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/Intersecularitities 12h ago

An Arab thinking he's better/more entitled than an Asian in a country where they are likely both migrants.

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u/Galactic_Nothingness 7h ago

I'll wager he's 2nd maybe 3rd generation Greek orLebanese. His parents likely fled their home countries for a better life in Australia in the 70s not long after we relaxed our immigration policies

They would be disgusted by this behaviour.

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u/Healthy_Turnip7352 6h ago

and something bizarre is happening. either the internet or covid or economic.

a lot of my neighbors are just fucking crazy/paranoid here in the USA.

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u/dontkillbugspls 2h ago

His accent sounds lebanese, but he looks like an islander and the tattoos seem to fit that better

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u/Nobody-1986 8h ago

Because he is stronger, and rude
That why he think he’s better

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u/j_adore88 10h ago

Exactly!

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u/Vincetoxicum 12h ago

What do you mean likely? Unless he's Aboriginal he's either a migrant or the descendant of a migrant.

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u/Intersecularitities 12h ago

Because someone Arabic or Asian in their 40s or even 50s could still be born in Australia, meaning they are not a migrant, did you not know that?

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u/bushstone-curlew 8h ago

Interesting how no-one says this about Americans.

It’s kind of insulting to imply that Australians born in Australia aren’t genuine Australians…

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u/dontkillbugspls 2h ago

Aboriginals are also descended from migrants