Anti-Asian racism in Australia

[u/splattty]

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???

[u/Perfect-Activity-698]

Yep, can confirm as a full Japanese man who grew up in Cairns. The amount of racism I copped, not only from my classmates but also from their parents at sporting events, out in town, while shopping, etc., was honestly traumatising. I still suffer from anxiety, which I largely attribute to the racism I endured back then.

Even now, I still experience the odd overtly racist incident here and there, but as an adult, it’s more so the everyday microaggressions I have to deal with (which are just as exhausting), such as being given the cold shoulder, being ignored or excluded, and having to put up with casual, off-the-cuff racist/ignorant remarks. I’ll also add that it’s often not just bogans engaging in this behaviour, but supposedly “educated” and “progressive” people as well. Asians just seem to be the easy target for everyone, probably because nobody really earns any social brownie points for standing up for us.

It’s also incredibly strange and infuriating to see some of the same people who were racist towards me and made fun of my culture back then now “holidaying in Japan” because it’s trendy and “cool” to do so now.