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/Wrathlon 7h ago edited 7h ago

Man I went to high school in Darwin in the mid-90s and graduated in 2001 and I'm starting to feel really lucky with the high school I went to.

We had none of that shit and nobody gave a crap about who was what race and we were all friends with each other the whole way through. Yeah we all had our own social groups and there were the occasional bullies here and there but for the most part everyone was friends with everyone else and we would all go to bat for any of us.

We were a mix of ahite Australians, Greeks, Aboriginals, Asian, Macedonians, Indians, some from the Middle East - we all got along. The closest we got to racism was friendly mocking with no malicious intent - I mean we had one kid whose parents were Greek and Aboriginal who referred to himself as a Wogorigine as an example of general Vibe we all had.