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Ladies and Gentlemen, do you think that immigration is affecting our society? If so, is it affecting it in a bad way? I ask. Whoever can think of a good and mature reason right now, that immigration is traumatically affecting our society in a bad way. Please speak now. I’m not here to speak against a specific area of immigration, but I am here to discuss some facts of this topic with you so that you may be able to share some thoughts with me. I do not think against immigration at all for I am an immigrant myself, and if I were to say something against that, I would only become a hypocrite. What I say should be on behalf of the Asians I represent. Australia is a large country. So why not accept a couple of thousand extra people? Does anyone know how crowded countries such as Japan, Korea and even China is? Korea and Japan, they have such a small piece of land, yet such an overpopulated country! That is why they build more buildings each day to try and provide an appropriate habitat for each and every citizen. This means that in this process, you lose many of the beautiful places for citizens to enjoy such as nature and historic places, all because of trying to find a good place to build a new home for another person. That is why the whole immigration process started. They all just wanted a quiet place to live. A not-so-crowded land in which they can dwell. Immigration was ALWAYS a difficult thing. The government finds it hard to cope with so many people from different countries trying to fit into Australia. Just the statistics for immigrants whom settled during 1998-99 are 46,891. About people from over 150 different countries took out Australian citizenship. The major countries of former nationality or citizenship were Britain, China, Vietnam, India, Philippine, Sri-Lanka and many more.
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