Mixed race couples still face racism in AustraliaPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, Oceania on 2016-12-17 19:59Z by Steven |
Mixed race couples still face racism in Australia
news.com.au
Sydney, Australia
2016-12-17
 Ginger, her husband Don, and their daughter Elsa when she was younger.Source: Supplied |
BETWEEN us, my husband and I have got Spanish, Filipino, Chinese, Slovakian, English, Scottish and Irish heritage. In appearance, he’s Asian and I’m caucasian.
This is 2016 and so you wouldn’t even think that was even worth mentioning. But the fact is, reasonably often this affects the way other people treat us.
When we first got together, I just didn’t notice. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say I refused to notice. (Backstory: I spent years at an international school where every second person had mixed-race parents. For me, this was just an everyday occurrence.)
Then one day when our eldest daughter, Elsa, was about 18 months old we took her to the doctor. My husband, Don, was holding Elsa in his arms at the reception counter. In the familiar way of a couple, I was standing to his left and our arms were casually touching.
A lady standing to the right of Don commented on how cute Elsa was and then asked him: “Where’s your wife?”
Don pointed to me and the lady went bright red in the face and started stammering: “Oh, oh.”…
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