The ME migrants largely came out in the sixties and seventies and filled blue-collar jobs. It is their children who make up the biggest percentage of Australian-born Muslims, but the job market has shifted since then. We are becoming a post-industrial society. So, as Robin Murray has noted “key forms of autonomy (and social inclusion?) are no longer based on the nation state, but are instead established at the level of
consumer, communities and production systems.” (in O’Brien et.al. _Poverty and Social Exclusion: North and South, IDS Working Paper 55, 1997)

Possibly because Muslim migrants come from so many different ethnic, language and national backgrounds, it is religion they share in common, and which becomes their marker of difference. Whereas for Asians migrating to Australia, their markers of difference are more ethnic and language based rather than religion. Perhaps Asians are more ready to perceive racial discrimination because it is their major marker of difference.

That was my fault. Not deliberate I assure you.

Here’s what the SMH report says…

The Mapping Social Cohesion survey found that 51.3 per cent of life-long Australians who lived in high immigrant areas believed the number of immigrants is too high…

…It doesn’t really surprise us that there are people in areas of high immigrant concentration who are older established Australians … (and have) a level of discomfort or even opposition to the direction of government policy,” said the report’s director, Professor Andrew Markus from Monash University.

But this contradicts the conventional wisdom at the ABC, that all prejudice against the Calathumpian community is born out of ignorance, and so their propaganda unit simply leaves the above part out and inserts this instead…

Areas where [people] haven’t had a lot of contact with people from other cultures, immigrant groups, and so on, there has been less acceptance,” he said.

I think you’ll find the polar opposite to be true. Barrack Obama received his highest margin, not in cosmopolitan New York or half black South Carolina, but in mostly white Iowa.

Here’s an idea for some research: go out to Western New South Wales and ask the locals about their feelings towards Native Americans, and then ask them how they feel about aboriginals. Then go to an equivalent community in North America and repeat.

‘Tolerance’ is cheap when you have no contact with a group. That’s why North Shore doctors’ wives are brimming over with it. In the days of Apartheid, I used to know this bloke who’d bang on about how racist the Afrikaners were between telling ‘Abo’ jokes.

One included a classic example of mistakenly associating economic outcomes with cultural/ethnic/religious traits – that of assuming Ireland was floundering because of the lack of a “Protestant work ethic”.

As another counter-example to the ‘Asians are entreprenerial thesis’ Spiros could just have as easily pointed to the difference in performance between the Malays and Chinese but of course there is no generic ‘Asian’ culture within Asia some ‘Asians’ consider other ‘Asians’ to be more entrepreneurial and therefore some Asians have the same stereotype about other Asians than Westerners have about Asians – but it is partly based on fact and essentially refers to the overseas Chinese diaspora. But to complicate matters this ‘entrepreneurial’ ethic specifically refers to a very narrow self-selected group of essentially southern Chinese diaspora.

The dialect group of one side of my extended family for instance – the Hakka – has historically tended to direct ambitions into reaching the professional classes, politics and civil service instead (thus not surprisingly Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, Lee Teng Hui – who at one time were all simultaneously heads of Singapore, Taiwan and China were all Hakka) rather than business and is arguably not as entrepreneurial as the ubiquitous Cantonese restaurant owner, for instance.

I disagree. Arabs were very entrepreneurial in the slave trade.

As for the Chinese, well of course. But that Confucionist culture was present when China was going terribly, economy-wise.

Then there’s the Indians. Bone idle on some accounts, but the business class in Fiji is entirely Indian, much to the annoyance of the native Fijians. Big successes in Silicon Valley, big failures elsewhere. Same culture, vastly different outcomes.

Unless you can relate your “warning” to the data and analysis here, it is just a Luvvie red-herring.