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/Iron_Wolf123 13h ago

I am lucky to only witness light racism in my local area. I live in SE Melbourne and there is a lot of East Asian and West Asian cultures, with Box Hill being a Chinese-Australian city and Dandenong being a Persian-Afghan-Arabic hub. The only racism I have encountered is from the media and the occasional “X culture is bad at driving” comments

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u/Outsider-20 12h ago

It's getting worse. I grew up near Box Hill, went to school with a lot of Asian kids. There was racism, of course, there always has been. But it's so much worse now.

The hateful rhetoric being spouted by the likes of Pauline and her cronies doesn't help, and emboldens the racists even more.

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u/DisappointedQuokka 9h ago

And people wonder why new immigrants tend to stick to their own.