Racism on the rise in Australia

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Keyword tags: #Racism  #Australia society  #Chinese  #immigrant

 At the moment, white people and other immigrants from other parts of the world consist of the main part of immigrants, which makes Australia becoming a typical multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country. At the same time, immigrants from other regions also enjoy better treatment and higher social status, as well as this multi-cultural ideal appeared in the Australian national anthem. In this kind of social environment, Australia should be a high tolerance country with different races. In fact, racism is being gradually increasing in recent years, especially for new generation of Asian immigrants- Chinese.

Racism is listed in the section of social issues on Australian government official website. Dr Helen Szoke said: ‘Racism does exist in Australia. We know this is a fact. Our own complaints at the Australian Human Rights Commission tell us that’, Race Discrimination commissioner from Australian Human Rights Commission.

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From the neutral angle to analyze:

In the context of economic globalization, due to countries were frequent exchanges and cultural communications are increasing, reasons of racism are turn to economy rather than merely prejudice and misunderstanding. From the view of economy, Chinese market brings profits to Australian economy, they accelerated the development of the Australian economy. Credit Suisse economists Hassan Tevfik and Damien Boey note that ‘the Chinese invest more than $5 billion a year in residential property in Australia, accounting for about 18 per cent of new supply in Sydney and 14 per cent in Melbourne’.

Although increasing number of Chinese provide more wealth and resources to the Australian market, their ways and habits are changing the Australians’ life, even they caused a threat and challenge to locals. Since a large number of Chinese people into Australia, they occupy a part of employ resources and living resources. This kind of Chinese acts are regarded as aggress Australian living space and social resources. For example, the consequences of Free Trade Agreements were that trade union issued a series of warnings about cheap Chinese labour undercutting Australians’ wages.

Therefore, some racism incident happened in Australia society, including some Chinese people suffered words and actions of racial discrimination, such as

‘Go back to China’: Australian police charge woman for racist train rant                           Racist tirade on Sydney bus rattles Chinese-Australian woman
Racist tirade by woman at Chinese-Australian couple taking lunch break in a Sydney park 

Interview

There are two types of people who are I want to interview.Chinese once suffered racial discrimination who I am going to interview. Chinese are discriminated by locals has always been a hot issue. I want to understand their feelings, views and claims.

Australians against racism which is an organization aims to counter destructive stereotyping of race and culture by actively promoting understanding and debate through the media, arts, education and the law. I want to understand the current situation of racial discrimination in Australia through interview the organization, know the current goals of their activities and projects.

My preferred online publication is The Sydney Morning Herald.