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44  INTRODUCING SY DNEY

Sydney’s Many Cultures

Sydney has one of the world’s most cosmopolitan
societies, reflected in the extraordinary variety of
restaurants, religions, community centres and cultural
activities to be found throughout the city and its
environs. Over 235 birthplaces outside Australia were
named in the last census. Indeed, the Sydney telephone
directory lists interpreting services for 22 languages,
including Greek, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese,
Turkish, Korean and Arabic, and many of these groups Thai Community
Thai culinary traditions have
have their own newspapers. While immigrants have caused a revolution in Sydney
settled all over the city, there are still pockets of eating houses. The Loy Krathong
Sydney that retain a distinctive ethnic flavour. Festival in Parramatta celebrates
the transplanted Thai culture.

Thailand

Auburn Mosque
This lavish mosque rises above the
thriving Turkish businesses nearby.
Turkey

Cambodian Cambodia
Cabramatta is the hub of
the Cambodian com munity.
Songkran, the three-day
new year celebration is Vietnam Lebanon
held at Bonnyrigg.
Philippines

Filipinos
Over 60 per cent of this rapidly
expand ing migrant group arrive
as the brides of Australian men.

Vietnamese
This sculpture of a cow stands in
Cabramatta’s Freedom Plaza, an
area offering all the sights, smells
and street life of Southeast Asia.
Lakemba
Once known as “potato
hill” for its potato farms in
the early colony, today
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Lakemba is home to a large
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