Mr O,

Sorry I don't understand what you're carrying on about.

You sound quite irrational.

Go talk to someone else.

cont'd ...

BTW: Australian residents identifying themselves as
having Chinese ancestry in the 2016 census made up
5.6% of the Australian population.

Suburbs which tend to attract Chinese include -
Hurstville, Burwood, Chatswood, and Ashfield.

If you want to avoid Chinese people live somewhere else
or don't go to those areas.

Problem solved.

Where we live in Melbourne we don't look at people by
their race, colour, religion, et cetera. To us they're
the same as us - human beings going about their daily
lives. The only ones that draw our attention are ill-
mannered, rude, people - on the street, in the shops,
and of course - on this forum.

Misopinionated,

Gosh, a lot of people look Chinese, don't they ? Therefore, they must be Chinese.

According to Wikipedia, at the last Census in 2016, 38.2% of people in Sydney speak a language other than English at home with Mandarin (4.7%), Arabic (4.0%), Cantonese (2.9%), Vietnamese (2.1%) and Greek (1.6%) the most widely spoken.

It's possible that quite a proportion of those in Sydney who speak Mandarin (4.7 %) don't support the CCP regime. Perhaps some of those Mandarin-speakers are not actually from China at all, but from Taiwan. Most of those wouldn't support the CCP regime.

Support for totalitarianism would be lower among the Cantonese-speaking population.

Vietnamese are not Chinese.

Neither are most Thai, Indonesian or - perhaps this may surprise you, Misop - Greek. Okay, okay, some Greeks look a bit Chinese but they're not actually.

One thing you may learn if you ever get to university is not to leap to major conclusions from mere cursory observations. Most people learn to look a bit more deeply.

Joe

Foxy,

It's a little device I picked up called sarcasm.

But I'm sure you know exactly what it is I'm implying: The enemy is already inside the gate.

And your love of multiculturalism will now have us fighting a war to push China out of the South China Sea on two fronts.

Thanks Foxy, great work!

Misop,

Come to think of it, the great majority of Chinese who I have known didn't have Mandarin as their first Chinese language either: in Darwin, I think most Chinese-speakers there when I was a kid spoke Hokkien or Cantonese - certainly, the swear-words I learnt there seem to have been Cantonese.

Fellow-students since then have tended to be speakers of Hakka or Hokkien or Cantonese rather than Mandarin-speakers. I had a very good Shanghainese-speaking friend (that's someone from Shanghai, Misop). And currently I'm deeply in love with a Hakka-speaker.

When I worked at the Sunday markets here in Adelaide, I got to know many people who were Hazara (and looked, in your schema, Chinese), and also some lovely Uighur families (who also, in your schema, looked Chinese), as well as, of course, many Vietnamese and Indonesians. Even some South Americans who I thought at first might have been Asian, including one bloke from Nicaragua who had been a security policeman under the Sandinistas. (Ask a first-year politics student).

It's a complicated but never-endingly fascinating world, Misop, in which it is difficult to easily slot everybody in your simplistic schema.

Joe

Mr O,

I have an angel on one shoulder.
And a devil on the other.
I'm also deaf in one ear(smile).

Dear Joe,

Well said.