Racial tension.

We often criticise Muslims for failing to integrate and adopt the Australian way of life, but it seems that our European brethren are no better.
Yesterday there were disgraceful scenes at the Australian Open tennis at the Rod Laver Tennis Centre in Melbourne. Players were competing from all over the world - and that included players from Croatia and Serbia, republics from the former Yugoslavia who fought a bitter and vicious war a little over a decade ago.
Supporters of both republics turned up wearing their national colours and it quickly became obvious that they had no interest in the tennis. They taunted each other and inevitably this turned into warfare with bottles and other objects thrown, flag poles uprooted and used as weapons until the police forced them apart - and evicted over a hundred and fifty from the centre.
Where do we go from there? Probably into more trouble as a match between a top Croation player and a top Serb seems inevitable. There will be a massive police presence so a brawl is unlikely, but it is likely that rival supporters in the stands will heckle and call insults - in which case they will be ejected.
It is a cause to wonder why - if they love their former republics so much - they are here in Australia. Surely their families left their old country because of hatreds that went back centuries and were incapable of being resolved. If so - why resume the fighting in a new country where the slate should have been wiped clean on arrival ?