Australia is not too dissimilar from America on so many of these points. When people say "let's not hyphenate my (white)-Australian identity" they really mean "Don't hyphenate me and people like me. I'll hyphenate YOUR identity all I like." I don't think the pressure here is as intense - like Canada, we went for the "multicultural" model rather than "melting pot" - but when I'm a first-generation Australian and go unquestioned but fifth generation Chinese Australians (not to mention indigenous Australians) are still outsiders, there's something very wrong with our idea of equality.
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Date: 2010-06-30 03:28 am (UTC)