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I hope these are some separate incidents but very sad & shocking indeed.
There was a time we heard & used to know that racism is quite alarming in Australia...BUT after some of my very good friends (& also even my boss...the Managing Director of the company where I work) when moved there for higher education & better life then we get started to hear different sides of the matter. They were & still are very much satisfied & honored with their lives in Australia and whenever (very rarely) we talked on this issue they said things aren't that much bad to get worried about; any South Asian student or people from 3rd world countries more or less tastes or have same kinda experience whenever he/she go into any developed foreign country to get 'better education' from them and later on doing a decent job with them by holding a same position or honor. According to them to some extent facing any kinda racial threats are normal out there and sometimes specially at the early days of your life in a developed White foreign country you have to prepare or alert to confront this kinda sad, frustrating & disturbing moments. BUT it'll be very much foolish thing to judge them all or the people of a country with this type of separate unexpected sad incidents which of course not happened on a regular basis.
I'm not sure at all but the things now might get bit out of order in some places for the Indians as followed by the news.
Anyways, there is a funny incident that I like to share with you that happened to a roommate (who is also a Bangladeshi student then) of a friend of mine once in Melbourne. After some months in there one night the guy stalked by some black kids on an alley and somehow managed to ran from them and later ask for help to some lodgers in a house while he was trying to get a safe shelter out there. The lodgers were all Indian students and they ask him whether he is also an Indian or not. For the sake of his safety & protection (as those stalkers were coming right behind him) he answered them "Yes! I'm Indian...help me..they are coming to get me or blah! blah!!" And just after an instant they all get united and stood against those stalkers in front of the house but those stalkers then left the premise as they were then out numbered against those group of students from India.:)
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