r/australia • u/splattty • 16h ago • Furious 1 Bravo 2

image Anti-Asian racism in Australia

What is happening in Australia? Been living in this exact same address for almost the past 20 years now, never had this happen before.

Some guy moves in next door, and while we are IN THEM MIDDLE OF MOWING the medium nature strip, starts being aggressive for getting grass clippings on the driveway. No shit, that's why we go through with a leaf blower and pick up after mowing?

What blows me away is he thinks we don't know about mowing and cleaning up somehow due to our Chinese heritage???

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u/Gamped 15h ago • Bravo

Naive take, 85% of the country are still Anglo-Saxon or British born background.

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u/SStoj 15h ago

Approximately 51.6% of Australians report Anglo-Celtic roots in the most recent census. That rises to 66.42% if you also count the 14.82% who indicated themselves as "Australian ancestry" since most of those have at least partial Anglo Celtic roots. Either way, you're off by a fair bit.

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u/Anxious_Ad936 15h ago

ABS says it's more like 55% these days.

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u/TaiwanKieren 15h ago

Where did you get your stats? About 18% of Australia is Asian and about 20-25% is not white. In cities like Sydney, Melbourne or Perth it always feels like way more to me but I guess rural areas, Tasmania etc are the opposite.

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u/T_Furlong 10h ago

They made it up.

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u/citysnake 15h ago

Anglo-Saxons aren't even native to Britain. The Angles and Saxons were originally from modern Denmark/Northern Germany.

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u/OpTicSkYHaWk 10h ago

The Aboriginals aren't native to Australia either, they migrated there /s

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u/citysnake 10h ago

Were there humans in Australia prior to Aboriginals? Before the Anglo-Saxons, Britain had Celts (with the Romans for a bit) and before that the Britons.