The Story of Growing Up Asian Australian

Today's video is about what it's like growing up Asian Australian, the conflict of growing up in two different cultures and finally accepting my cultural identity.

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CHAPTERS:
00:47 How Asians came to Australia
01:57 The Opium Wars
03:14 The Gold Rush
05:19 The 21st Century
06:03 The conflict of living in two different cultures
06:56 Cultural stories
08:43 Being Asian in the workplace
10:56 Changing perceptions of Asians in the West
12:28 Accepting and loving your Asian Australian Identity

Disclaimer: This video is for entertainment purposes only.

[samDLBJAusMelb]

The opium wars were caused by the fact that the Qing dynasty government wanted to protect their own opium business against foreign businessmen. Qing dynasty, there were a lot of Qing businessmen selling opium to the people. Never has there been a time in Chinese history that the government cared about their people. The history told here is what is taught in China and is inaccurate. Also, it is hard to say what culture Australia has. Modern Chinese people don't really have strong tie with the so-called chinese culture. Chinese culture is inconsistent over the thousands of years due to different rulers from various backgrounds. There is not much difficulty for kids to grow up in Australia, compared to those growing up in China. Foreign minister Penny Wong is Chinese-Malaysian-Australian.

[Jun-prli]

Also, please add that in Australia, the number of students taking an Asian language has dropped significantly, especially in the past 10 years.

[arthurwatts]

Sprung up ? The Chinatowns in Sydney and Melbourne have been there for at least a century, in one form or another. Granted, they weren't terribly popular with xenophobes, but that was before Australians became more widely travelled. I still prefer the Australian version of 'Chinese food' to anything I've encountered in Asia. Even in a Thai city dominated by Chinese Thais, and awash with Western tourists, I had to do some digging to find a restaurant that made 'sweet and sour pork' the way they do in Australia. The British left us with very little in the way of a culinary tradition (whatever foodies today may claim) and without Indian, Thai and Chinese cooking we would be a much poorer country.

[listohan]

It might be easier to grow up Asian in Australia because we are so used to taking the piss out of each of us anyway.

[Willxdiana]

my canto is at hsk6 - 12 years old. but if I speak hk cantonese, Im at native fluency. My Mandarin is at hsk7-9. Native like proficiency
I spend half a decade looking for my identity after I left the mainland even though Im a abc. my inner child always catches up to me

[garyp]

Lived my life in Australia, Japan and HK but have parents who are from the mainland. Ironically I identify much more with being Australian the last 10 years living in Japan and HK as I've always been put in a position to represent Australia and the Australian way of life not just amongst my Japanese community but also the expat community.

Returning to Australia has been a somewhat of a reverse culture shock as most Asian Australians I've witnessed identify themselves by their ethnicity and do not seem to feel or act Australian at all. This is in stark contrast to my Asian American or Asian Canadian community who's as American or Canadian as any other ethnicity in north America. Which raises the question are Asian Australian segregated within the Australian society?

[grandiora]

This place is completely incompatible with me. Coming from one of the 1st tier cities in China, I really wished that my parents never had the annoying thought of immigrating here.

[JonKino]

How many Chinese can speak a Chinese language in Australia? Or in the West for that matter? Not many.
How many Australians can speak English growing up in China or other Asian nations? Virtually all.
It is all about discrimination, propagated by the people (in the west) as well as the western media.