{"id":62116,"date":"2015-01-19T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T01:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62116"},"modified":"2019-06-16T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T18:33:40","slug":"the-australian-moment-how-we-were-made-for-these-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62116","title":{"rendered":"The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading this 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Australian-Moment-George-Megalogenis-ebook\/dp\/B007FVVEOS\">book<\/a> and find this brilliant analysis on page two: &#8220;China, Japan and Germany&#8230;are monocultures condemned to premature ageing because they don&#8217;t have the national confidence for mass immigration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank God Australia and America have the national confidence for mass immigration!<\/p>\n<p>From page 88:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Former Australian Labor Prime Minister] Paul Keating says [former Australian Labor PM Gough] Whitlam helped Australia earn the world&#8217;s respect: &#8220;Australia came very near the marginalization that South Africa experienced over racial discrimination, and our salvation from that occurred through and with Gough Whitlam.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great moment from 1981 that exemplifies Australian self-confidence!<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkQRERykq5M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How come Japan never had to become less Japanese to have international respect by importing millions of non-Japanese?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading this 2012 book and find this brilliant analysis on page two: &#8220;China, Japan and Germany&#8230;are monocultures condemned to premature ageing because they don&#8217;t have the national confidence for mass immigration.&#8221; Thank God Australia and America have the national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127466,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62116\/revisions\/127466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}