Saturday, September 23, 2006

New migrants struggle to forgo traditional ways / The Australian, 23 Sep 2006

http://digbig.com/4nayj
Simon Kearney
"TRADITIONAL prejudices and customs among new migrant communities are causing racist turf wars and allowing domestic violence to go unchecked. Community workers and police in western Sydney have detailed how migrant communities want to adopt Australian values but are struggling to give up traditional practices that are illegal in Australia. Racism towards black African migrants from Sudan boiled over into a turf war in the western Sydney suburb of Granville last year when Sudanese and Lebanese men clashed over part of the suburb each was trying to claim as their own."