I stumbled upon this post, written by an Indonesian woman who lived in Singapore previously and now currently lives in Australia. I didn’t know the writer personally (although I might have seen her in one of gathering events I attended couple of years back) but to be frank, I’m quite interested on what she has written. Especially this one:

The third reason is because I can feel equal living in its real multicultural society. Singapore may claims that it is a multicultural country with its Chinese, Indian and Malay society live in harmony. Australia does not need to claim it because you can see and feel it whenever you go. If I go to Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and other restaurants; most probably the chef and/owner are from the country where the food originally come from. I can easily see people who were originally from France, Italy, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, South Africa, America, South America and many other countries here. These people who were originally from other countries, including the second generation, work in various field of work.

I’ve been to Australia (and recently New Zealand) before, and I would have to agree with her. I find Australia to be a very nice place to stay, with friendly people. So far, I find that the infamous rumour saying that Australians are a bit “racist” to other races, especially Asians, is not true, after all. Well, there might be some who are, but it doesn’t mean that we have to generalise that everyone there is.