Is Australia most racist country towards Indians?

Yes australians are in my long experience usually deeply racist. This does not mean that all of them automatically hate people of colour, or fellow caucasian races however they have issues that clearly grate on them accepting South Asians who are not culturally just like them.However I would view it as partly down to the politics of race including their own dismal heritage founded on the sad rejection by their motherland and own race (Britain) for crimes, poverty or misfortune and the crime of bullying the true Australian nation (Aborigines) out of and in their own homeland, another sad wrongdoing. Whatever races have since migrated there, they sit in the middle of 2 great wrongdoings that created the inception of Australia the nation as we now find it. The empire created many pecking orders and the race issues Australians have with former members of the Empire, such as Indians, means that the rejected children resent the adoptive children, especially when the adoptive children are celebrated and extremely successful in Britain and the rest of the world as South Asians are now and Australians are not.It is an undestandable tension, even competitiveness in race relations for them but an undesireable experience in meeting any Australian if you are Asian. Of course the humans beneath can connect if bothered to but in most situations you meet such as work or socially, you are not forced to become friends and so gain a better respect of differences and understanding. I think there is also a cultural clash. Asians are more intense, focussed, hardworking, motivated and aim high whilst Australians are noted for being laid back, travellers and not valueing education as highly as Asian culture to whom barbies and beach life isnt the stereotypical norm unless on holiday or a dropout. So there is an educational kind of class difference and tension as Australians always seem so thick to me. Its not just the accent which to a traditional English tuned ear rises in a question at the end of every phrase as if they dont know anything and need to ask about everything.This has come into youth estuary English. Of course it is superficial as the Australian could be a brain surgeon, but its culturally something that those of us groomed to British snobberies find abrasive. The psyche of Australians also tends to be bullish, thickskinned, insensitive to the point of being crass probably forged as a mechanism of denial of their cultural heritage, history of crime as the worlds most famous open prison and the underlying stigma of ostracism. Until Australians face up to their past instead of brushing it under the carpet, especially the racism, the apparent denseness will continue to express itself because it is a form of mind numbing denial amidst deep class issues - criminal classes for instance. Disinherited caucasians disinherit the aborigines and abuse them and other peoples of colour they deem lower in the pecking order especially when they climb higher than their expectations. Asians do not hate Austrlians but I know from generations of experience repeatedly that they are extremely racist, apartheid in their history with us and form judgements about me that show their issues up and that there is a huge culture and educational clash, no matter how educated they are in their system. Its sad and I think it will be a great country in a few decades because of the amount of Asians who have migrated there bringing their work ethics and brainpower to this new country.Saying all that, Im open to better race relations but would be surprised to ever meet an Australian who didnt hate what I represent as an Asian.

James72, my experience with your fellow countrymen has been exactly the opposite. During all my travels, I have yet to meet a polite and good Australian - more so in the Orient where most Australians carry a superior attitude, while in the west in a white country, the same Australian is subdued and behaves himself.

Subha, enough already please. You can't be making generalizations of my country or it's people like this. What happened was wrong, the people responsible were wrong and I hope they get punished severely for their actions. This is NOT a true representation of my country, it is an isolated incident that unfortunately gets mimicked throughout the world, including India. I lived in Mumbai for a year or so and witnessed many instances of discrimination. Should I generalize ALL Indians because of it? Of course not! What I CAN'T tolerate, are generalizations and stereotypings based on the actions of a few. Please take a step back and think about what you are saying here.

I am not generalizing. These are few instances.

Subha, all due respect, but you HAVE been. I understand your frustration and pain concerning such a situation and especially when you consider that I'm an Australian with a strong connection with India, I feel just as horrified by it as you do. The key here is to acknowledge it's negative impact (which we are all doing) and then prove together that this is NOT a global phenomenon by leading the way in positive interaction between us all.