Chatswood and Hurstville are already bad enough and not something we want to increase. Multiculturalism is all good and fine, but where you have entire suburbs of predominately one ethnic group (e.g. Hurstville) then it is a problem that needs to be dealt with.
Perhaps it is the fact that Australia is finally waking up to the issues of Asian immigration and are sick of it. I am all for multiculturalism but there has to be assimilation. Creating ethnic ghettos where Australians of non Asian background do not feel comfortable shopping/living/working in is not acceptable at all.
if you were for multiculturalism, I don't understand why you are complaining why some areas have a higher proportion of a certain ethnicity than what is the most dominant ethnicity - the typical Anglo/Irish Australian
if you wanted to be very fair and correct, our government should be a 'utopian' based government who redistributes everybody so that whenever you are in an urban or rural suburb, there will be the 'correct' ratio of Anglo Irish Australians to other ethnicities i.e. 92% white and 7% Asian and 1% other in every suburb, state, town and area.
I doubt our government will bother to do that, honestly you seem like this is an important issue that needs to be 'rectified', and that Asians are of no value to Australia in the whole. You are wrong.
you don't seem to understand the logic behind certain areas being of a high percentage of a certain background - haven't you studied belonging in english, it is logical for people to want to live in areas with someone else of the same or similar background esp if they are new migrants or just of that background so that they are more comfortable to live in society without having a sense of alienation or isolation and they are next to stuff which is what they are accustomed to eg food, shops, cultural events or churches, religions. Hence why some areas are of a typically strong ethnic background in contrast to the racial makeup of a town, like Bathurst.
If you didn't know, Pauline Hanson is a strongly racist woman, she is a xenophobe. She doesn't just hate Asians, she hates those of Muslim background as well. In 2010 she said something of the lines of "I don't want Muslims to buy houses in our country, however with Chinese Australians it's okay, just not Chinese". Which is why she isn't in our parliament anymore and won't be considered again.
Anyway, the idea of the 'yellow peril' is rekindled again by your typical, biased, informative program ACA, portraying a indirectly racist, and needless to say, completely wrong angle of reporting on the shift of businesses in Castle Hill. As if Asians were hungry to take over land or something lol to 'eat' up all your money here. No, while ACA is portraying that idea as the cause, it doesn't mean it is the truth. Just because it's ACA, doesn't mean you take it for granted, given the majority of interviews in the segment being from white old ladies is already a biased survey of opinions from people. If you couldn't sense it from there, then what do you consider of the ethnic group involved? They themselves didn't get a say, nor did those of other cultures as well. It isn't a fair distribution of opinions to draw from Australian society, and if you are all for multiculturalism, then why didn't you bring up the lack of opinions from other backgrounds as well.
The government isn't saying 'hey Chinese people, move here' or 'hey if you're not Chinese don't move here' - they aren't of any opinion on the subject so essentially they are not saying 'hey this buildup of ____ here is bad, we have to redistribute the population'. People choose where they live, this is a democracy, and also one that doesn't uphold the belief of a certain area being too 'overpopulated' by a certain culture. I don't know your point is against people of Asian background, if you had
read mX, or at least the news, you are quite blind if you haven't noticed that around 50% of Australia's tourism sector is fulfilled by Asian tourists, a majority of them being Chinese. Hence why the tourism sector has reenacted some ads in China to encourage even more visits from them, because they do actually benefit our economy, as much as you are willing to deny it. Also a substantial number of immigrants here are also of Chinese ancestry, to become a permanent resident, you actually, literally, have to wait 5+ years to get it to live here. Even if you're a refugee, the waiting list for an asylum grant is at least 1 year, cases of 3 years have been reported. Chinese people, or Asians, or any other non-dominant culture are of the same value as of White Anglo Irish Australians once they get the permanent residency or citizenship, hence they *are* assimilated in Australia. After that happens, they get to live where ever they like and are subject to the same laws and legislation of your typical white Australian.
You do forget that they are also Australian as well, to say that you are sick and tired of this happening - you are creating a paradox in your argument. It's like saying some parts of Australia have too much of a certain type of Australian than some other parts - which doesn't make sense because they are still Australian - and not on a visa, so they're not a tourist.
And for ethnic ghettos where Australians of non Asian background are uncomfortable - you're the one that's uncomfortable, you could always go to suburbs like Bondi or the Northern Beaches if you really wanted to 'belong'. It is acceptable and there are many places in Australia without any 'non Asians' in it if you wanted to be a true, ethnic and cultural conformist, because after all they were created by white settlers, ironically.
