Ethnic Residential Concentration in Cabramatta
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2Ethnic Residential Concentration in Cabramatta.IntroductionAround the globe, there is a common theme of immigrant groups settling in one location within the host community’s nation (Walks and Bourne 2006, p 276). With time these groups have the potential to increase in population while still following the cultural practices of their indigenous community if interactions with other communities within their locality are limited. There have been numerous ways of looking at the experiences of these groups as well as the long-run impact on the larger community. In this paper, I analyze benefits as well as challenges of the concentration of populations from similar origins into the same geographic location. Cultural preservation
3Figure 1: Chinese Buddhist Temple, CabramattaOnce a community settles into a new region with completely different traditions from the ones familiar to the immigrant community may feel a social and spiritual void. In the quest to fulfill this need, they may gradually build structures that they can relate to, making the new environment feel familiar, (Lalich 2008,p53).Despite a majority of the religious people in Sydney not being Buddhists, Cabramatta residents have built a temple to maintain their original faith (Figure 1). For a society to preserve their customs, they must have specific symbols to represent that notion (Lalich 2008 p52). Therefore, the presence of the house of worship does notonly signify their faith but also acts as evidence of generational continuity and commitment to the same practice.
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