ABSTRACT
I have been sitting in Britain, where I live, trying to think about multiculturalism. What does it mean now? To me in this place? This 1990s Britain seems very distant from any idea of the multicultural. I look at some other places – other sites of white anxiety – and I see that multiculturalism can be a key term of debate. In the United States the term seems to be clung to as the mantra which will somehow dispel the constant threat of violence. 1 In Australia multiculturalism seems to be regarded as heralding a cutting of ties with old dead Europe in favour of the new (economic) vibrancy of the Southern hemisphere. 2
