Multikulturalisme di Australia hingga sekarang saya lihat memang berhasil menyerap berbagai arus migran...
Itali, Kroat, Tionghoa, Vietnam dll. Dengan catatan: yang bikin onar di Australia sekarang ini boleh dibilang cuma orang Islam. On 14 Nov 2005, at 18:38, teddysrachman wrote: > November 15, 2005 > > The social ills in France do not prove multiculturalism fails - they > don't have such a thing, writes Gerard Henderson. > > BEWARE a Frenchman bearing advice on social order. On 60 Minutes last > Sunday, Peter Overton interviewed Dominique Moisi about the civil > disorder that began in north-east Paris more than two weeks ago and > which has spread to other cities, including Lyons and Marseilles. He > is a commentator, academic and senior adviser to the French Institute > of International Relations. > > At the end of the interview, Overton asked Professor Moisi whether > recent events in France had provided "a warning for Australia as > well". He replied: "Oh yes. The message for Australia is the message, > I'd say, for any country in the world that has large immigrant > populations that are not fully integrated. Listen to these people, > engage in permanent dialogue with them. Do not allow them to feel > alienated in your society. Don't create monsters by your indifference." > > No doubt Moisi is well meaning. Moreover, in the present climate in > France, he is a voice for moderation against the ideology of > Jean-Marie Le Pen and his supporters in the extreme right National > Front. Yet, to Australians, Moisi's message is confusing. France > practises integration with respect to its ethnic minorities, from > North Africa and Arab nations, in the sense that the French do not > formally recognise their existence. > > Australia is different. Under the governments led by Gough Whitlam, > Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, Australia has preferred > multiculturalism to integration. As John Howard made clear on 60 > Minutes on Sunday, he does "not particularly" like the word > multicultural. Yet his Government has advocated a policy, which the > Prime Minister prefers to call "Australian multiculturalism", which is > not dramatically different from that of its predecessors. > > There has been misunderstanding in Australia about successive French > governments, socialist and conservative. Such commentators as the > journalist Piers Akerman and the broadcaster Alan Jones have > interpreted the unrest in France as providing a warning to Australia > that multiculturalism does not work. The essential point is that > multiculturalism has never been tried in France. On the contrary, > France's problems are a manifestation of the failure of its flawed > attempt at integration over half a century or so. > > Anyone who has residence in France is expected to act like the French. > There is no public recognition that immigrants to France - or their > children or grandchildren - might like to preserve part of their > ethnic culture or native language or that this might benefit France. > There is no French equivalent of SBS and there are few government > sponsored organisations for inter-ethnic dialogue. It's a case of when > in France do as the French do. > > As a result French authorities do not even monitor the results of > population movements in the nation. For example, it is all but > impossible to imagine the publication in France of a book similar to > The Australian People (CUP, 2001), edited by James Jupp and funded by > the federal state and territory governments. As Jupp says in his > introduction, the emphasis of his encyclopedia is on "the ethnic > variety of Australia and the role of immigration in building the > nation which we have today". Ethnic diversity is rarely discussed in > France. > > At a meeting last year at the Palais de l'Elysee, I asked a French > official the accuracy of the prediction that, on present population > projections, France would be 50 per cent Muslim by about 2050. In > response, there was a blank stare - followed by the advice that these > statistics are not collected. In official French parlance, there is no > such ethnic identity as French-Algerian or French-Moroccan. Just > French-French, so to speak. > > Certainly, many of France's social problems are a result of its > dreadful economic performance, mainly due to France's unwillingness to > engage in economic reform as well as its regulated industrial > relations system. This protects the employed and former employees on > pensions at the expense of those without jobs. Unemployment is 10 per > cent while youth unemployment is more than 20 per cent. Unemployment > in the public housing areas, where so many French Muslims from North > Africa live, is 30 per cent plus. > > There is another area where the French and Australian immigrant > experience differs. In his essay in Leonie Kramer's edited collection > The Multicultural Experiment (Macleay Press, 2003), the historian > Professor Geoffrey Blainey refers to the "bold experiment" of > "encouraging large and inward-looking Muslim enclaves in Western > nations". There has been no such experiment, bold or otherwise, in > Australia. If Blainey wants to see a real enclave, he should travel to > the suburbs on the edges of Paris. They are perhaps best depicted as > government sponsored social dysfunction. > > Moisi proffers sound advice when he entreats immigrant nations, like > Australia, to listen to ethnic groups and engage them in permanent > dialogue. It's just that this is what countries such as Australia, > Britain, Canada and the US try to do - to a greater or lesser extent. > Avowedly multicultural nations are not formally indifferent to their > ethnic minorities, of whatever generation. > > The fact is that multiculturalism has worked well in Australia and has > contributed to an accepting society. The tests? Well, inter-marriage > rates between ethnic groups are relatively high. And the level of > ethnic motivated crime is relatively low. France's contemporary social > problems have nothing to do with multiculturalism but, rather, much to > do with its absence. > > Gerard Henderson is the executive director of the Sydney Institute. > > http://smh.com.au/news/opinion/france--no-wisdom-on-migrants/2005/11/14\ > /1131951095194.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 > > > > > > > Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/uTGrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! 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