Racism, Multiculturalism and the Immigration Debate
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The past decade has seen the development of a major consensus within Australian society which has encompassed the reiteration that Australia is a tolerant and multicultural society. Moreover, it has been argued that the vestiges of racism that exist do so amongst only a small minority of the older Anglo-Australians, and that attitudes such as theirs are increasingly reprehensible in the eyes of the majority of Australians (Dugan and Szwarc, 1984). However, a number of factors have combined to raise serious questions about the legitimacy of this perception and to throw into relief its social role that is, it has been increasingly revealed as ideology. The most important of these factors has been what has become known as "The Great Immigration Debate", triggered by the statements in March 1984 by Geoffrey Blainey, Professor of History at Melbourne University, as to the dangers of any overly rapid "Asianization" of Australia (Blainey, 1984; Singer, 1984; Milne and Shergold, 1984; Markus and Rickleff, 1985; Migration Action VII, 2, 1984; Arena No. 67, 1985.).
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تاریخ انتشار 1998