I wonder if as time goes on and Australia's immigration levels from Asia keep up, if we're going to head towards a situation that's more like yours.
That would be really interesting to see! I was just reading more on the politicization of the Asian-American movement, and it seemed like it took several national incidences to really get things started (most notably, the Vincent Chin murder, which also crossed some ethnicity lines -- he was Chinese, but murdered b/c people thought he was Japanese). I don't want anything like that to happen anywhere, but I keep wondering if something that drastic that crosses ethnicity lines is something that shakes people into action.
Sigh. Also, the Asian-American movement here is still pretty young -- the Vincent Chin case which really kicked stuff off happened in the 80s, and because of the US's racist immigration policy, there weren't very many Asians here until post-1965.
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Sat, Aug. 11th, 2007 09:46 pm (UTC)That would be really interesting to see! I was just reading more on the politicization of the Asian-American movement, and it seemed like it took several national incidences to really get things started (most notably, the Vincent Chin murder, which also crossed some ethnicity lines -- he was Chinese, but murdered b/c people thought he was Japanese). I don't want anything like that to happen anywhere, but I keep wondering if something that drastic that crosses ethnicity lines is something that shakes people into action.
Sigh. Also, the Asian-American movement here is still pretty young -- the Vincent Chin case which really kicked stuff off happened in the 80s, and because of the US's racist immigration policy, there weren't very many Asians here until post-1965.