I think it’s because there’s over a million Chinese in Aus (>1/27th of the population), and they’re also our biggest “trading partner”, so…

China weighs heavy on the Australian psyche. As does Indo, of course.

Whereas, despite us having the largest Japanese prison breakout in WW2 (Cowra), Japanese internment camps don’t feature in our psyche/historical narrative anywhere as much as (in my understanding, at least) they do in the US, say…

Edit: it’s also worth mentioning that many, many Tiananmen survivors and/or Hong Kongers moved here, after 1989, so that 100% plays a role, too. Similar with South Africans post ‘94…

I think it’s because there’s over a million Chinese in Aus (>1/27th of the population), and they’re also our biggest “trading partner”, so…

China weighs heavy on the Australian psyche. As does Indo, of course.

Whereas, despite us having the largest Japanese prison breakout in WW2 (Cowra), Japanese internment camps don’t feature in our psyche/historical narrative anywhere as much as (in my understanding, at least) they do in the US, say…