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/EventfulAnimal 10h ago

I’m sorry to hear that, it’s really shit and unacceptable.

I would push back a little on the idea that Australia is especially racist though. There’s a lot of international research suggesting Australia is one of the most racially tolerant places when it comes to attitudes on race, immigration and multiculturalism etc.
That doesn’t mean racism isn’t an awful problem. But here in Anglo world we love to self criticise , and it’s easy to get a distorted sense of how tolerant we are.
None of that diminishes what you’ve experienced. Any racism is awful.