Multiculturalism -- Fact or Fiction
- joatsimeon
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» joatsimeon - Australian Assimilation
Actually, Australia is not becoming "multicultural", public pieties to the contrary.Every survey indicates that the children of the post-1945 immigration are adopting English as their primary home language, and the majority are marrying outside "their" community. Well over half of second-generation Chinese marry whites, for example. Multiculturalism isn't a condition, it's a transitional stage.
That means that the goal of the 1950's -- assimilation -- is being achieved. And very rapidly; in the US, it has traditionally taken much longer.
Australia is not becoming multicultural; it's becoming more unified. Assimiliation is, of course, a two-way process.
-- posted by joatsimeon
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