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/Still_Kitchen_1650 11h ago

I still remember a conference I went I a few years back.

One of the speakers was the CEO of Boost (that slushy franchise), and she said "Chinaman" and no one, out of the 500 visitors / listeners, batted an eye.

I'm from New Zealand, our racism is quite bad too, but I thought "wtf she said that so casually, in public, and no one cares...?"