Bronwyn,

We are all Asian now and you need to accept it.

This is the result of the Great Asianisation Period (1980-2020) in Australian history and Australia is now an Asian nation-state.

So stop referring to yourself as an Anglo-Australian and start referring to yourself as Asian. We all need to break away from these racially discriminatory terms like Anglo-Australian, Chinese-Australian, Eskimo-Australian, etc., and see each other as a community of Asians.

PS Actually I'm not Anglo-Australian. I'm Anglo-Danish-French-Irish-Australian - just to give you an idea of how ridiculous these terms have become.

Embrace your Asianess Bronwyn otherwise you will be left behind as some sort of un-Asian racial dinosaur.

Mr O. Disagree with your take and B's analysis. Both of wich are subjective and flawed. When Mandarin is our national language? May see eye to eye with your take. Until then, will remain a Celtic Anglo, spiced/mixed with half a dozen others. That said, we are all Africans are we not? Given the origins of man!
Alan B.

Alan B.,

Yes biologically speaking our species of the genus homo first showed up in Africa about 200,000 BP and left Africa to populate the rest of the world about 60,000 BP.

But the Asianization of Australia during the Great Asianization Period (1980-2020) in Australian history is not about biology but about geography, culture and ethnicity. Under the rubric of Australian Multiculturalism we have been able to make our continent part of the Asian land mass and organise our society as a reflection of Asia. Keep in mind Asia stretches from the Mediterranean to the Pacific and the Arctic to now Tasmania and has dispersed cultures and ethnicities. Australia is now a microcosm of this 21st century Asia.

Alan you must discard you notions of race grounded in Celtic origins and embrace your Asianess. We might live in a congeries of ethnicity and culture but we all now share a common Asian identity in a nation-state that is now welded to Asia for eternity.