When it really happens: SHTF...

[22SqnRAE]

OWell a bus load of asian ethnic people turned up in a bus yes a bloody bus and hoovered the shop clean and departed

I'll be controversial and I'll happily accept the flak.

The one thing this situation is teaching us is that "globalisation" is an abject failure. And it's punitive to countries, communities and cultures.

Let's be clear. Humans are prejudiced creatures. We're tribal. Is that good, or bad? Well, that's a little esoteric.

Italy is Italy because of Italians and their culture.

Austria is different to Germany, though they speak the same language, because Austrians are Austrians, not Germans. They have Austrian culture, preferences and desires. And good on them.

Immigration has and will be the norm for people. Australia benefitted from the mass immigration of Europeans post WWII to rebuild our shattered economy and to home the homeless from the conflict which we were rightly part of. There was an early 'fitting in' period for the newcomers. They didn't understand us, and we didn't care to understand them. But bit by bit, they educated us, as we did them. They bought such rich and enviable culture to boost the pretty staid and British Australian culture of the late 40's and 50's. Nowadays, the Croats, the Greeks, Italians, Brits, Germans, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Estonians, Maltese (and the list goes on and on) are all "real Aussies." Why? Because they chose to integrate. They assimilated our expectations, rebelled at times, and conceded that maybe we could work and live together quite easily, when we decided to be "us."

Fast forward to the past 10-15 years and the unchecked immigration we have taken from certain cultures that are patently at odds with our beliefs, behaviours and traditions and we have multi-culturalism. This is a caustic situation where we have pockets of immigrants choosing to establish and run their culture with primacy over the national and regional culture. This is the divisiveness of 'multi-culturalism.' Its a foolish notion that effectively says that The Vatican City must accept a block of Pagans and Devil Worshippers in the bounds of the City, because that's the multi-cultural way. Another silly analogy would be to have a square kilometer of Extreme Shia Muslims ensconced in the middle of Jerusalem. It doesn't quite work, does it?

So what we have in Oz nowadays, is many pockets of Chinese mainlanders, all ex-CCP controlled, or card-carrying members of the Party, in amongst our liberal-democratic society which is still based on a moderate form of capitalism. We're seeing oil-on-water here...

Cinder's comments are real. They're not prejudicial, they're factual. They are, in fact, evidence of the problem of this complete debacle that fuels this 'panic buying.'

What they demonstrate is that humans, as tribal beings, do have a preferred 'behaviour of the tribe.' Sadly, we have let other tribes take precedence over our one big tribe. And we're paying the price for it.

Let's hope that after this stupidity dies down, we all have a good look at how we handled the situation and take some very positive steps to prevent such a self-centred outbreak happening again in the next century, at least. It doesn't take vigilante mobs, or violence. It takes self-discipline and respect. Respect for your neighbour as much as yourself.

Go in peace, all. Be safe and be good to one another.