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Birds of a Feather Fight Together

Similarity, not difference, breeds conflict. When we came to Australia in the 1980s my parents remarked upon how cheap certain cuts of meat were at the butchers'. 'White' Aussies didn't eat the fatty belly pork prized by south-east Asians, so we gorged on it at bargain prices. 🐷 They also didn't eat squid, to the delight of Greek and Italian immigrants who scooped up prime calamari at the cost of bait. 🦑