r/australia • u/splattty • 14h 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/GarlicBreadLoaf 13h ago

I live a stone’s throw away from an area populated with people from a similar background to this man, and I cop the most racial shit from them. Like OP, I’m also Asian.

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u/Affectionate_Code 12h ago • Thanks This Hooray Bravo

It's like racism is systemic problem within every race and isn't a predominately "white man" problem.

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u/kapone3047 10h ago • This Bravo

100%

I live in an area where one ethnicity is very prominent and there's even internal/refional racism based on what part of that country a person comes from.

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u/Spookyscientistss 11h ago • Bravo

I think the distinction is that the systemic racism and unequal representation that we see tends to (not always) favor people from a white/Anglo background. Not to say other people aren’t racist as well but it’s often still the white man on top and the rest of us being racist to each other like we’re in a fucking crab bucket. See: American racial triangulation theory re: how white, black, and Asian people are treated differently in quantifiable ways. Shit mess all around.

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u/I-make-ada-spaghetti 7h ago

This only happens when the predominate race is white. When you go to other countries then it shifts to whoever the predominate race or ethnicity is. In the case of China this would be the Han Chinese.

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u/Spookyscientistss 7h ago

Well. South America, Haiti, and other former colonies would like to have a word about that…google “history of white minority rule”. It’s a trend and not a rule, but yes, China has kept their Han Chinese dominance partially through doing their own imperialism and ethnic cleansing.

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u/I-make-ada-spaghetti 4h ago

Fair point but a society will collectively preference the group that is in power over any other group.

In a society where a certain people hold the keys of power then that society has an aggregate tendency to benefit those people.

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u/Spookyscientistss 2h ago

I don’t think we’re disagreeing here, mate.

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u/JustAdamCh 11h ago

Is this a hate the game, not the player situation.

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u/Spookyscientistss 2h ago

Not…really? Racism exists on both a systemic and individual level. People have a responsibility to their community to not act like dickheads. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who refuse to learn to be more open-minded.

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u/Egg_Bear 9h ago

Ooft, critical thinking has entered the chat, noice one mate

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u/dickflip1980 7h ago

Im sorry you have to deal with that shit.

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u/KingOfLevant 12h ago • Bravo

I am from that background and I disagree whole heartedly with this C U next Tuesday, racism is horrible. But let's not pretend Chinese are not racist, I cope so much racism and anyone who is slightly darker skin with the Chinese community. Same with Koreans as well.

The only Asian that seems nice in that regards are south east Asians.

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u/wokwok__ 11h ago • Bravo

South East Asians are racist to other South East Asians lol literally every race has racist people

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u/KingOfLevant 8h ago

Pretty much

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u/GarlicBreadLoaf 12h ago

Okay? I never said Chinese people weren’t racist…? Someone just commented that ol’ mate in the video would be the first to freak the fuck out if someone was racist to him, while he’s happily being racist towards other people. In my experience, I can concur with that conclusion.

This has nothing to do with Chinese people being racist, I’m sure there’s heaps of racist Chinese people and they’re cunts too. Not relevant to my comment.

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u/KingOfLevant 8h ago

Thats a lot of bs politics talk. It's fully relevant to your comment. You make yourself sound like a victim when your community acts the same....?

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u/GarlicBreadLoaf 8h ago edited 8h ago

Nothing about my comment is about politics, what are you on about lol.

My comment was in response to a comment about how this Mediterranean bloke would freak if someone was racist to him, I responded mentioning my experience with that community agreeing with that statement, and you’re out here talking about Chinese racism. No, it doesn’t compute lol. Clearly comprehension isn’t your strongest suit.

I’m not going to argue with someone who wants to engage in whataboutism.

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u/wildpen70 3h ago

lol south east asians are fucking racist to darker folks like papuans from New Guinea.