Where do we live???

Excuse me? Can someone let me know what country this actually is??? Why the hell is there race-related violence on Sydney beaches?

For the benefit of people O/S- in the past few days there have been large gangs roaming the streets in Sydney and attacks on people of middle-eastern descent in Sydney- and then retaliatory attacks apparently by young Lebanese.

After my own recent extremely positive cross-cultural experiences in Japan, what is going on now makes me sick to the stomach. How is that on one hand people can be so tolerant, generous and willing to embrace diversity and on the other, prepared to hurt others based on their place of birth? All I can say is - thankfully, the majority of Australians are appalled and disgusted with this pointless violence and hatred, and that this rowdy mob certainly does not speak for me.