Australia-successful multiculturalism.

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This video was a reaction to all the "Australia is a racist society" video's appearing on you tube. Unfortunatly post production, it seems to be chopped at the end :(.




Its my mum's story, a single parent migrant in the 60's where divorcee's were a lower social class as were women. She unfortunatly was both, could not speak English and had a 3 year old son. For years she was home sick, lonely and hard working and dreamed of both owning a home (the great Australian dream) and returning back one day. Today she has retired, paid her house off, had the oppurtinity to go back 10 years ago when she retired and the trip made her more patriotic toward Australia than she had ever been having probably realised what sort of life would have laid ahead for her if she had not chosen to migrate. I grew up in the racist 70's as Australia was laying waste to its long held "White Australia policy" kicking and screaming for many on the right. It took a generation for that first round of migrants which included my mother to assimulate. But once we did, we transformed the landscape and changed what it ment to be Australian. After pulling out of Vietnam, I watched as another round of refugees entered Australia and tried to assimulate in much the same way as my mums generation before them. They were subject to the same racism as my generation growing up and 10 years later the assimulation was all but complete as their kids grew, left school entered the work force and became a part of society and again changed what it meant to be Australian. Today, as we demolish their country with half the regard to human life that we would give our own citizens, I see another round of refugees being welcomed in from Iraq, Afganastan, Pakistan and India. The common demoninator with these refugees is Islam which adds another demsion to the racism, but just like the immigrants before them, they are treated with hostility for their differences by the community untill we see the similarities, which takes a generation of living here. For the pain and torment this has bought the country, the richness and evolution of the society has been worth it because we have in the end focused on the similarites, not the diffrences and learnt to tag onto our culture the best of those we have invited. For every racist attack, there are hundreds of sucess stories. For every imigrant criminal, there are thousands of successfull people that have added to richness to our society from the gifted Harry Seidler to the equally gifted Dr Victor Chang to my mum, just an example of the thousands like her that proudly call Australia home by choice rather than by birth, whose success stories are rarely told, have all been part of the multiculural success story that is Australia. And no doubt there will be countless more from the wave of refugees we are accepting in at the moment as our society continues to evolve and mature from the benefits of multiculturalism.

Thanks for watching :)

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• migrant
• australia
• multiculturalism
• racism
• cronulla riots

[beernutsle]

Great video! I'll put it on my project on multiculturalism at school, as you have a great perspective on it! Thank!

Also, if you don't approve of this, please reply.

[Botie2]

@beernutsle Thats very flatering, thank you. I hope you get good marks.

[Botie2]

Thank you :).

[cycloneyasi5]

well said..thanks for sharing

[Gabbo2010]

I am a migrant myself, and I think Oz is a wonderful nation, and yes I find Australia to be tolerant. In fact much more than where I came from, Russia. I belong to a heavily persecuted group in Russia.

[dwayne2005]

Wonderful, thanks! This is the best video I've seen on the matter!!