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 | | The Western world generally considered Bosnian Muslims to be the true victims of the war; unlike them, Bosnian Serbs and Croats could rely on neighbouring Serbia and Croatia for protection and were often seen as perpetrators as much as victims. |
 | | In the tenets of highly urbanised mainstream Australia, extended families and family networks are perceived as impractical and even incompatible with some important principles of modern living, such as privacy, and the independence of very young as well as very old adults. |
 | | Western capitalist culture, especially its Anglo variety, places great emphasis on, and accords high status to individualism, efficiency, professionalism, competition, paid work, independence and privacy, leaving little room for communitarian, extended family models that value mutual support and interdependence. |
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