topic Re: Multiculturism in Community Spirit

Multiculturism

sssaau4 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:52:25 GMT

What is it?

Say I come here and i am asian.

I can speak my language at home to my family, I can cook the food i like at home (or anywhere) I can do my rituals to my gods, no one will care.

So what is that multiculturalism all about?

it seems like empth words to me.

i don't understand.

i come from a different culture, english is my 2nd language.

i cook my countries food at home and hubby puts up with it or i cook him something else if it's too much of an aquired taste.

i speak english (foreign) to other people in the shops because no-one would understand a word if i spoke in my native tongue.

so what exactly is multiculturalism?

is it some ideal where i could talk in my native tongue here and expevt other people to understand me?

is it the freedom to cook my "foreign" meals as i please?

can someone please enlighten me what it actually means?

Re: Multiculturism

ufo_investigations — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:55:54 GMT

Multiculturism is a failure in Australia. It hasn't worked and wont ever work.

Re: Multiculturism

purplecarrot-top — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:06:36 GMT

Not sure what it is exactly. However I love all the different foods. Sure beats meat and three over cooked veggies everyday.

Re: Multiculturism

poddster — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:07:16 GMT

It might be more interesting to hear your definition of what you perceive it to be 🙂

Re: Multiculturism

cherry*135 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:14:52 GMT

Cultural and ethnic diversity.

Re: Multiculturism

tezza2844 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:18:20 GMT

I think" Multiculturism" in Australia started with the first fleet

Re: Multiculturism

j*oono — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:31:18 GMT

Multiculturalism spreads and starts with the initial immigrants.

Mother and father may find it hard to completely integrate but they still manage to share a lot with new friends and new traditions and cooking.

Their children will share the best of both worlds and hopefully they will share the old and new with their children in the future and they can share it with their friends too. Happy world it would be if there weren't so many bigots around.

Re: Multiculturism

cherry*135 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:32:20 GMT

Multiculturism in title. Multiculturalism in the opening post (that is correct).

Re: Multiculturism

sssaau4 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:37:09 GMT

@am*3 wrote:
Cultural and ethnic diversity.

what does it asctually mean?

I come from a different culture. your culture is often very alien and weird to me.

as i said i cook my country food at home and i buy things from ebay from home because rhey are better quality.

apart from that i like to go to pubs and eat burgers or schnitzel and unles i open my mouth no-one would guess that i am foreign.

so can you give me an example?

does "multiculturalism" just mean that i am allowed to cook my own food at home or what?

does it mean that i have the right to talk to Australians in my native tongue and expect an elaborate answer? (unlikely, i know, sorry i am just exploring every possibiliy)

Re: Multiculturism

joz*garage — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:38:17 GMT

What is it?

the opposite of argentina

Re: Multiculturism

cherry*135 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:49:33 GMT

People from many different countries (cultures, ethnicities) living in one single country. All being treated equally?

Why would you want to talk to a person in your language unless that person speaks it also?

Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, French.. we have a lot of different cuisines here ( in restaraunt/take away choices).

Re: Multiculturism

sssaau4 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:48:29 GMT

being treated equally and also behave equally?

Re: Multiculturism

cherry*135 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:49:59 GMT

As far as breaking the law, yes.

Re: Multiculturism

cherry*135 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:52:05 GMT

Add Mexican, Italian, Greek, Indian.. to different cuisines.

We have most of those mentioned in my small town.

Re: Multiculturism

joz*garage — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:58:17 GMT

People from many different countries (cultures, ethnicities) living in one single country

i believe not quite

before the europeans arrived on the american continent there were indigenous peoples spread throughout in isolation with there own culture, language and traditions etc

it's the mingling that makes it multicultural

(my neighbour's a pom)

Re: Multiculturism

sssaau4 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:02:11 GMT

I went into a shop and md I couldn't read read any of the labels on the packets because it was all labelled in Arabic. No labelling in English. None.

They had re-packed spices into bags so there were no brand names.

Is that MULTI-cultural? No it's not. That is not the spirit of multiculturalism.

The spirit of multiculturalism would be if they labelled their stuff in English as well so I can join in with their culture.

They exclude me is that multiculturalism?

Re: Multiculturism

ufo_investigations — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:07:56 GMT

@sssaau4 wrote:
I went into a shop and md I couldn't read read any of the labels on the packets because it was all labelled in Arabic. No labelling in English. None.

They had re-packed spices into bags so there were no brand names.

Is that MULTI-cultural? No it's not. That is not the spirit of multiculturalism.

The spirit of multiculturalism would be if they labelled their stuff in English as well so I can join in with their culture.

They exclude me is that multiculturalism?

I

If it's in Arabic they are most likely muslim and the koran does say than non-muslims are infidels so there's your answer.

Re: Multiculturism

cherry*135 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:15:17 GMT

@joz*garage wrote:
People from many different countries (cultures, ethnicities) living in one single country

i believe not quite

before the europeans arrived on the american continent there were indigenous peoples spread throughout in isolation with there own culture, language and traditions etc

it's the mingling that makes it multicultural

(my neighbour's a pom)

it's the mingling that makes it multicultural

mingling of different cultures ( people from different countries) - in Australia - few examples - Macedonian, Italian, Greek, Indian,Vietnamese, Chinese..

Re: Multiculturism

j*oono — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:18:00 GMT

That's where the multi part comes in sssssssausages. This is where you need to learn what the labels mean. Then you will be doing your part too.

We don't label our products in Arabic or Chinese or German.

Re: Multiculturism

sssaau4 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:18:15 GMT

@ufo_investigations wrote:
@sssaau4 wrote:
I went into a shop and md I couldn't read read any of the labels on the packets because it was all labelled in Arabic. No labelling in English. None.

They had re-packed spices into bags so there were no brand names.

Is that MULTI-cultural? No it's not. That is not the spirit of multiculturalism.

The spirit of multiculturalism would be if they labelled their stuff in English as well so I can join in with their culture.

They exclude me is that multiculturalism?

I
If it's in Arabic they are most likely muslim and the koran does say than non-muslims are infidels so there's your answer.

yes it was in arabic.

i went there because they had made an advert in one of the local TV channels so i thought i go there and check it out. i LOVE to try out new interesting foreign food but when we got there it was rather disappointing. we felt unwelcome and i wondered why they would bother paying for that advert on a local tv channel if they didn't really want "foreigners" (=non arabic people) to buy stuff?

i just bought ras el hanout from the internet but i would have bought it from said shop if i had been able to read their labels....

i am somewhat addicted to trying out new interesting recipes from other countries but it's not nice when you try and go to a foreign shop and they can't be bothered to put an english label on. they have to deal with the tax office so there must be SOMEONE who speaks English and COULD label things in English as well but it seemed to me that we were just not welcome there.