A few days ago, there were reports on the TV news of young men of middle eastern appearance trying to rape young women of anglo-celtic appearance. In broad daylight. Amongst other things, this teaches the community at large that youths of middle eastern appearance should be avoided, if you're a young woman of anglo-celtic appearance. It's like the black problems that someone mentioned: before too long, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Fortunately, and to their credit, Lebanese and Arab community leaders have taken the initiative to try to train out of their young people some of the societal behaviour that has to stay in the Old Country. They nearly said so in the same news reports. It seems that rather than object to the "racial profiling", they've realized they have to fight the bad behaviour that engenders said profiling.

Wade.