Whichever view you take, multicultural and tolerant or disapproving and fearful, the awkward fact is that we have not been breeding fast enough (or young enough) to keep society functioning without outside help, let alone educating ourselves to the levels a post-industrial economy is going to need.
Now, after the collapse of communism, the Christian-conservative government paints as its main enemy the multicultural consumerist liberal democracy for which today's western Europe stands.
NITV News's executive producer, Malarndirri McCarthy, won the journalist of the year award at the Multicultural and Indigenous Media awards last year.
As a great, multicultural world city, London need not defend English monoculture or spurn the diversity and tolerance that are a key to municipal success.
But to prepare its pupils as future citizens of a multicultural Britain, schools also have a duty to avoid becoming cultural silos.
But they all have to remember what the sociologists sometimes call "white heritage elderly" Brits – younger ones too – who are untravelled, perhaps less educated and instinctively wary of this multicultural stuff, not least because they suffer the downside.
Shows tend to involve recent academy graduates of all disciplines and nationalities, as exemplified by the site-specific installations, drawings, performances and paintings from the multicultural and nomadic Palatti collective.
The fear (the theory went) hadn't been uniform across England: Labour success in the big cities tended to indicate that multicultural metropolitan populations hadn't felt more than a shiver, whereas people in market towns and the old industrial settlements had had the whole fright.
Bowen, a member of the right faction of the New South Wales branch of the Labor party, presides over a diverse and multicultural seat in Sydney's west.
To be really meaningful, though, Rajan has to make a difference to the output of the newspaper, which means getting beyond traditional narrow coverage to include a wider spread of stories across multicultural Britain – reflecting life as it really is for Britain's minorities, rather than just the typical shock headlines of terror, knife crimes and sexual grooming.
And partly they lie in the promotion of multicultural policies.
