Ashamed to wait: Want to become invisible (Australia)

The paper focuses on a Vietnamo-Australian woman's reaction and feelings on hearing about a spectacular attack in which seve-ral Vietnamese young men killed other Vietnamese. The sensational reporting of the event made her feel ashamed of her Vietnamese identity and body. The paper reflects on the feelings of shame created by the experience of waiting for inclusion in the self-declared multicultural society of Anglo-Celtic Australia. It highlights the feeling of shame that this waiting creates and the passivity or occasional aggressivity it leads to.