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The author writes of her experience of being Mexican in Australia. She writes: 'In Australia to be an ethnic
minority is to be the other, the alien. Not all migrants are 'ethnic': the term is applied to those who are different
compared to the cultural features of
mainstream Australia, of Anglo-
Australia.'