In this documentary, former conservative Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (1975-1982), says: “Multiculturalism was meant to give expression to the view and government policy that you could be a good Australian and still love your country of origin. You didn’t have to behave like somebody who was white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant to be a good Australian. That was the view before 1939 but it was not the appropriate view in the 1970s.”
I would want any immigrant to Israel to be Jewish and to behave Jewish and to put Jewish identity before any other identity. So I understand and sympathize with WASPs who want the same thing for Australia, America, England, Canada, New Zealand, etc. Why would they want people who don’t take on a WASP identity? Why would they want a more divided country with less social capital?
Not surprisingly, Fraser took the side of black Africans against the one outpost of civilization on the dark continent — white South Africa.
