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the americanisation of asian-australian culture and thinking is weird to witness, esp when it& #39;s one-way
ofc there are a lot of commonalities that are interesting to explore but so often people assume that things are the same across aus/usa when the demographics are so different
for starters, people of asian descent make up over 16% of the australian population but only 6.5% of americans. in melb and syd it& #39;s 24% and 28% - higher than anywhere in the us except a few bits of california (and hawaii but hawaii is in asia)
chinese americans also seem more aligned with korean and japanese americans as east asians? while in oz we& #39;re more grouped with vietnamese and se asian communities (maybe this is just where i grew up though)
then there& #39;s historical trepang trade routes, cultural connections between austronesian peoples, shared experiences of british colonisation (and postcolonial ethnonationalism), the specific imagery of asian invasion, "boat people" and border control, &c &c
a lot of factors that introduce different tensions and potentialities and problems. history matters, geography matters
so for example if you& #39;re using american discourse re model minority, you gotta remember that asians in australia are highly visible & the largest minority. we& #39;re not under the radar, we& #39;re often the focus of auspol. there are other ways to analyse class & conditional whiteness
also, the us census and other polls collect data on race. the australian census collects data on ancestry and country of birth. these stats often stand-in for race, but it& #39;s not asking the same question
