the americanisation of asian-australian culture and thinking is weird to witness, esp when it'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'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're more grouped with vietnamese and se asian communities (maybe this is just where i grew up though)

then there'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're using american discourse re model minority, you gotta remember that asians in australia are highly visible & the largest minority. we're not under the radar, we'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's not asking the same question

anyway we've all been talking about this stuff since forever but i think it's escalated recently with the subtle asian traits generation