why did the west commit to multiculturalism?

[Centurion1]

There is no country in north and west Europe with a 90% European population, with, I think, the exception of Ireland and Finland. There's none in the America's either, save perhaps for Uruguay.

Would you say then that Australia with a 90% European population is relatively homogeneous as a society? Even if one were to distinguish between Eastern and Western Europe the number would be very high.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I'm starting to think the word you intended to use is homogeneous, i.e of same descent?

[Centurion1]

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Have I been saying Heterogeneous the entire thread?

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[Louis VI the Fat]

Would you say then that Australia with a 90% European population is relatively heterogeneous (/ homogeneous) as a society?

In America, on a census you fill in 'white', or 'Asian', or some such broad category. In Europe, one must identifies 'European' with greater detail. There is no such thing as 'European' in Europe. I can tell a Spaniard from an Italian from a mile away. A German from a Briton. Danes of a conservative nature will speak of Yugoslavs as 'Blacks'.

So there is more to it than 90% European. Denmark is 80 percent European, but this eighty percent is homogenous. Australia is 90 percent European, but much more heterogenous. Australia has large Greek, Lebanese communities. Lotsa other wogs. It is a big, federal country, young, colonial, with an indigenous population and a recent shift towards immigration from its regio. Percentages don;t tell the whole story.

Still, I think Australians underestimate the diversity of modern European societies. Or North America. This is not the 1950s anymore. Britons nowadays move to Australia because it feels so European, because they feel at home more in the outback than in Leeds.

[Papewaio]

Still, I think Australians underestimate the diversity of modern European societies. Or North America. This is not the 1950s anymore. Britons nowadays move to Australia because it feels so European, because they feel at home more in the outback than in Leeds.

About 600k Aussies travel to mainland Europe every year (3% of the population)... so I think they might have a small clue to the cultural diversity. Whilst about 10% of the Australian population lives out of a city and probably way less then 3% in the Outback. I'd actually say we understand less about our own Outback.

And yes in our census we define our ethnic origins a bit more accurately then the approximate continent.