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...Australia has changed. While the reflexive xenophobia of conservative politician Pauline Hanson, who warned in 1996 that Australia was "in danger of being swamped by Asians," has retreated from politics, Asia's presence and influence in Australia still provoke controversy. Some Asian, Middle Eastern and African Australians complain that they are somehow considered less truly Australian than those who came from, say, Italy, Greece or Croatia. An influx of foreign students into Australian universities - many of them Asian - has heightened tensions. In an ugly series of incidents in Victoria in recent months, Indian students have been attacked in so-called...
...biggest skinflints, the worst tippers and the least able or inclined to speak foreign languages. They also finished next to last in terms of their politeness and behavior. (The worst offenders in both those categories were - wait for it - Americans, who were also designated most likely to complain...
...Uighurs across Xinjiang complain about job discrimination and the influx of Han migrants. But in Urumqi, where they are outnumbered 5-to-1 by Han Chinese, their most immediate concern is safety. Thousands of paramilitary troops are preserving an unsteady peace, but for some that is not enough. "I'm afraid of people fighting each other," says a 22-year-old Uighur college student. He longs to go to another city in Xinjiang where the Uighur population is larger. "I want to go to Kashgar, Khotan or Aksu where it is safe. Right now a lot of people are leaving...
...other end of the street, the poor complain that their lot hasn't improved in the past two decades. "You can work all your life, but you can never make it in this country. I want people to have opportunities here like they do in the United States," says waiter Antonio Bustamente, 50. "The problem is the rich," says Maya Martinez, pushing through the crowd to make her voice heard. "We have a few wealthy families who own everything and don't even pay taxes. They attacked Zelaya because he stood up to them." (See pictures of the Honduras coup...
...over Israel's alleged abuses of Palestinian child prisoners. The IDF denies any ill treatment of children detainees and insists that all claims are thoroughly investigated and that the number of complaints has dropped. But Khalid Quzman, a defense lawyer at the Israeli military courts, says, "We don't complain anymore because it's a waste of time." More than 600 complaints of torture and ill treatment were filed between 2001 and 2008, he says, "and not a single criminal investigation was ever carried...