Both grandmothers were Aboriginal. He had inherited a scimitar inscribed in Pushtu from his Pathan grandfather, and he planned to go back to the Khyber Pass where his relatives came from. And he was a dinky-di Australian, broad accent and all. Paradoxically, as in the US, the process of rediscovering cultural roots is flourishing here, says Price. The difference is that this cultural heritage is now being set in an Australian context.
Cultural identity is nebulous, eternally in flux.
What this gradual integration means to Australian identity is uncertain. Meanwhile, Australia will continue to be a prism for minority Australians, refracting a spectrum of identities and cultures. As in the case of the movie Wog Boy , or the Chinese looking back to the gold rush, they are now seeing their heritage in terms of Australia.