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STEREOTYPING: Is a beleif that associates a whole group of people with certain traits.#

A Professors Predicament
After many hazards of the sea and the many identities in a refugee camp, my family and I came by plane to Australia. We stayed for a while at the Westbridge migrant centre on the outskirts of Sydney. Westbridge was certainly an improvement on the camps in Malaysia and we were happy to be in Australia.
But that was not the end of our predicament. It was only the beginning of a new stage of our life...At Westbridge, for example, the food was good but the rice was prepared in a way that was not ours. The Australians were kind to us but most of the things they gave us were not suitable. What was good about the centre was that many government services were concentrated there: health, mail, housing, employment, even banking. People from the Department of Immigration came to give us orientation courses. Still there were many culture shocks for everybody.
Like many...