| Kasz216 said: Look into how Dunbar's number works, and why a log doesn't really work with it. Dunbar's number is really more like going over a credit limit. And no... the US and Australia aren't similar in nearly anything you wrote there.
90% of Austrlia's Population is from Europeon descent, not sure how familiar you are with your countries history, but up until about 1970 there was an unpleasent little group called the "White Australia" party that more or less kept out non europeons. Australia's big population boom coming after WW2 when Europeons left Europe because well... Europe sucked after WW2 for a while. For the US Non hispanic white people are about 62% of the US population. That's not even getting into the fact that the two major minority groups of either country (If you can call the minority groups in austrlia "major" ) are at the low end on the other side of the pond. The US and Austrla are about as far apart as can be multiculturism wise, due to the fact that their former racist policies were largely different due to the need in the US for cheap agricultural work. There are very few countries that can match the US in multiculutralism, and the few that can don't have remotely the same kind of race dynamic due to their multiculturalism happening recently.
Only country I can really think of is I think Luxembourg. |
I'm sorry, but you still haven't explained how being 300 million over dunbar's number is different from being 5 million over dunbar's number. And given that it's about individual social organisation, I can't really see how it would be any different. It's like the difference between someone making $1 billion in their lifetime and $10 billion in their lifetime - yes, there's a magnitude of difference in the numbers, but unless you find yourself struggling on $10 million a year, it's not really going to make much of an actual difference in terms of quality of life.
You seem to confuse multiculturalism with "race". I'm sorry, but descent, ancestry, and skin colour is irrelevant to culture. I also find it hilarious that you distinguish "hispanic" for America, but not Australia. You know what "hispanic" really means, in terms of people? "Of spanish descent". Remind me, which continent is Spain found in? So if you're going to use descent and skin colour as your argument, then I guess hispanics are included with the rest of the "whites". You also seem to be under the misguided belief that being of European descent means having white skin.
Meanwhile, the *actual* definition of "multiculturalism" has to do with immigration and the way in which assimilation is handled. And in that regard, America and Australia have strong similarities. The biggest difference, in the end, is that in Australia, skin colour isn't considered relevant. People might judge others for cultures, or for country of origin, but not skin colour (not counting the racists - but I'm not talking about racists).
The fact that Americans got so excited about the "first black president" is another demonstration of that. You all celebrated as though it proves that America isn't racist... but if you weren't racist, it wouldn't matter that he was "black".
