ABSTRACT
The problematics of multiculturalism within one nation like the United States or the Commonwealth of Australia achieve heightened force, even ferocity, when battle is joined by equally powerful national-ethnic groups across national borders, but removed from everyday contact between each other. As with most Australians they expressed concern with economic development and the social well-being of the community. The Anglo-Australian sense of the superiority of their culture, previously manifest in the policy of assimilation, is disowned by governments, but remains as a significant factor in the community'. To some the debate on multiculturalism may suggest a community still in search of an identity. Here, individuals and communities become more self-conscious about their cultural practice, more interested in conserving it and developing it, deciding what is authentic and what is not and generating attachment to what is considered distinctively national.
