"But, you know what, like, my parents are them." "You speak English and you're assimilated so you're OK, you're not one of them," they said. Jinghua said they were often told they were accepted because of their proficiency in English. "She would come home and tell me people would talk to her differently, treat her differently, speak down to her," Cindy said. "And I was like, 'Yeah, I know, I grew up here in the Australian education system'," Cindy said.Ĭindy also found her mother, whose second language is English, was treated differently from her.
"I think people should just cut us some slack," Lily said.Ĭindy Tan, a Malaysian-Chinese born in Australia, has also received compliments on her English. " felt like a return to the mid-90s level of Pauline Hanson racism," they said, referring to the start of the pandemic when COVID-19 was being labelled a 'Chinese virus'.ĭespite having lived in the country for years, she sometimes still receives compliments like "oh, you speak really good English". Jinghua, who emigrated from Shanghai to Melbourne in 1991 at the age of four, said racism worsened during the past year. Restaurants refused to serve Chinese Australian family "That's how we are trained - brainwashed to always think our government is right," she said. "A lot of us have travelled overseas, we want to see things become more transparent."Īt school, Lily was taught never to question the government. "That was something that was shocking, like, something I should know as a Chinese person," she said. Lily, a business entrepreneur in Sydney who arrived in Australia as an international student from Wuhan, didn't know about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre until she was 18. "When you're there, don't talk about the political situation, don't talk back, and you're OK," he said. "ĭouglas usually visits China each year, and while he's there he doesn't discuss politics.
"I don't have a say – even Chinese citizens don't have a say.
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