US Arab Population is overwhelmingly (90% est.) Christian. THAT's the true thing. NOTE: I'm repeating, non-Muzzies integrate, the Muzzies do NOT.

[Sixgun Symphony]

Arabs yes, but not all Arabs are muslim. Not all muslims are Arab.

Islam is a faith, not a race.

[Gordongekko909]

Wasn't aware of that little stat. That is... significant.

[Gordongekko909]

Appreciated, but I thought there was at least a correlation.

[Clemenza]

I find that interesting, as Indians in the United States overwhelmingly marry within their own ethnic group.

[Clemenza]

Not true anymore. 60-70% of Arabs in this country are Christian now. Most of the new immigrants from the Middle East who settle in places like Bay Ridge in Brooklyn or Jersey City are Muslims, and you see many women wearing the Chador in those areas.

[Clemenza]

Actually, Persian chicks are hot too. Thankfully, most of those in the U.S. are secularized.

[Triggerhippie]

It is not race that is the problem but culture.

Absolutely! We have a similar problem here in the states.

Actually ours is worse than a mere lack of cultural assimilation, it is a cultural degradation. The majority culture seems all too willing to fall to the occasion, yo.

Fo' shizzle.

[Gordongekko909]

I agree. I know one Persian chick, and damn. She even has short hair. I have a thing for short hair.

Too bad she's a leftie. She just HAD to have short hair, didn't she?

[CarrotAndStick]

I find that interesting, as Indians in the United States overwhelmingly marry within their own ethnic group.

In India, it gets a bit difficult to define an ethnic group.

Remember, each state in India speaks a different tongue, linked together only by Hindi or English.

So it shouldn't surprise anyone that Indian Tamilians(not an ethnic group, but speakers of the Tamil language) marry Indian Tamils. Or the same with the other thirty states.

These days, even this is changing.

[Clemenza]

True in the U.S. Most of the Indians I have known have been from Guajurat and are of the Hindu faith. Intermarriage is not common, at least not in New York or New Jersey.

[CarrotAndStick]

Oops, Tamils = Tamilians.

There is, however, the problem of caste. Hopefully, it will be eradicated. Just like how class barriers in European society broke down with increasing prosperity.

[CarrotAndStick]

It's changing in India too. My neighbour is from Andhra Pradesh, a state in India's south. He fell in love and married a woman from Kashmir, a state in the the far north.

They both met at a medical school, in Karnataka, another state in the south.