Like its Chinese translation of "Venas Bay," Venus bay, is a quiet town in eastern Melbourne with beautiful scenery and quiet beaches.
However, the number of anti-Chinese discrimination cases in this small town has soared recently!
Some Chinese came here for a tour, and their unexplained tires were punctured.
Some Chinese came back to buy something and found that their car had been drawn into a florid face.
There are also Chinese walking, suddenly be inexplicably insulted pushed, let them go back!
Even other Asian-Americans, who look like Chinese, lay down innocent guns!
What exactly is the reason?
It turns out that in recent years, the number of Chinese tourists is fast increasing here`s specialty Pipi (Corbicula) dug out of the species!
(ABC), the Australian broadcaster, recently produced a special program covering the phenomenon
Pipi, famous Chinese literature clams
In the eyes of the local people, Pipi is just a kind of shellfish that is widely distributed all over the world, and it is a common bait in daily life.
However, in the eyes of the Chinese people, Pipi is fresh and sweet, widely distributed, and can dig up a lot of food for free.
Pipi is a hot-fried clam.
Pipi is a roasted clam with soy pepper.
Pipi is a Portuguese lemon clam.
And Venas Bay environment conditions are good, sandy rich in nutrition, there are a large number of clams grow, so in recent years more and more Chinese people come here to dig for clams!
At first, the locals didn`t like it-"aren`t they just tourists?"
However, they gradually realized something was wrong.
First of all, these Chinese tourists tend to bring their own water and don`t consume it in small towns. That is to say, although many Chinese tourists come here every year, the town itself does not get any benefits.
Second, the town, with its 20-kilometer-long beach, has only 500 residents and does not have the service facilities to carry huge numbers of Chinese tourists.
Whenever Chinese tourists cross the border, the beach is full of people and buckets.
And they always leave behind a lot of trash, the town is simply overburdened.
Chinese tourists also occupied public bathrooms, beach parking spaces, residents themselves do not know what to do.
And, every holiday, the beach was crowded with tourists, and the residents were frustrated-they had lived here for a long time, used to the silence here, and put it in their back garden on the spot. But don`t you feel offended when a large group of people don`t invite themselves to your back garden and keep digging?
A video released on YouTube by a resident of Venas Bay shows that during the holiday, the path to the Bay is full of Chinese! And the cars they parked on the side of the road!
As local residents, they have no way to go to their own backyard.
There is a long line outside the only public toilet on the beach!
And the beach is full of people! It`s tight! The local people feel extremely unfit!
Finally, the Chinese tourists are really too able to dig! They often carry shovels, hidden deep in the beach Pipi can be dug out, and a lot of digging at a time!
A video posted on Youtube by the same residents of Venas Bay shows an Asian-American looking like a Chinese using a shovel to dig Pipi!
Although Melbourne`s state of Victoria has a cap on the number of Pipi captured (5 liters), it is common for Chinese tourists to overcatch them.
So although goverment has set a separate 2-litre fishing limit for the Bay of Venas and can`t use tools to dig, the number of Pipi has declined dramatically in recent years!
To what extent? The residents who come fishing can`t catch Pipi as bait!
According to ABC, despite the local residents` grievances, it seems that clam diggers don`t seem to care.
On a Sunday in March, it was dark, but an unhindered group of young Chinese tourists dug clams. For the first time, they visited the famous place in Venas Bay and cheered for digging the first clam on Beach one.
(photo source: ABC)
On the other side of the beach, however, two fishermen who dug bait blamed the Chinese tourists. "nothing, no big clams at all," the two explained, saying they were digging clams at beach one three years later.
"it`s usually crowded with Asians. The last time I came here was Christmas, and there were about 3000 tourists on the beach. From the parking lot and the shops, they can be seen everywhere and the whole beach is full of people. "
Lisa Hatfield, an anthropological doctoral student at Latrobe University, studied the impact of the Venas Bay clam tide for three years, suggesting that the current phenomenon in Venus Bay is related to Australia`s attitude towards multiculturalism and identity.
"the locals were dissatisfied that there was only one purpose to dig for clams, and they organized a group to dig up commercial quantities of clams. Residents feel that intemperance is the culture of the Chinese people and there are complaints that they do not contribute to the local economy at all. " On observation, she found that "this is very common".
"the local perception is that Australia has a deep-rooted impression of Asians," she said. However, Hatfield said local concerns about the clam tide are reasonable.
"they find it difficult to adapt to the changes in the Bay of Venas, worry about losing a sense of belonging, and feel they are being ignored," he said.
(the toilet wall says "the thief who stole Pipi gets out of the way")
In an online petition, residents of Venas Bay said so.
1. Vinas Bay is one of the most fire-prone areas and one of the most dangerous beaches in the state. However, a large number of tourists and parking have seriously affected the passage of emergency relief.
2. The people who came to catch Pipi stopped here all day, and the locals couldn`t get close to the beach.
3. The overcapture of Pipi led to a serious decrease in the number of Pipi. The people who caught Pipi, regardless of size, took them away, leading to a serious reduction in the food of fish and birds.
4. The beach was badly dug up, posing a serious risk to the beach rescue team
5. The tourists brought a lot of rubbish
6. The infrastructure in Winas Bay is simply unable to carry a large number of tourists.
In fact, this is not the first time something similar has happened in Australia. A year ago, a large number of Chinese tourists poured into Lake Tyrrell, a small town in northern Victoria, to enjoy the famous salt lakes and stars.
Local residents were initially ungrateful and complained that Chinese tourists had brought a lot of rubbish.
But the perception of the locals quickly changed as the continued influx of gamblers brought money into the moribund town.
Six months later, the title of the local media also became "Chinese tourists bring a new lifeline to the small town on the verge of bankruptcy."
Everyone who has been to Venus Bay to catch PPI knows that there are a large number of Chinese on holidays and holidays, cars are everywhere, it is difficult to get through.
Everyone who has been to Venus Bay to catch PIPI knows that although goverment explicitly forbids overfishing, there are always Chinese who catch more than that.
Everyone who has been to Venus Bay to catch PIPI knows that although goverment explicitly forbids the use of shovels to catch PIPI, there are always Chinese who carry shovels with them, or dig PIPI in a low-key or public manner.
But, everybody, do you know that the local people have become abominably disgusted with this?
As the world`s only "Western country" near Asia, there has been a constant fear of Asian descent in the sparsely populated Australia-"more Asian Americans than we are, disrespectful of our way of life, uncontrolled," Sooner or later, we`ll be flooded.
And if this mood is not controlled, it will go to the far-right exclusion of the road of non-return.
The best way is to respect local order customs, make rational use of resources, and share the benefits with the locals.
Of course, the responsibility of the local goverment is also important. They have an obligation to re-develop local infrastructure. So many tourists, make full use of the words can let the local people fully enjoy the economic benefits, achieve win-win results.
