So China just released a travel advisory warning its citizens it'd dangerous to visit Australia? Relations between the two countries seem to be getting worse not better. If there is discrimination against Asians (and I figure there probably is to some extent or another), why not ask PM Morrison to appeal to Australians to remain calm and stop maltreating Asians? Why go the travel advisory route, unless they're also trying to hurt Australia's tourism?
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/...assaults-during-pandemic-20200512-p54s6f.html
More than 300 people from Chinese or east Asian backgrounds have reported being racially abused, assaulted or harassed in public in Australia as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
People have been spat at and called "dirty" and blamed for the spread of COVID-19, according to research by an alliance of Asian-Australian groups.
This included being yelled at last month while carrying boxes of donated face masks into Town Hall.
"A lady literally said, 'Who did you steal those off?' Followed by, 'That’d be right, stealing and sending it back to China.' " he said.
Cr Le Liu was born in Shanghai but has lived in Australia for 30 years. The masks had been donated by Chinese businesses for distribution to city charities.
Groups including the Asian Australian Alliance and Being Asian Australian, along with the writer Erin Chew and other individuals, have been tracking racial attacks.
They have set up an online system to record abuse, which has received more than 300 reports during the pandemic, about one-third of which involved physical assaults.
Mainly just Nonsense !
One will always have some idiots within every Nation.
Some of them maybe justified for their actions, 300 as such is bugger all, their are a hell of a lot of Asians in Australia.
They bring it on themselves mainly for much abuse, when I lived in Darwin I like Chinese food, but go to the takeaway for lunch and ask for a small fried rice and the morons would always always always come with a bigger one, so what you had to do is give the correct money before you asked them for such. it's just part of the games that they play because Aussies will just take what's given and pay more because we do not like to argue, but the Asians culture is to haggle and argue, so they take you for a fool, their boss pushes them to do as such because it's smart business. but you will get the od person who will abuse the Asian for being a scammer and rightly so.
If they want to be in Australia they have to fit in with our culture or take the abuse and if we go over to their Nations we have to try and fit in with their culture ways as well or they sure will let you know with abuse as well.
Had a Russian bloke working with us once and he would complain that Aussie people did not take a shine to him and people would say why do you talk to that %&@! he is a bastard ! yes he is but I have to work in with people of my trade, he just does not understand our culture here and he was set in his ways, he would abuse everyone at the drop of a hat and old Zac's wife came to work with him on the job sight and this Russian said to her that a woman's place is in the kitchen and the bedroom, he was not joking at all.
So their is a whole lot of issues that can come about, just in misunderstanding for one, that can cause much fiction at times. Not to mention that many Aussies just don't understand what them lot are talking about.
My bother in law went to the UK and they thought that he was being rude with some of the things that he said and he is the most docile person who would never try to offend anyone. but because of the Aussie take on words is somewhat different to the UK and also the USA have some words they use that is very offensive to us, or even down right stupid but it just does not mean the same thing, as we may think it does.