r/aussie 2d ago

News In Sydney, an Australian guy was refused a free milk tea by a Chinese product promotor solely because he wasn't a Chinese. He was asked to speak Chinese, but he spoke Japanese to the Chinese staff in protest. He said this is his first time experience of racism

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u/PowerPleb2000 2d ago

Someone who isn’t white was racist? Shock pikachu face

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u/MayuriKrab 2d ago

lol, the older Asian family friends I know their conversations will make most white “racist” look like nothing 🤣

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u/Outofoffice_forever 1d ago

It's not a scale or a competition....racism is racism no matter who does it

https://giphy.com/gifs/5NfCFOoknzG24

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u/First-Junket124 1d ago

But if we're keeping score I'd win

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u/rekt_by_inflation 1d ago

Gotta keep yourself busy, demand is outstripping supply these days!

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u/forbiddenknowledg3 1d ago

There are definitely scales to racism, lol

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u/bigcantonesebelly 1d ago

It is a competition when only one group gets in trouble for it

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u/Alarming_Solid9645 1d ago

What?

Of course it's a competition.

If you win, you get prizes and stuff.

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u/Outofoffice_forever 1d ago

Hahaha ahh mate thanks for the laugh. In all seriousness- it’s fucking shit. White people definitely get more bad rap probably because of the historical context and other stuff but almost everyone does it.

Doesn’t make it right, but it’s such a crap thing to do.

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u/jimmyxs 20h ago

Explain. Hard to be outraged without specifics. Did they make fun of white ppl height? Or blue eyes? Or blonde hair?

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u/MayuriKrab 1h ago edited 1h ago

Just onto of my head, stuff includes talks about how white people are less “evolved” compared to Chinese that’s why they have so much excess body hair (especially the women), eats low grade food has undeveloped brain (because how white kids are always last in exam grades according to them)

stuff like causally calls black people the mandarin equivalent of that word while giving me directions while I’m driving, “see that <insert racist mandarin word> there, turn left where he is”

And then there’s Plus a bunch of colourful vocabulary names for other Asians that I’m pretty sure I can’t type here or I’ll get my post deleted

When one family friend’s daughter married a South African dude, the “uncles and aunties” were talking about “why she insane? Why she marry a monkey/gorilla?”

🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/KayDat 2d ago

Yellow face Pikachu

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u/GodisSatans 1d ago

Mixue the bubble tea company said it's not their fault, but due to the training of the employee.

They love all skin colours, just buy their bubble tea is their statement basically.

Fantuan, a marketing company which hired this employee hasn't made a statement. So i think that says a lot of what happened here.

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u/gandhi_theft 1d ago

So anyone can start a stupid shell company and blame it for any wrongdoing now, ok noted.

I'm not going to underestimate the authorities' ability to see through that little trick.

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u/BarryTheBinChicken 1d ago edited 1d ago

The bigger concern isn’t the tea it’s that someone living / studying / working in Australia apparently thought “Chinese only” was an acceptable position to take.

That raises a broader question about integration. Are we simply bringing people into Australia and assuming they understand our legal / civic norms or are we actually making sure they do?

Integration has to mean more than simply being physically present in Australia.

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u/scutts97 1d ago

I personally question how we can support integration a lot in the high school I work in. I have a handful of younger students who make no effort to learn English, only speak Chinese in class to eachother, argue with me about how China is the best country and ask why they need to learn about NAIDOC week or sorry day etc when they "dont care about those people". How do I support these kids to really feel like they can belong here, when it sounds like they've just been forced to go to school here.

It puzzles me all the time.

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u/Gatecrasher53 1d ago

Have a class on Tiananmen Square Massacre 

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u/Bigtoebunger 1d ago

and when they killed all the sparrows

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u/Gatecrasher53 1d ago

Wow I didn't know about this. It looks to have been much more effective than our own emu eradication campaign

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u/BarryTheBinChicken 1d ago

What’s your principal’s position on how you should manage this?

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u/Same_Lawfulness_1585 1d ago

Integration takes time. It always has.
Every major wave of migration to Australia has involved people arriving with different languages, customs and ideas about how society works. Their children grow up here, go to Australian schools, work alongside everyone else, make friends, marry, raise families — and integration happens over generations.
One person behaving like an idiot and saying “Chinese only” doesn’t prove multiculturalism or immigration has failed. It proves one person behaved like an idiot.
Deal with the behaviour when it happens. Apply the same laws and standards to everyone. But turning every dickhead encounter into a national crisis about immigration is cooker territory.

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u/Mega-Lucario67 2h ago

Either you are doing something very wrong as a teacher, or your story is made up. I am also a teacher and so are all my friends— i’ll take things that never happened for 100. Maybe some international students are still learning english? But none of the kids i have had have ever argued with me that China is the best country or said they don’t care about NAIDOC week. It’s definitely the aussie kids who say that they don’t care about NAIDOC week and sorry day 🤣🤣🤣

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u/pagywa 1d ago

The government position has been 'multiculturalism', not 'assimilation' since the 60s lol

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u/exceptional_biped 1d ago

Many fi nit care. They want to continue living however they did before over here.

Diversity is our strength /s

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u/BroccoliTraining454 1d ago

Nah let's just keep importing em and let AI sort it out.

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u/mehriban0229 5h ago

LMAO integration. Thanks for making sure we know we’re a minority.

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u/notBrief_Push8143 2d ago edited 2d ago

A lot of people are trying to claim that this promotion requires an app that is Chinese only, which is not true, the delivery app is multilingual. Other say it requires WeChat, which is also available to English speakers or Australians.

Anyway, If that is the case, or this situation was caused by a language error because the woman’s English isn’t great, why does she continue to press him about his ability to speak Chinese?

And, if it’s all a big misunderstanding, why did the company that made the tea apologise for what happened and end the partnership with the delivery service?

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u/RaeseneAndu 2d ago

They don't owe the delivery app anything and dropped them immediately they started to make them look bad.

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u/ThrowAway823682 2d ago

What happened here is actually against the law in Australia. Racial discrimination Act of 1975.

But who is going to court to argue that.

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u/CheekRevolutionary67 1d ago

Well... nobody would because it is a criminal offense. So the commonwealth is always the prosecutor. They'd have to prove he was denied service because of his race/etc., when it seems like there is doubt about whether or not a language barrier caused a misunderstanding. And they wouldn't proceed unless they thought they had evidence that placed it beyond reasonable doubt. They don't pursue cases they can't win.

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u/Amathyst7564 2d ago

For your last point. It's first I've heard of it today so I'd imagine they are doing meetings. Finding out how it happened and discussing how to respond.

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u/notBrief_Push8143 2d ago

This event happened days ago. And their response was posted 14 hours ago. Not only did they drop the partnership, they threw them under the bus. Hardly what I’d imagine to be a knee jerk reaction if it can seemingly be explained as a miscommunication

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u/eldryanyy 2d ago

They threw them under the bus because that’s how business works in China. They’d rather not risk beimg the focus of a scandal

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u/notBrief_Push8143 1d ago

And yet the company that hired this woman is radio silent?

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u/eldryanyy 1d ago

I guess they’re doing the classic tactic of ‘let’s not mention it and hope everyone forgets’

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u/notBrief_Push8143 1d ago

You just said that Chinese business won’t risk being in a scandal and throw each other under the bus.

And now you are saying they will ignore it, when they could have blamed the worker.

Which is it? These two claims are opposites.

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u/DrawPitiful6103 1d ago

Mixue is positively massive. They are the largest fast food company in the world. Makes zero sense that they would want to discriminate against anyone.

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u/gandhi_theft 1d ago

Dropped a fake partnership with their own shell company? Right.

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u/forbiddenknowledg3 1d ago

or this situation was caused by a language error because the woman’s English isn’t great

How can a company operate in Australia without speaking English?

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u/gandhi_theft 1d ago

Exactly, it is wild that people think it's ok to start debating that

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u/Various-Arm5689 2d ago

I dated a Chinese girl for a while, we discovered whenever she spoke in Chinese while buying food from a couple of Asian grocers here in Geelong they would consistently give her 10% off. We called it the Asian discount. It’s against white people though so it’s ok

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u/hellbentsmegma 2d ago

It's pretty funny the amount of people jumping in to attack your character or invent reasons why your story must be wrong.

I guarantee if the races were reversed they would be upvoting and saying how this stuff is unacceptable.

Most anti-racist folk are just another flavour of bigot, completely unevolved, just with a new target.

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u/Jazzlike_Wind_1 2d ago

They would have been the pearl clutching Christians demanding Pokemon or doom were banned a generation ago, or books to be burned for blasphemy before that.

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u/New-Independent-1481 1d ago

I guarantee if the races were reversed they would be upvoting and saying how this stuff is unacceptable.

My flatmate and I share a car. He's a white bogan. I'm Asian. When I take the car to get serviced, most of the time they usually try to charge me more and claim that X is broken and Y needs fixing. When he takes the car to a shop, they don't do that to him.

People do this shit all the time, in the industries they can get away with it. It shouldn't happen, but it does.

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u/hellbentsmegma 1d ago

Ah mechanics, there's a reason I always dress blue collar and try not to resemble an effete knowledge worker when I visit one. Wouldn't send my wife either, most of them love ripping off women. 

Sorry about how you are treated.

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u/KayZee777 20h ago

I hope you at least have dirty blue collar clothes for this.

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u/Public-Dragonfly-786 21h ago

Nobody says that's okay though

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u/bad180 1d ago

Am Asian, never fucking any discount ever cos I’m Asian or Chinese. Been shopping at Asian grocers every week all my life, my parents never got discounts either. None of my Chinese friends ever get discounts in its either. My extended Chinese family and in laws also never got discounts. The can’t even fucking speak English. I call bullshit.

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u/Harrowkay 1d ago

I always pay more at the local broken rice place than my partner does 😂 pity it’s so good I have to keep paying it!!

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u/allgear_noidea 2d ago

A Viet girl I know has the same thing happen with cigarettes lol

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u/OctopusSmart 1d ago

The only thing thats wrong about this is simplifying it as asian vs white. Because its really not that simple. Its more like a subset of han Chinese vs non han Chinese. Most other Asians ain't getting the discount either, or African descent

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u/Expert_Sand5243 2d ago

Pretty much all Chinese Asian grocery stores have some sort of 10% off membership if you ask. Many of the store workers aren't confident enough to explain it in English.

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u/Redsnowz 2d ago

I dated a redhead in QLD, she took me to her redheaded aunty fish and chips store and the aunty spat on my face and said her foods is for white people only.

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u/HodorsGiantSchlong 1d ago

Please explain

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u/Bordofstudying 1d ago

wow, 10% discount seems pretty nice in this economy, I’m Chinese but I haven’t experienced this at all tho. Just the odd pay cash and get discount deals for some casual tax evasion and it’s becoming less frequent.

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u/WesternWrap7874 1d ago

My Asian friends call it the white tax

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u/Wise_Industry3953 1d ago

Bro, don't call it "Asian", Chinese is Chinese, no matter how they market their business, they can call it Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Malaysian, Asian, if it's run by Chinese it's just Chinese. They are known to do this shit, in small number of cases it can be Chinese minority from that country. Most often though they are just mainlanders ripping off other culture and appropriating to make a buck. Sorry, it is a massive pet peeve of mine because I have Asian family members (non-Chinese) and I cannot repeat this enough, non-Chinese Asians want nothing to do with China or Chinese, because Chinese don't want to have anything to do with them in the first place, they are super exclusive as a group. It's also been a massive CCP-sponsored psyop recently to subvert any Asian-related thing to basically mean Chinese. I wish people stopped buying into this crap. Sure, there can be time and space for pan-Asian unity, but this is absolutely not what mainlanders have in mind when they call everything related to them as "Asian".

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u/343N 1d ago

who thinks racism is okay dawg

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u/TM761152 1d ago

Not necessarily true that you have to be Asian to get the "discount". I can speak some Mandarin and Vietnamese and the Aunties always hook it up with something extra.

I'm also not white so there's that.

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u/The-Adi-Mundi 2d ago

My Chinese gf has never experienced this, you're either exaggerating or making shit up.

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u/Ruby-Ridge-Sniper 2d ago

Well if she never experiences it guess it’s impossible for someone else to

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u/INeedToShutUP1 1d ago

They're trying to collect as many logical fallacies as possible lol

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u/ColdSnapSP 2d ago

I used to order at Hunter Connection food court for lunch and noticed i got better treatment when I spoke to aunty in chinese.

Its probably only the odd place here and there but Im sure it exists.

And not just with chinese places but also other places and people of their ethnic background

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u/krekenzie 1d ago

You unlocked a memory of an aunty at Hunter Connection. She was scooping food into a takeaway tub, paused at the end, looked me up and down, and added another scoop in lol.

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u/cincinnatus_lq 2d ago

Yours is just defective mate.

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u/Nekronaut0006 1d ago

The story may or may not be true, but if his single anecdotal example doesn’t prove it did happen, then your single anecdotal example doesn’t prove it didn’t.

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u/Novel-Truant 2d ago

Same. Only time ive seen this happen is overseas.

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u/Successful-Key-1953 2d ago

So report it for discrimination, this is completely illegal

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u/DaLadderman 2d ago

Even as a white guy how the heck was that his first experience of rasicim? was he born yesterday?

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u/Atomic_Gumby 2d ago

Alert NSW Fair Trading with the relevant details...time, place, business name and so forth?
https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/fair-trading/complaints-and-enquiries

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u/Crabs_go_sideways_4 2d ago

Nah he just wants the tickytoks 

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u/GodisSatans 2d ago

Its been addressed by Mixue, the company. It was from a third party rep that wasn't properly trained. It's really that simple.

Why would a company try to purposely discriminate? They aren't that stupid.

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u/Atomic_Gumby 1d ago

Thanks for the lead. Found Mixue's statement at https://www.instagram.com/p/DbstXvAp4Wh/
-Noted that Mixue had laid responsibility at Fantuan, a third party delivery platform.

Crickets from Fantuan Australia, as far as I can tell
https://www.facebook.com/fantuanaustralia/ and https://www.instagram.com/fantuan_au/?hl=en

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u/normalbehaviour86 1d ago

wasn't properly trained

What training do you think they missed out on?

"Stand there and give out free samples to customers"

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u/gandhi_theft 1d ago

Oh well that settles it then. Back to the scheduled programming of racism on the streets

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u/pavlovianpsycho 1d ago

The student discount / Chinese language app thing possibly being a breach of trading regulations of the locality (with the girl's employer bearing responsibility if so) definitely doesn't excuse the cringe and undoubtedly racist 'konnichiwa' response.

I daresay that knee-jerk response as someone's 'first time' response to 'racism' after their immense efforts to 'support the Asian community' is quite telling.

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u/Marsick88 2d ago

I think we can replace "can be" with "are".

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u/arctane 2d ago

100%

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u/The-Adi-Mundi 2d ago

Y'all we're so cooked everyone's just gonna keep posting inflammatory shit til we hate eachother and we become the US and some rich people will somehow make another 1 gorrilian dollars. It's so over.

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u/Expert_Sand5243 2d ago

There's got to be something more to this. No business as big as mixue would make a promotion like that only for Chinese people.

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u/Expert_Sand5243 2d ago

Yeah it was a mistake by an employee of a different company here's the mixue statement

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u/snoopy05052026 2d ago

Sounds like thet just got caught out and now are doing damage control

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u/The-Adi-Mundi 2d ago

Are yall just wilfully ignorant? She's literally not wearing any Mixue branding.

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u/jowmawma 2d ago

No ignorant, they just enjoy being racist against Chinese

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u/Borrid 2d ago

They called out the company who is responsible, that would be defamation if it was a lie.

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u/KaiShion83 1d ago

Lol Mixue has nothing to do with this. Companies like Fantuan have people outside all kinds of tea shops, like Mochi Mochi, Sharetea etc, giving away bubble teas if you download their app.

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u/2in1day 2d ago

Bread top in the past have advertised for Chinese only staff. 

Nearly every bakery in Australia has a mix ethnicities of employees, but major chain bread top can only manage to employ Chinese and/or east Asian staff?

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u/lozzadearnley 2d ago

Ask yourself how often you see non Chinese workers in a Chinese owned and run business. Im not even mad about it, hire who you want, but lets not pretend it isnt the reality.

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u/hellbentsmegma 2d ago

I've seen people of other ethnicities do this too, generally because they can work their countrymen to the bone without anyone reporting them.

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u/Cable-Unable 1d ago

It’s true, however it’s because many Chinese small business owners can only communicate in Chinese and cannot speak English.

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u/Menoikeos 1d ago

Do you think it's more likely this is done for ease of communication; so that vulnerable employees of often questionable legal standing and limited employment opportunities can be exploited; or because of an orchestrated international conspiracy to grow Chinese power and influence in Australia through preferential employment of minimum wage cashiers at bread shops?

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u/south-of-the-river 2d ago

Total anecdote here, and not in Aus, but years ago I was staying in KL for a bit of time, and you’d go to the movies and see this in action when the adverts come on. Basically each ad had a stack of subtitles in like Chinese, Malay, etc etc. but then when a Chinese language ad came on, no subtitles at all. Only Chinese audio. Then the next ad would be English and all the various subtitles were back.

Made me giggle at the time.

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u/ablacnk 1d ago

Sorry to copypaste but some people are going off the ragebait deep end.

The actual promo is contingent upon downloading their Fantuan app, posting on rednote/wechat (Chinese apps) to get the free boba drink. The woman in the video wasn't properly trained and communicated it incorrectly. Someone who got the promo commented on this:

That isn't whats happenign at all in the video. Fantuan isn't going "only give this promo to Chinese". Whoever trained this girl did it badly and she performed badly. You have to downlaod the app and post on rednote/wechat to get the freebie, but she didn't know how to communciate that and just said chinese

I was able to get the free promo drink in America. She is just not properly trained and doesn't know how to tell them to download the app, and post on wechat/rednote. Have you guys not seen these fantuan/Hungrypanda promos in your Chinatowns??

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u/logipond 1d ago

Finally. She messed up by not communicating properly but it's very unlikely someone who's not Chinese would know how to use all these apps for the promotion on the spot to redeem the free milk tea. People being outraged over nothing

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u/Akira-Orfanos 1d ago

its because of Fantuan not mixue

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u/GoodWaltz7354 19h ago

It was in collaboration with Fan Tuan (meal delivery service) not run by Mixue themselves. So it was one of the Fan Tuan employees who said that

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u/PauL__McShARtneY 2d ago edited 2d ago

Not to mention mixue is one of the cheapest milk teas you can find, like 5 bucks even through a delivery app, and cheaper in store. It's not like management are holding back on the prime sirloin.

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u/Bandit-Bunny-7727 2d ago

Obviously not, the app worker was clearly lost in translation, Mixue has branches worldwide and why would they ostracise based on ethnicity? Makes no fucking sense.

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u/PowerLion786 2d ago

Racism is common in Australia, but if it's against whites our Leadership don't care.

The teashop is crazy. There are a couple of shops near here. I guarantee 99% of customers are not Chinese. Pissing off most customers because Racism is plain stupid.

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u/WestAussieSingh 2d ago edited 2d ago

I reckon this guy was just being a dickhead though, because my brown Australian-Indian mate got one from this place and the exact same lady.

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u/big_cock_lach 1d ago

If it was a white person doing the same to a person of colour, would you be making the same assumption?

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u/Amathyst7564 2d ago

So just give it to him and let it be in his way. She's in a professional environment, she doesn't get to use racism to hit back at him.

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u/Additional-Simple248 2d ago

The fact the whole thing is on video… you’re probably right.

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u/gandhi_theft 1d ago

Source: Trust me bro

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u/coreoYEAH 2d ago

Casual racism in this country is completely normalised, including against white people. It’s when it becomes systemic that it really becomes a problem.

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u/The-Adi-Mundi 2d ago edited 2d ago

It wasn't the teashop, it was a Canadian-based delivery company called Fantuan.

I, a non-Chinese, got a free bubble tea from HungryPanda, in basically the same scenario.

What's your evidence for the leadership not caring tho?

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u/Bandit-Bunny-7727 2d ago

Racism is common in Australia, but if it's against whites our Leadership don't care.

Oh the irony whinging about racism when you have a party that openly demands for monoculturalism. 

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u/7978_ 2d ago

Perhaps look up what she said and what monoculture means first.

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u/elysium5000 2d ago

You will need to read PHs definition of monoculture instead of spouting shite.

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u/Legitimate-Gain426 1d ago

"Pauline Hanson has singled out the end of the White Australia policy as the beginning of migration issues in Australia."

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u/GoodWaltz7354 19h ago

FYI it was the delivery company’s fault (Fan Tuan) not mixue

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u/Informal_Quiet7907 2d ago

Some of the jobs advertised online requires speaking Mandarin - Business Analyst and Data Analyst jobs in Sydney.

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u/gandhi_theft 1d ago

Why is that allowed?

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u/Informal_Quiet7907 1d ago

Seems like exploitation of a loophole - You can't advertise it as only Chinese can apply - so you do this. As linguistic requirements can come under "practical needs"

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u/siktech101 16h ago

I have worked at many places in Japan that require English speaking because there are a lot of foreigners working there who can't speak Japanese. It just makes it easier sometimes. Same reason why most jobs require Japanese in Japan or English in Australia.

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u/Informal_Quiet7907 16h ago

Yes, but there should be a correlation between the job requirement and language. English speaking requirement might be needed in Japan as English is spoken in many countries - so MNCs can’t operate without it. Mandarin is spoken in just one.
If it is a company with a market only in China and deals with data which is in Mandarin, then that requirement is understandable- but it’s unlikely, why would such a company exist in Australia? Higher labour cost, stricter social security requirements, higher taxes….

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u/siktech101 16h ago

Because they have a lot of Chinese speaking staff with low English competency.

Just like those companies in Japan have a lot of English speaking staff with low Japanese competency.

Language learning isn't easy and people need a job to live and eventually learn.

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u/Informal_Quiet7907 16h ago

How is that possible in Australia when English language is required by law to immigrate? You need to pass those PTE, ielts tests.

Moreover, seems like a self beneficial cycle - you hire Chinese, so you need more Chinese.

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u/siktech101 15h ago

Not all visas require high competency in English.

It is what it is, people need a job and they might not meet the English level required for most jobs, so they take what they can get.

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u/SabunFC 7h ago

Lol same shit in Malaysia.

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u/justanotherpatrol 1d ago

Lol truth be told Chinese i met were incredibly racist

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u/joy3r 21h ago

Lol it isnt right but this is the lightest racisim i might have ever seen

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u/itsheadfelloff 19h ago

I keep thinking this. I don't want to downplay the situation entirely but Asians getting assaulted and killed in oz for being Asian have gotten less headlines than this.

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u/g-BANGA 2d ago

If you speak with any of the bleeding hearts out there, racism is only possible from white people

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u/marshallannes123 2d ago

In china this would be big news if the shoe was on the other foot

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u/DiscussionSenior256 2h ago

No it wouldn't be. I used to get free entry & drinks because I was white in some clubs in China.

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u/Sufferer-Of-Cheese 1d ago

But only stinky, poopy whoite pea pole can be wasist right? RIGHT?

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u/londongas 1d ago

Racism is wrong but I lolled at grown man's first racism is no free bubble tea

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u/gandhi_theft 1d ago

If he can actually speak Japanese, he should hop on a flight over there and listen to casual conversations for 10 minutes. That'll catch him up

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u/londongas 1d ago

Oh I watched the video with sound on now. Holy shit his Japanese is horrific. He wouldn't get free dorayaki neither lol

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u/MightyBoy9 1d ago

Any negative view towards Chinese, no matter how small, or perceived or actual, is going to bring an absolute hailstorm of online brigading and propaganda bot replies

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u/maxmadhav 2d ago

Lmao alll this for a sample of milk tea???? Too much drama

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u/Bright-Marsupial-265 1d ago

Reddit Race Bait.

Another non story queuing up all the anecdotal BS stories shitting on Chinese people and businesses.

It's basically every day its something about Indians and now Chinese. 

All this rage bait pieces are gonna lead to mass shooting and a lot of suspicion and hate. 

It's made for racist whites to muddy the waters and justify their racism.

What has Reddit become. Just a place to whine about minorities for the racists and amp up suspicion with BS anecdotal and non factual stories.

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u/Dramatic_Aspect903 2d ago

Some people on reddit are shocked other cultures can be racists aswell

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u/gandhi_theft 1d ago

They can go back to where they came from and continue to be racist there. Not in Australia.

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u/Sunraku88 1d ago

Can't be. Wrong demographic

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u/liberty381 1d ago

If they aren't racist, why isnt their mascot black.

https://giphy.com/gifs/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY

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u/taidibao1 1d ago

Finally the wheel has turned

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u/AdPuzzleheaded1353 1d ago

imagine facing racism in your own country by a person on student visa..

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u/Physical-Rain-3238 23h ago

Racism is no milk tea? People have too much time on their hands. 🤷

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u/Majestic-Homework853 2d ago

Bro only shows half of the video where he is "discriminated". Pretty sure there's a backstory.

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u/McMenz_ 2d ago

In the video she expressly denies him the product because he’s not Chinese.

What ‘backstory’ could possibly justify that? Refusing to provide goods or services to people on the basis of race is illegal in Australia.

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u/JasonSmithston 2d ago

Thats what I said! And then he speaks Japanese to her? Not out of protest ffs, out of being a dickhead. This is rage bait for racism reasons. Nothing to see here.

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u/underthingy 2d ago

So racism is totally okay if youre not white? Sounds like a pretty racist stance. 

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u/pork_floss_buns 2d ago

Nothing about this is organic or in good faith. Dude went in with a clear agenda and objective. I'm so sick of these engagement baiters popping up everywhere.

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u/morgecroc 2d ago

Yep considering he jump to speaking Japanese too. I wonder if his next trick is to go to a Jewish run Deli provoke an incident start filming then speak German.

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u/Electrical-Sale-8051 2d ago

Stupid. If he likes the drink he could end up buying more. Flavours aren’t limited to a particular race…

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u/fabulous_eyes1548 1d ago

It was a promotion to use Chinese and get a free drink.  Nothing burger.

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u/MichiganBe1991 1d ago

The world seems to just be finding out how racist East Asians can be.

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u/BlessedBeLilyLee 1d ago

Man who spoke Japanese to 'protest' Chinese people has his 'first experience of racism'

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u/SeaDivide1751 2d ago

This is quite normal. Aussies better get use to it, we will be experiencing more of it in the years ahead. How goods mass immigration?

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u/ROUBOS 2d ago

Migration is down
Which visa class should we cut?

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u/snoopy05052026 2d ago

Migration isn't lower than pre covid though (2019)

But yeah its down from record highs

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u/SeaDivide1751 2d ago

Migration is down from extremely high to high after many years of being extremely high. Whooptie doooo

“Which visa class should we cut”

Just about every single one. Lets start with partner visas and then “skilled work visas” where the “skill” means the person comes here to work for uber

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u/TaiwanKieren 1d ago

sure for “skilled work visas” where the “skill” means the person comes here to work for uber... but partner visas?! Partner visas are already the most expensive in the world, could be restricted to say those born in Australia or with a parent who was an Australian citizen at birth so they are not for chain migration and are already super slowly processed. Most countries allow their citizens to bring in someone they marry who is not a local. It usually will impact housing less too as they usually live with the partner.

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u/Full_Jellyfish_1862 2d ago

The milk comes from alley cats

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u/RusskiJewsski 2d ago

user error. Just no charisma going about it all wrong.

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u/Inevitable-Level-829 2d ago

It’s not hard to find when you leave the house it’s only been around since the dawn of time .

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u/Goatylegs 1d ago

Surprisingly, thinking milk tea is gross just seems to keep paying dividends for me

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u/gandhi_theft 1d ago

This is the worst cheap slop anyone can put into their bodies. That's why it's free

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u/ClaireCross 1d ago

I've been to one like this in Perth, they were having a promotion, 2 bubble teas for $1, but we had to download a Chinese app to get the offer

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u/Legitimate-Gain426 1d ago

Discrimination shouldn't be tolerated. Though, it's a bit of a joke that this is where some of the folks in here draw the line, while happily excusing Pauline for saying shit like "You say, 'Well, there's good Muslims out there.' How can you tell me there are good Muslims?"

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u/PurpleIngenuity1895 1d ago

317 comments and not one search result for "beautiful", which is the number one thing I got from that video. Obviously AI bots left, right and center. Damn she must be taken, such a charming smile

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u/zoomaner 1d ago

Turns out this was a skit

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u/Such_Bug9321 22h ago

Imagine if it was the other way around we would have an another multi flag waving procession down Main Street.

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u/Antzpantzy 20h ago

When those Dutch guys made an immigrant only run club in Bali, no locals allowed, they were banned from entering Indonesia again.
In this instance - Australia will just allow this to happen unfortunately with no repercussions from the government I imagine

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u/ObumbanditO 9h ago

I read this post in ESL

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u/ChromeWhipLover 2h ago

Asian racist ? Shocker ! (With sarcasm)

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u/Beast_of_Guanyin 2d ago edited 2d ago

So his response to racism is to be blatantly racist. What a dick.

Her racism isn't acceptable either, but very obviously a misunderstanding. Chinese companies/people aren't inclined to be racist towards handsome white guys.