China Growing Influence

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Alain, 30th May, 2018.

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  1. geoffw

    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    Canada at least is bilingual.

    Dual citizenship of politicians is about interpretation of our constitution, not about questioning of their values. In the same way that no federal politician is allowed to be employed by the Commonwealth.
     
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    ..due to colonisation so what not really anything meaningful in this statement.

    Yes, it is about values.
     
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    If that were the case, Australia doesn't qualify, as it's settlement was to do with colonisation.

    On the one hand you want to reject any countries with a large range of indigenous languages. On the other hand you want to exclude countries with a range of languages bases on colonisation. It doesn't leave much.

    Then if it's about values, Australia doesn't have multicultural values because they are excluding politicians with dual citizenship. I believe it started with political point scoring which snowballed far more than anybody ever realised.

    Australia is mostly monolingual and monocultural. Far more people in USA or Canada speak a language other than English as their first language, and have a culture which is not basically English. India has a far bigger range of languages, races and religions. Israel has people from all over the world. People may come here from other countries but they must learn to fit in with our culture and speak or language.

    We excluded people with other skin colours for far more many years than we accepted them.
     
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    Off topic geoff
     
  5. geoffw

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    Australia is becoming more monolingual despite any multiculturalism
    Census 2016: Second-language learning in Australia 'needs urgent attention'

    The article notes that Mandarin is the most common language spoken at home, after English - so there is a strong Chinese influence still.

    However, when I went to school, French was the only second language taught. At least now there's a much bigger range of languages available to students.