From within the beast(s) - I'd say...
"It also highlights some of the very serious problems with the Australian approach to immigration, one which follows a pattern where immigrants from all over the world hold on to their prior connections much more strongly than to an "Australian" identity. Dutch and German immigrants still tend to stick together, for example, generations after their counterparts in the US (myself included) have discarded any serious connections with Euroland. So basically Australia as it stands today isn't so much a nation as a collection of loosely allied ethnic groups clustering on the shores of what remains a foreign land. That's a real recipe for disaster."
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YUP!
Many "New Australians" are certainly not integrating to the extent that those of a half century ago did.
"Multiculturalism" is the order of the day, and has been since Gough Whitlam's time.
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"You suggest this is an Australian issue. I don't think so. I think you are seeing the same basic pattern in many places. It's spawned by governments with irresponsible and promiscuous immigration polcies, whether by commission or omission, and the ongoing leftist war against the dread spectre of Assimilation"
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YUP!
Much the same sort of thing is also happening in New Zealand - another nation with a
similar government mandated "multicultural" policy.
In both Australia and New Zealand, the concept of assimilation is held by the left as being "anti-multicultural" and detrimental to the 'ultimate good'.
For what it's worth, many of the urban gangs in the Sydney area are composed exclusively of youth of Lebanese ethnicity. Some of these gangs have been committing anti-social acts, in some cases sexual assaults, which has focused public attention upon them.
In no way does anything above justify assault upon members of the public having a 'day at the beach'.
It does suggest that perhaps policy encouraging assimilation as opposed to multiculturalism could result in less public unrest.