As dutifully reported by the ABC this morning.
“Cultural Diversity Survey: Victorians Support Ethnic Diversity, but 40 Percent Believe Some Groups “Do Not Fit In”.
I would like to know the exact wording of the questions that people were asked.  Because ‘ethnic’ and ‘cultural’ are distinct.  A person may, for example, be Indian by ethnicity or ‘race’ – speaking a South Asian language and having certain physical characteristics – but practice any one of a variety of wildly-different belief systems – Sikhism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, or even be an atheist or a communist. And those belief systems will make a significant difference in the way that person behaves toward others. A ‘Persian’ speaking Farsi may be Christian, Shiite Muslim, Zoroastrian or atheist; and it would be a fool who pretended it did not matter a great deal which.  – CM
‘Victorians support the idea of cultural diversity but 40 percent of people believe there is at least one ethnic group that does not fit into Australian society, a survey has found.
There is one ‘group’  I can think of that does not fit and has no intention of fitting…but that group is not an ‘ethnic group’, it is defined solely by adherence to a specific ideology.  Those who join it – by choosing to accept and adhere to that ideology – tend to become just as dangerous and disruptive, just as much “misfits”,  as those who were born to its practitioners and steeped in its tenets from birth. – CM
