Yet in sufficient numbers change us they do. Especially now that cheap air travel and the internet enable migrants, should they choose, to live almost in two countries at once. The Indians who are now our largest immigrant source are readily adapting, starting businesses, mixing in the general community, and frequently inter-marrying, perhaps pre-prepared for life in Australia by their homeland’s ready acceptance of democracy, the rule of law and, to a considerable extent, the English language. Likewise the Chinese, many of whom have come via Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, or Taiwan. Even the Australians of Chinese background who spend considerable time in China, having tasted the largeness of life here, are more likely to be ambassadors for Australian values in China than the other way round.

There is an issue though, here as elsewhere, with some migrants, especially from the Middle East, unaccustomed to religious pluralism, minority rights, and a secular state. For a small minority, the ‘death to the infidel’ mindset is hard to shake, in addition to a tendency to judge issues in terms of religious solidarity, notwithstanding the Australian[xiv]citizenship pledge specifying ‘loyalty to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey’.

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