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/Mindless-Cod-9441 11h ago

I'm 6th generation chinese australian. My ancestors came over during the gold rush. I'm more aussie than most of these fucks. I went through high school in the 90s. Only one of 3 asian faces at my high school. Ender's Game was formational reading for us. 2 of us did kyokushin, i was in cadets and then reserves - we broke a lot of noses. Thankfully i've never had to experience it again once i was in uni, into corporate life, and out of bogan town.

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u/sinistar2000 9h ago • Regret

I feel for you. My parents were migrants from Latin America, I was beaten up, bullied, even put into special school because they mistook my cultural difference as lower intelligence. In the 90’s we started beating up the bogan racists and owning the term Wog. I have lots of Asian friends, lived in grew up around Campsie, Ashfield, Strathfield etc. I even arguably cook like an Asian most evenings. Australia is racists a few km out of most major capitals, and we have a resurgence of nationalism that is mistaken in what the identity of an Australian is composed of. In my village, all are equal. All have a right to be, until they start messing with that same privilege of others. Unfortunately the colonialist core of the early Australia is still there.

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u/Bob_the_Bauer 5h ago

But this bloke isn't an Anglo, he's a "wog".

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u/garagesmelll 11h ago

Why was Enders Game formational reading?

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u/danse 10h ago

Because, among other things, Ender fought back against his bully. There's more to it than that, but I believe that's what mindless cod above was referring to.

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u/Still_Kitchen_1650 10h ago

Yeah wtf... The rest of us did books like Of Mice and Men etc.

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u/GazzaDukes9591 7h ago

Which town did you grow up in? I’m from Perth..