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Looking for alibrandi is a novel by Melina marchetta that displays ones inner struggle with there own identity. It is set in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and explores various ideas about Australian culture, landscapes and stereotypes.
Australia is culturally diverse and is accepting of others cultures. Many people that live in Australia have cultural backgrounds other than Australian. In looking for alibrandi, Josephine alibrandi is of Australian-Italian descent. In the novel Josephine’s nonna states “a different Australia emerged in the 1950’s. A multicultural one. She also states “one day we couldn’t find him, everybody started looking. Italian, Australian, Spanish…everybody.” This