Should we unite as one?.....Unity A universal quest... HAVE YOUR SAY... (3 Viewers)

[loquasagacious]

That's because they want to be united on their own terms eg everyone assimilated into their culture.

 

[azzie]

you have to start to teach kids in schools about other races/religions, teaching them to accept not just tolerate them, and then you can start getting everyone unified.
buuuut that aint going to happen. at least not with the way that most of the conservative influencials wont let most schools do so (especially private schools where the heads of council decide everything, and whingy, rich parents have more influence on the education we recieve rather than the government)

 

[Paulus]

I don't think unifying culture is necessarily a good thing - its the diversity that makes our world interesting. Though tolerance is definately something to strive for, the violence and conflict and prejudice that exists isn't cool.

 

[spiny norman]

I think that unity, though idealistically sounds like such a great thing, would ultimately come down to a conforming to one ideologue, and I don't think that's a good thing. While racial prejudice and wars that result from this or any other thing are examples of humanity at its very worst, I don't think that unity or conformity is the way to solve this problem, as it would just lead to unrest amongst those who will be forced to change their ideology.

So, in theory it's good, but in practice not so. Much like capitalism, really.

 

[Paulus]

Hey, don't knock capitalism. I love money. I love America.

 

[spiny norman]

That's because you're a yuppy.

 

[Not-That-Bright]

wtf? the yuppies of inner sydney are more likely to be green voters... people with a fair bit of money that now have the environment and poor people as their #1 priority.

 

[loquasagacious]

This seems to offer some hope of mixing and multi-culturalism:

Sydney is not divided by race and it does not have entrenched, ethnic ghettoes. Rather, a study has found, the city is a remarkable example of an urban racial melting pot when compared with other parts of the world.

While new migrants, particularly refugees, converged in areas with cheaper housing, the study found their children and grandchildren often moved on to other suburbs, reducing the chance of racial enclaves becoming entrenched.

The paper, by Macquarie University geographer Michael Poulsen and University of Bristol academics Ron Johnston and James Forrest, counters arguments that Sydney is becoming divided by race.

A study by the Centre for Population and Urban Research's Bob Birrell and Ernest Healy last year identified two, separate Sydneys. One was typified by low-income migrants in the west and south-west, while the other covered rich inner suburbs and "aspirational areas" on the city fringe. It said Australian-born residents were moving from west and south-west Sydney faster than migrants, who were continuing to settle "disproportionately" in these areas. But Dr Poulsen's paper, published in the latest issue of Australian Geographical Studies, argues that having high numbers of migrants in poor suburbs is nothing new, and does not lead to ethnic groups being trapped in American-style ghettoes. "There are places like Cabramatta that have a very high proportion of one ethnic group, but ... the level of concentration of ethnic groups is nothing like what you find in the US," he said.
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"Given the mix of people coming in, and given the way housing is brought, we won't end up with those ghettoes."

That is good, he says, because "when you get a concentration of population, incomes go down and a huge amount of money has to go in to support those areas".

Sydney's racial mix has drastically changed over the last half-century, with those claiming Anglo-Celtic ancestry falling from 96 per cent in the 1947 census to 64 per cent in the latest census, in 2001.

While Cabramatta has a high proportion of Vietnamese immigrants, other suburbs famous for their ethnic identities, such as Leichhardt, or Little Italy, have comparatively low concentrations of ethnic groups.

That is partly because migrants, their children and grandchildren, have tended not to stay in areas alongside others from their homelands, and partly because immigrants now come from a far wider range of countries.

"For the great majority, less than 20 per cent live in areas where their co-ethnics form even 20 per cent of the population," the paper said. "There is little, if any, evidence here of a city divided between ethnic and [Anglo-Celtic] fragments."

It says the only difference between the past three decades of immigration and the previous White Australia policy, is that recent migrants are more visible.

"The primary feature of Sydney's ethnic population to emerge from this study is one of residential mixing, not of segregation," it says.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National...in-Sydney-study/2004/12/29/1103996615042.html

 

[physician]

This seems to offer some hope of mixing and multi-culturalism:



http://www.smh.com.au/news/National...in-Sydney-study/2004/12/29/1103996615042.html

Ok so does it seem possible that the rest of the world can become like australia?

and by the way.. Australia.. maybe comprised of many ethnic..cultural..religious backgrounds...its multicultural.. but are our hearts diverse..in the sence that we love for others what we love for ourselves...

Australia.. and most of the wrold has shown that they do care in how they are all supporting the tsunami devastation...

did u here the story about the lady.. not sure what country she was from but this was her story...

"i was with an argentinian girl.. and we were swimming together and the first wave came.... she told me to grab hold of her hand... but i knew that it was diffiucult and u had to be strong on ur own.. u couldn't hold on to someone or else u would die.... and so i didnt hold her hand and when the wave hit she went down and neva came back up.... but if i had held her hand she may have not been dead .. she may still be alive...."

it's such a sad story.. and the fact that the woman feels sorrow in her heart.. that is unity in itself.. although she had only just met the girl... she for some reason felt responsible for her death... although that's not true because it was written that at that moment the girl was going to die.., and u cannot change when or where somone will die... but the fact that peoples hearts are joined in such a manner it just emphasizes on the power of unity...

However the question still remains unanswered to the full.... i think that the reason we may not be uniting is because the solution is infact the destructive weapon itself...

Our desire wants unity our hearts also want it, along with peace.. but at the same time.. it is our desire that leads us to violance.. terror and hatred... theres something in our hearts that just has no room for it ...

WHAT DO U THINK?