The wonders of our presentation...

I have to say that our presentation went off a lot better than I had envisaged. Points were well made, questions were forth coming, and I think it held together as a presentation (as opposed to four separate sections) really quite well.

One of the points made by the audience during the question and answer at the end did stick in the mind however. It was observed that we were quite negative about multiculturalism, that we skimmed over the better aspects. On reflection of our presentation, although I think quite positive in its analysis of multiculturalism's future, we did seem to work the entire presentation from the stand-point that it was generally thought that multiculturalism was causing problems (or at least, vocal areas of society see it as causing problems), rather than focus on areas where it is currently seen to be doing good. So, in light of that particular comment, I’d like to state - balls to what 'society' thinks. I kinda like multiculturalism, even as it is. It can improve, certainly. But it's not failing. As was said today, the difference in views between our grandparent’s generation and ours are really down to the emergence of multicultural thinking, and that can't be a bad start.