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.
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> http://smh.com.au/news/opinion/france--no-wisdom-on-migrants/2005/11/14\
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