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Kon Karapanagiotidis had a nickname growing up. The boy with the unpronounceable surname was dubbed \\u201cMr Alphabet\\u201d. As the child of Greek immigrants, the now CEO and founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre thus grew up with an acute appreciation of the otherness experienced by refugees, and the need to wrap your arms around such people.

\\u201cYou understand the importance of what we call \\u2018philoxenia\\u2019 in Greek culture, which is to welcome and accept the stranger,\\u201d he says. \\u201cEverything I do comes from an understanding of where I come from, what I\\u2019ve been through, and how lucky I am to be here," he tells Konrad Marshall, senior writer for Good Weekend Magazine.\\xa0

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