Chapter headings


'Destiny Will Out'

Part One - Origins

Chapter 1 — The Bardo of Becoming a Nation

Chapter 2 — The Birth of Sorrow

Chapter 3 — Blessed be Childhood

Chapter4 — The Transgressor

Chapter 5 — The False Dawn

Chapter 6 — The Blue Yonder

Part Two - Shocks

Chapter 7 — Culture Shocks

Chapter 8 — Death of a Dream

Chapter 9 — Reverse Culture Impacts

Part Three - Settlement

Chapter 10 — Integration - Background

Chapter 11 — Integration - The Launching

Chapter 12 — Integration - The Economic Scene

Chapter 13 — Integration - The Ethnic Scene

Chapter 14 — Integration - More of the Ethnic Scene

Chapter 15 — Integration - The Community Scene

 Part Four - Towards the Light

Chapter 16 — Lost on a Straight Path

Chapter 17 — Myths of Multiculturalism

Chapter 18 — Falling Leaves Return to the Root

Chapter 19 — Equality in Unity

 Postscript

 'The Karma of Culture'

 Preface

Introduction:  The Trauma of Transplantation

Chapter  1 :  Be true to thine self

Chapter  2 :  Unity in Diversity?

Chapter  3 :  A Silent Slippage!

Chapter  4 :  Keeping the Bastards honest

Chapter  5 :  Here Comes the Neighbourhood

Chapter  6 :  We are One

' Hidden Footprints of Unity'

 Preface

Introduction    The East transits the West

Chapter  1       Black looks in Oz

Chapter  2       The power of pigmentation

Chapter  3       To have a dream

Chapter  4       Which way to the Cosmos?

Chapter  5        Peering into the Void

Chapter  6       The end of tribalism

                          Part one — Foreigners everywhere

                          Part Two — The Merging

'The Dance of Destiny'

Part 1  The Wheels Fell Off

 The Upheaval — Life under the Japanese

A casual contact

A speedy withdrawal

Avoiding the bombs

Life under the Japanese military

The early days

The latter days

The final days

A retrospect

 Back in time — Life in colonial Malaya

Origins

Boyhood

The way we lived

 Forward in time — A life of transformative change

A new beginning

The descent to doom

Keeping afloat

Quo Vadis

Part 2   Of holes which were not there

               Quo Vadis (or where now?)

              Memories of White Australia

              A failed takeoff

              A trek to the new world

                       The Launching

                       Settling In

              The forks in the Road

        To an enhanced Australia

                      To social alienation

              Ultimate Reality