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I don't think either countries are racist (hard to generalize), but I think there is, to some degree, some stigma associated with Australia due to its White Australia immigration policy. Kind of funny because most countries like US and Canada do have preferred immigrants as well, but somehow the White Australia Policy does stand out even though it's a thing of the distant past.
I think Australians are very open minded and friendly. But it doesn't help that a very small and segment of the population act foolishly sometimes, leading to incidents like the violent attacks on Indians in Australia a few years back.
I don't think either countries are racist (hard to generalize), but I think there is, to some degree, some stigma associated with Australia due to its White Australia immigration policy. Kind of funny because most countries like US and Canada do have preferred immigrants as well, but somehow the White Australia Policy does stand out even though it's a thing of the distant past.
I think Australians are very open minded and friendly. But it doesn't help that a very small and segment of the population act foolishly sometimes, leading to incidents like the violent attacks on Indians in Australia a few years back.
Okay. There were no violent attacks on Indians.
Again, three incidents
1. A young man robbed, by a 16 year old and stabbed
2. An Indian killed by another Indian national
3. A car set on fire, which was an insurance scam.
Okay. There were no violent attacks on Indians.
Again, three incidents
1. A young man robbed, by a 16 year old and stabbed
2. An Indian killed by another Indian national
3. A car set on fire, which was an insurance scam.
I wasn't saying that Australians are racist or anything close because of those incidents, sorry maybe my poor choice of words have led you to be so defensive... If you read my post carefully, I was using the attacks as isolated incidents (though seems a number of them were reported, but thats wikipedia) rather than the norm, and that it became a big debate, or at least sensationized by the media in Australia and abroad.
Is Brisbane even worse than Sydney regarding racism?? Or vice versa??
From personal experience, racism in Sydney was the worst during the two months spent travelling across Australia.
Not boasting or anything but I dress decently well and can speak English well. But I still encountered name calling by random Aussies on several occasions. This has never happened to me at all in Canada and the States.
From my purely amateurish research, it seems like Japanese and other East Asians are better integrated into Canada. There have been several Japanese/East Asian MPs in Canada. One can't say the same federally for Australia.
I could be wrong, however.
California is a good place to be Asian, especially the Bay Area. Until recently, both San Francisco and Oakland had Asian-American mayors; Ed Lee and Jean Quan respectively. Quan is not longer mayor of Oakland.
What kind of lifestyle are you looking for and does the demographic composition matter to you?
I would recommend most of mid to large-sized cities near the metro area in the West Coast(of the US).
If the situation is only strictly limited between those two countries you proposed, Vancouver has the best reputation among the Asian community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogr...an_ethnicities
I'm thinking OP is Japanese-American. Why do to another country, when you can live in CA or HI. HI has the largest proportion of Japanese in the Western world.
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