Don't go back to where you came from

Australia's Multicultural Genius
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-74223-336-9
Verlag: NewSouth

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

Many earnest books were published about multiculturalism in the 1980s and 1990s, mainly feel-good stories that corresponded with the agreed bipartisan multicultural policy that existed. This perception, if not reality, shifted markedly in 2001, indirectly because of Tampa and 9/11, but also because the Howard government was ambivalent, if not downright hostile, to the policy. <br> <br>In <em>Don’t Go Back to Where You Came From: Australia’s Multicultural Genius</em>, Tim Southphommasane stakes a claim for the overwhelming success of multiculturalism in Australia, particularly when compared to European countries. <br > <br>As he puts it: ‘The key is that multiculturalism has always been a citizenship policy and has always been about integration. But it has only rarely been understood this way: for supporters, it has been just about lifestyle and pho/laksa/kebabs/souvlaki; for its critics, it has been about cultural relativism, ethnic ghettos, reverse racism and the introduction of Sharia law’.

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<p>Tim Soutphommasane is a political philosopher at Monash University’s National Centre for Australian Studies and the Per Capita think tank. He is also a columnist with <em>The Weekend Australian</em>. He worked for Bob Carr when he was NSW Premier and for Kevin Rudd when he was federal opposition leader. A former leader writer at the <em>Financial Times</em> and <em>The Guardian</em>, he is a regular contributor to <em>The Monthly</em> and <em>The Australian Literary Review</em> as well as ABC News 24. Tim holds a doctorate (and masters) in political philosophy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He is the author (with Nick Dyrenfurth) of <em>All That’s Left: What Labor Should Stand For </em> (NewSouth, 2010) and <em>Reclaiming Patriotism: Nation-Building for Australian Progressives</em> (Cambridge University Press, 2009). </p>