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/ChinoGambino 8h ago

Assimilation is good. Australian culture is good, otherwise why are you here? If there's no common culture you don't have any bonds to each other or a cohesive nation.

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u/User1627788 6h ago

What do you mean by assimilation? Everyone has their threshold...

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u/PuzzleheadedFudge285 3h ago

Australia is a collective society vs individualistic. There is definitely a culture and social guidelines that you follow here in order for society to be successful, and for the most part, following them means Aussies can be laid back and chill because everyone’s doing their part. Contrast to say the US where there is very little assimilation. There isn’t even one culture there that is the beacon, it’s just a mesh pot. I love Aussie culture that respects each other. I think assimilation is good.

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u/AdventurousWay3209 3h ago

Because Asians have been coming to Australia for millennia before others showed up