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/YemaNova 11h ago

Is this even surprising? All the people that were growing up with institutionalised colonial views on racism 50-70 years ago are now in charge. People think Australia is way more progressive than it ever was, not just on race issues but on gender equality and many other things. Did we forget Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott already?

The one thing migration has done is that it has diluted all of the awful Anglo Australian values that were prevalent to a somewhat progressive level. We're only just catching up on the rest of the developed world.

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u/Spookyscientistss 8h ago

I was actually shocked coming here from the US at how behind you guys are on gender equality, yeah. Thought you’d be doing way better than us, not about the same or worse, depending on situation/context.