Multiculturalism as propaganda

It is not unknown in this country to find old men exercising absolute control over their families and many years after their arrival. Some men would rather kill their daughters than allow an adult woman to go where she chooses or to marry whom she chooses. Democracy requires that the parents exercise a kind of democratic rule of equals.

Ironically, it has been the Australian family which has been the focus of ethnic criticism, as Stephen FitzGerald the chairman of the Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies during Bob Hawke’s government points out in his book, Is Australia an Asian Country:

It was the daily fare of disparagement of Australia as having no culture, as never having had a sense of family or family values, of being overall an entirely worthless place.

In fact, if Australians have one great virtue (and they have many), it is their willingness to defend liberty as the natural right of every people. The blood of thousands of young Australians who died fighting for freedom on foreign shores is ample testimony to it.

And it is the Turkish people and their government who witness this virtue by allowing a memorial to be erected on their shores to honour the Australians who died invading Turkey on April 25, 1915. Although the Turks would eventually be defeated, they would, in their defeat free themselves from the oppression of the Ottoman Caliphate and march the world stage as a secular republic.

That is a multicultural fact worth learning: but it will never be a proper part of an English curriculum.