Tina Faulk offers print media the feel-good and unbacked by facts style of talkback radio journalism. Her target? Multiculturalism.

That was one of the problems with multiculturalism. As a policy, multiculturalism trumpeted the message: "It's all right not to join the mainstream of Australian life." The result, as we know it, was ghettoisation, isolation or alienation, and, even after a generation, reluctance to commit to the Australian community.

I need facts to back up these "results". Where are the ghettos? How is the isolationism manifesting itself? I dont see Greek, Thai or Afghan terrorists in Australia? Where is the alienation? Australia is a capitlistic country, most people focus on building wealth ..... so I ask again where?

This is talkback radio fare. Dont worry about facts, just claim it, and then belittle those that phone in.

Australia, like Britain, but unlike the US, made the multicultural mistake. .... Right from primary school, children learn what it is to be American - albeit hyphenated - Chinese-American, Polish-American, African-American and so on.

This is untrue as well. You cant get more Australian than a Greek-Australian. They have their own uniquely Australian accent and culture. I also live in the US, and if exposure to flags and pledges at a young age are what makes people monocultural, then it is a shallow goal.

I live in the US, my next door neighbour is spanish and doesnt speak much english. I am Australian. The family next door is from Long Island NY, the couple across the road are from Philly, he runs a landscaping business and is bilingual as all his workers are Mexican.

My wife is American, but she flies the Boxing Kangaroo flag from the front of our house, and it fits in fine with all the red and white striped flags. Note to Australian monoculturalists; America is multicultural.

How many young Australian-born Muslims, I wonder, would defend Australia, if the need arose, and how much of that indifference may be blamed on multiculturalism?

Ahhh the goal has been laid bare, it isnt multiculturalism that is the problem, it is Nationalism. The centrists cant see past the goal of the unitary nation-state.

The quickest way to have a nation collapse to a decentralised military tech like terror is by centralising it into a homogenous government, police, culture and society. Nationalism is the worst possible principle for a country to survive in the decentralised age of economic liberalism and terror.

Diversity and local innovation are the only way to combat it. Centralised systems cannot respond quickly enough, nor innovate as fast as a decentralised system. A centralised system is limited by the imigination of its leaders. A decentralised system is empowered by the endless imagination of its participants.

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