“I was born here, you’re not”: Woman caught on video hurling racist abuse
A woman has been caught on video hurling racist abuse at an Asian family at a Perth shopping centre.
The mother-of-two filmed the white woman’s abuse against her, her husband and their two children at Westfield Carousel Shopping Centre on Friday.
“I was born here, you’re not,” the woman could be seen yelling in the video. “And all you do is breed these things, rats.”
In a Facebook post, the mother said she was waiting for her husband outside a Woolworths store when the woman yelled at two security guards.
“This woman suddenly had a go at an African security guard really just out of the blue, then quickly she turned her fire to a Middle East looking security guard, asking him to ‘get out of this country, you don’t belong here’,” the mother wrote.
When the mother intervened, the woman turned to yell at her family.
“She then starts yelling at us, ‘you bloody Asians shouldn’t be here either, you get out of this country’.
“She points at our boys, she says ‘you guys shouldn’t breed these little rats here’. Our big boy was totally shocked and terrified.”
A number of Woolworths staff who saw the abuse helped escort the family to their car and offered to be witnesses should they want to report it to the police, she said.
“We work hard and we pay tax, we serve in community service and we are kind to anyone we meet (regardless of their race). Australia is a beautiful country and we love the people here,” she wrote.
“Shouldn’t we love one another and live in harmony?”
The video has received hundreds of comments from Australians condemning the woman’s racist abuse and expressing sympathy towards the family.
“What a shame! So sorry you and your children had such a negative encounter. I am hoping the majority of Aussies don’t approve of such disrespect,” one wrote.
“We don’t know each other but I just want to say how very sorry I am that this dreadful woman said such things to you and in front of you children. That is as un-Australian as it comes,” another added.
“Your children ain’t rats they are a blessing! And I say welcome to my country we have a beautiful country for all to see!” one commented.
“So sorry you had to endure such treatment. We are not all like her thankfully. Australia is multicultural and loved by those more than just those born here,” one wrote.