Recently, some netizens called themselves "old immigrants from Australia", answering questions on the Chinese question-and-answer platform "Zhihu": "what's the trouble of living in Australia or New Zealand?"
Almost all of them complain about life in Australia and call for a safe life away from the Chinese community. Let's take a look at his answer.
Two words: Chinese (generally speaking, foreign students and immigrants from China),
To illustrate the existence of these problems with a few examples of life.
In fact, this issue is very tangled. After all, as a Chinese immigrant, there may not be many qualifications to comment on other people.
Moreover, in fact, I usually lead a leisurely life, and even if I see the strange behavior of many local Chinese people, I will not pay special attention to it. It can be regarded as a joke after lunch.
However, for some students or immigrants who wish to know Australia, or who are about to come to Australia,
My sincere exhortation as an old immigrant: don't rely too much on the Chinese circle and keep it safe from the Chinese circle.
1. Chinese bosses, Chinese landlords, and second landlords have all kinds of poaching effects on overseas students.
People who live in Australia, especially in Melbourne and Sydney, must have been harassed by Chinese bosses, Chinese landlords, and second landlords. I have experienced a lot and heard a lot about it.
The Chinese boss gives the minimum wage and harms the rights and interests of overseas students. Australian Chinese small bosses have the most, have bought a house in China, moved to their homes, saved some money when they were young, and got their status in the early years when it was easy to rely on immigration policy. Open a small restaurant in Australia, tabloids, beverage shops are basically everywhere. However, these small bosses can save things, the wages of employees are of course surprisingly low, and the collection of money does not accept the payment of cards, tax evasion through a variety of ways is very common.
Example one,
Ten years or so ago, when I was still in college, there was a female classmate A from Guangdong who had just arrived in Australia for two years. My English level was normal, so I went to a Hong Kong-style morning tea shop to work, usually working on Saturdays and Sundays. It's a part-time job making pocket money. At that time, a group of students gathered to talk about their working life experience and so on, and then the topic shifted to the issue of "wages". Remember that the minimum wage was about $15 an hour.
As a result, after sharing her salary, almost everyone suspected that there was something wrong with her ear. Classmate A said she was getting four bucks an hour, and she was paying attention to four knives. According to the minimum wage of 15 hours at that time, less than a fraction of $4.
After the discussion went on, it was even more surprising that classmate A said that the restaurant owner and her had asked for all the information, including a tax number, a copy of a visa and a passport, and so on.
There is no need to say more about how many small Chinese bosses in Australia use their newspapers to evade taxes in cash, but there are no small numbers of foreign students who are harassed by Chinese bosses like A, the female schoolmate.
Example two,
Also almost ten years ago, I personally experienced being cheated by the Chinese. At that time, I was not working to make money, but I did not return to China during the Christmas holiday. At that time, a classmate of Chinese students introduced to me that the place where he worked was short of people during this period of time, if I wanted to go. You can start work in 2 days, and it's easy to work or something.
Anyway, I felt that there was nothing to do at that time, so I went with my classmates. The job of a warehouse, every day is in the warehouse to organize the inventory boxes, put the same kind of together, and then enter the serial number in the computer to do a statistical document. It's really easy.
But the manager was a Chinese, and when he first went there, he was laughing, talking and laughing, and he felt like he was going to be a relative, and drove us home after the end of the day.
Almost 60% to 70% of jobs in Australia are paid weekly, that is, once a week. Some of the remaining 30% / 40% of companies and government work is paid fortnightly, or at most once a month.
At that time, the Chinese boss told us that at the end of our Christmas holiday, wages were paid uniformly, because there were special regulations in their company, so they were settled according to the total amount and so on. There were a lot of reasons to convince us anyway.
After the last few days of the holiday, soon to start school, I and another classmate said that after the start of school will not continue to do, so the same day decided to make it to the end of the situation with the boss, and let him pay for the settlement.
As a result, the boss was very unusual that night not to come to the visiting class, perhaps very busy?
After another day, not coming, the boss answered and said, "Oh, don't worry about the salary. My side is also waiting for the head office to settle the money for me. I will pay you two in two days."
Maybe busy?
After a few days, we did not come, a little abnormal, we tried to call him, text messages, respectively, several times, the phone can not be reached.
So, after school started, I went to the warehouse with my classmates at the weekend in a few days, and saw that the warehouse was closed, and I put up a sign outside to sell it.
Each of us should be paid at least $3000 or so, and that's it.
Example three,
Hear about other people's renting experience, about the Chinese landlords of foreign students hoodwink. He was also a classmate at that time, after the university went to work in Xinzhou, rented a house near the company, because he did not have a lot of rental procedures, so instead of looking for a formal intermediary, but looking for a Chinese website on the house.
At first, when we looked at the house, everything was very good. The landlord had a very good attitude. Before renting a house, the landlord bullied foreign students who had just graduated from school and did not understand the law, so he said to his classmates: "there is no need to sign a contract for private rental of a house. We are all Chinese." Take care of each other abroad, I will not cheat you, don't worry. "
The classmate was not suspicious of him, and after two weeks of deposit (bond), he checked in.
Immediately after that, they checked in. After check-in, the landlord sends water bills every once in a while (students at that time didn't know the Australian laws at all, etc.). In fact, in Sydney, the landlord had to pack water when renting a house, unless it was in excess of the normal amount of water. Otherwise, the landlord is not allowed to ask the tenant for water charges), but because the students do not understand the law, the result is paid for several months of water fees, eat a loss.
Then after staying for three months, the landlord asked for a rent increase and called his classmates and said, "the rules on the Australian side are like this, and in the next few months there will be a rent increase based on market prices." "(in fact, rent increases will not exist until after the expiry of the lease contract and if both parties intend to renew the contract after negotiation. The rent increase during the rental period does not exist at all.)
As a result, after living for three months, the classmate was cheated by the landlord and then paid a lot more rent.
After living for almost six months, the landlord suddenly told him to move away within three days and said that he was in a hurry to sell the house.
Well, if you can't help it, you'll have to move out. Two days later, the furniture is moved out, the luggage is packed, the landlord comes to see if the house is damaged, and then he looks all round and doesn't see anything. Finally, a path was found on the surface of the kitchen cabinet (barely visible scratches on the side) and immediately said, "this must be compensated, and the deposit will not be returned to you. Move out tomorrow."
But the students can only temporarily move to other places after 6 months of cheating.
Example four,
Almost five, six years ago, it was about the beginning of staying in campus upheaval, and it was quite normal before I felt like it. Occasionally, I saw a few Chinese students, but five, six years ago, Chinese students were basically the concept of "influx into Australia."
The sudden influx of foreign students has also enabled many unscrupulous Chinese second landlords to find business opportunities.
A friend's relative's child came to Australia to study and asked his friend to take care of it. As a result, when he had a dinner with this friend, his friend described to me how miserable it was for his relative's child to rent a house in Australia.
When he first came, his friend helped the child find a nice house, and it felt good to see the house in person. The result may be a child rebellious, after one year, two months later said that he did not want to live, ended up in private to find a house to move in, but did not tell my friend.
As a result, a residence was found in downtown Melbourne, and its old three-story building, the first floor is the entrance, the second floor is a Chinese foot massage, and the third floor is about 200 square meters of space. Separated by very thin planks into 10 separate rooms, there is also a common bathroom toilet. (this kind of house itself is actually inside the concept of illegal buildings.)
Ten separate rooms have been very small, resulting in more than one person in each room, some rooms crammed with five or six people in narrow spaces.
The one who manages the rental of the house in it is a foreign student. After a school girl, and the landlord have contracted the top floor, they sublet themselves. This kind of international student's own take house has actually been sublet at a higher price, in fact, there are a lot of students who rent it out at a higher price. Many foreign students can make a lot of money by being the two landlords alone. Many Chinese students renting houses in Australia may be crammed into a small apartment with more than a dozen people, sleeping in the living room, and sleeping in the basement garage.
It can be said that many Chinese landlords and second landlords bully foreign students who do not understand the local housing prices and laws, deliberately rent some illegal construction houses and extremely poor environment for foreign students to poke money.
2. The Chinese do business of cheating, agents of all kinds, and black shops of all kinds not only trap the Chinese, but also kill all of them.
Many Chinese real estate agents, traditional Chinese medicine, restaurants and so on are almost black shop concept, but also very proud, very scary. And purchasing agents simply destroy the image of all Chinese.
Example one,
A local white Australian friend, who was not very comfortable for a while, went to see the results of the GP test and was introduced to see a Chinese medicine doctor.
Knowing that I was from China, he kept telling me to go with him next time he reviewed it.
I would like to say also quite curious about the Australian side of the Chinese medicine is like, and he went with him.
There, in a small two-story house next to the highway, there is a big "Chinese massage" (Chinese traditional medicine in Australia is the concept of herbal, but in fact, Chinese medicine is a small house with a two-story floor next to the highway.
Medicine needs to apply for a license. Many Chinese medicine practitioners in Australia say privately that Chinese medicine can treat cancer, but in fact, if they claim to be a regular medical clinic, they need to be vetted, so in order to avoid being detected, Many Chinese traditional Chinese medicine clinics will be registered as "massage", so this shop on the counter is only a "massage shop", but in fact, it treats cancer patients in private, and so on.
After entering the black, went straight inside to the innermost small room, open the door is the inside of the clinic, very hidden.
As soon as we open the door, a Chinese aunt in her fifties is the so-called "attending doctor," and a girl in her twenties next to her is the "nurse." she took my white friend into the black room inside and said that she was going to have a cupping of acupuncture and moxibustion.
Then I sat outside, and the aunt came out of the room and poured me a glass of water.
Then I spoke Chinese to her and asked her about the situation. As a result, my aunt asked, "I told you, ah, we Chinese medicine is broad and profound. My clients are almost all devils from Australia, and several terminal cancers are dying." As a result, I did a few courses of treatment, our Chinese medicine is proved by high-tech R & D personnel beyond Western medicine. I graduated from Chinese Herbal Medicine at xxx University in the United States. Look at me. There are certificates on my wall. "
I looked up and there was a very unusual certificate.
I've been listening to aunt's nonsense, and I haven't said much, just, uh-huh-ah-oh-oh. After a while my friend finished acupuncture, came out to go, aunt gave my friend a package of elixir, said that tens of thousands of people in China are eating, anti-cancer and so on, anyway blowing the sky.
Results after we went out, he and I took a medicine, unpackaged, just a small medicine bag, the green capsule felt self-made at home, smell a smell of pepper is the taste of big material.
Example two,
Chinese food restaurant after the dirty kitchen to death, let me eat food poisoning.
When I was on a business trip in Sydney, when I heard that there was a famous Shanghai dish in Ashfield, I wanted to say I'd give it a try.
As a result, he almost died of poison after eating the meal, went home at night for a year, immediately vomited and diarrhoea two hours later, couldn't go to work the next day, and went to the doctor for nearly a week's rest.
I didn't want to say there was something wrong with Shanghai food. I thought I was infected with some virus or something.
As a result, a few months later, when I was browsing the news online, I saw a piece that said that the xx restaurant in Sydney had been photographed with rats in the kitchen, and it was xx Shanghai food when it was ordered in.
As a result, a group of people left a message, several of them said they had worked in that shop before, and the kitchen was disgusting and so on.
Terrible.
Example three,
The Chinese buying agents are very poignant.
When I wanted to buy a house a few years ago, I looked at the source of the house on the Internet and contacted several agents, including Chinese intermediaries (after all, Chinese intermediaries in Australia are flourishing everywhere, and it is a little difficult to think about not getting in touch with them).
Then after going to a few houses, he went to one of the Chinese agents.
As soon as we got in, it was a wild blow: "Sir, I told you, how low prices are in this newly developed area, ah, the down payment is only 10%, ah (ha), our agency provides various services, ah, When it's finished, we can rent it out for you, and there's a lot of room for appreciation after that. "
The Australian Chinese real estate market, basically more than half can use four words to sum up "moisture, fooling"
Almost all recommended are off plan's house, ghost can not see a, all kinds of Chinese real estate development cases, basically all the customers are domestic to buy real estate investment, very few of their own.
And the kind of sneaking and cutting of construction in many Chinese real estate buildings really makes people want to cry.
Before by Australian local news exposure, Chinese builders use substandard low-quality building materials, and so on.
I went to see the houses of several Chinese builders, basically the same routine, open the door and go in to look good, the quality of things that can be seen outside the line of sight is OK. But pay a little attention to the details, exhorting people who buy houses in Australia, if they are Chinese builders or construction companies, they really need to be careful.
Case four,
Purchasing Agency,
When it comes to purchasing agents, there is a lot of controversy. I just want to tell a lot of people who don't understand this question why there is a problem with purchasing agents.
First of all, most Chinese-registered purchasing agents and trading companies have a great deal of moisture, the source of goods is very chaotic, and irregular, basically with the domestic WeChat business is a concept, you and these people to buy things in fact there is no protection.
Secondly, a lot of people will ask, all is for the child to eat, why not let buy ah?
This is the point of view. From the point of view of purchasing, we should first consider that Australia is a country with a population of only 20 million, that is, the population of Australia as a whole is only that of Shanghai. Under this concept, local food and pharmaceutical companies in Australia use the volume of domestic market demand as the shipping standard when making goods.
On this premise, the influx of Chinese purchasing agents is not from regular manufacturers to obtain these sources, but a group of Chinese to supermarket pharmacies to "grab milk powder" and health products.
This is another concept. If we say that Chinese purchasing agents are working with manufacturers to produce large quantities of milk powder, on the basis of ensuring the local market in Australia, there is also a sufficient supply of goods to purchasing agents. In this case, we can all buy milk powder. Why not?
The truth is, the vast majority of daigou purchases come from supermarkets and pharmacies where ordinary people shop, and the dealers themselves take into account issues such as sales and inventory when buying. For example, with a population of 10, 000 people in a region, about 2000 of whom are newborn, the supermarket's monthly intake of milk powder is based on the 2000 newborns as its primary customer base. Therefore, a large number of Chinese rush to buy milk powder, will cause problems for the local people. There has been news that a mother in Australia ran to nine supermarkets can not buy milk powder, because they were robbed by Chinese purchasing agents.
So to solve this problem, Australia's mainstream supermarkets have a clear rule, each guest to buy 2 cans of milk powder.
As a result, the rule was criticized [racially discriminatory] by many Chinese.
Regardless of the Australian milk powder market, I would like to ask: if one day Australians go crazy to buy Chinese rice and wipe out all the Chinese rice, as a result, Chinese locals can't buy rice at supermarkets because they have been robbed by Australians. What do you think?
3. The self-confidence, arrogance and conceit of the Chinese enigma, do not regard others in their eyes, have a poor attitude, and have no sense of self-knowledge.
Many Chinese will have a superior "fan confidence", also do not know where to come from, anyway, for other countries of the culture is not like, look down on, then why do you want to go abroad?
Also go to Chinese food restaurant waiters must die face, service attitude can not be a little closer.
It must be someone else's problem. If you say a word about him, he will immediately say, "what is wrong with the white man, why should he say me?" it is impolite to judge others in Chinese in public.
Example one,
When I first came to Australia, I met a Chinese international student at the language school.
Every day during the lunch break, I began to gather together with all other Chinese students, scolding Australia in all kinds of ways.
"what a haunted place is Australia? it's not as good as a 28-line mountain area in China."
"Western food is so bad, Japanese food is so bad, it's not as good as the bowl at my stall, Spicy Hot Pot. Well, it's like returning home. "
"is there something wrong with that SB teacher, is there something wrong with that SB classmate, is there something wrong with the ghost guy?"
Basically every time I met this guy, he kept saying how bad Australia was, but I heard that he got a permanent residence and wanted to pick up both his parents.
I just want to ask, why do you look down on Australia and try your best to stay here?
Example two,
Chinese students especially like to hold groups.
To what extent,
I know a Chinese, from studying abroad to working in Australia, and now I do business myself.
I've been here for almost a decade,
But what is his English level? It's basically A P P L E, I'm fine and you?. At this level,
Why?
From studying abroad, I don't listen to classes every day, I only chat with the Chinese on a lunch break, and after class I go to a Chinese restaurant to do the dishes (don't need to speak English), eat only Chinese food (always order in Chinese), go out and play only to chinatown (eat, drink and have fun all the time). All shops can speak Chinese directly.
In his life, apart from being forced to listen to English at school,
The other 90% of the time is almost full of Chinese,
There are so many such people in Australia that I have met more than a few myself.
But when you ask them why they don't, they say, "it's too hard to learn."
Excuse me why other people can learn hard, just you can not learn?
Example three,
Many Chinese people in Australia have no better attitude than those in China.
In Australia, it can be said that there are restaurants all over the world, so no matter whether they are local white, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese service staff, it is clear that even if something goes wrong at home, they are in a bad mood, and at least they can give you a fake smile when they receive them. However,
[attitude of Chinese service personnel, extremely poor]
To what extent,
Went to the restaurant to order, the waiter came, the menu fell directly on the table, and the man left,
Call someone to order, a girl in her twenties has come, her eyes have been staring straight ahead, her eyes are stagnant, you tell her to ask for a xxx, and she has no response to write down xxx, unless she does not hear clearly, she will ask you in particular once, Or basically she thinks you don't exist,
After ordering dishes and waiting for half a day, they will not be introduced when they come, and as soon as they are released, they will leave.
After eating, I went to the front desk to pay the bill, and when I was looking for the change, I fell directly on the counter,
Many times with white friends or friends from other countries to eat Chinese food, other people asked me: "Why is the service staff in Chinese restaurants always in such a bad mood?" So rude? "
(not all Chinese restaurants are like this. I'm just pointing out some of the individual examples I've encountered.)
Example four,
Just a few days ago, I took a bus to participate in the event. As a result, when bus passed a stop, he stopped, and the inside people got out of the car and got blocked up at the door.
At the door, two Chinese aunts each brought a baby cart and stood in front of the bus exit.
On the Australian side, the most basic rule is to stand on both sides of the bus when entering and leaving, let people get out of the car first and then get on the bus, and there are also escalators standing on the left side uniformly, so that people in a hurry can walk quickly from the right side, and so on.
These are very basic rules that almost everyone will consciously do,
However, every time at the station, the light rail, and the bus, there will always be a few uncles from China crowded in front of the car door to prevent others from getting off the bus properly, which really makes people fall apart.
As a result, after a long time, the two moms pushing the stroller finally got on the cart,
After getting on the bus, the two people sat in the stroller seat in front of me, and then began to talk in Chinese, "very loud",
It is basically a volume that can be heard from the front to the rear of the car, and almost everyone else is sliding a mobile phone, and there is a person in the back seat who is talking on the phone, but it is also whispered in the headphones.
Aunt A: "Oh, your child is a hybrid."
Aunt B: yes, my daughter married a ghost.
Aunt A: "really? How old are you? Do you have a house? What are the terms? "
Aunt B: "Oh, I'm in my fifties. I got divorced once before. I have a house, but the loan hasn't been paid off yet." But it doesn't matter. It's mainly about identity, and it's easy to say when you get it. "
Aunt A: "that's the most valuable identity. I'll tell you what. However, my son must not marry the ghost here, my son and his college classmates here to marry, Shanghai, the family conditions are also good, the parents to buy some money here to buy a house. "
Aunt B: well, that's good. I'd like to say let my daughter marry a younger one, but it's nice to have a status like that now.
Aunt A: "I can't stand a lot of things here. I'm so far from us that I can't live with each other."
Aunt B: that's right. People here really don't give betrothal gifts or anything when they get married. My daughter, this marriage, doesn't mean anything at all in the man's family.
Aunt A: "Yes, there's no rule here. It's not like us." And the old man and the old lady here are not helping to take care of the children. They are really cold-blooded. "
Aunt B: "I also think this person is very cold-blooded, not even a feeling of affection, parents and children like friends, marriage or something to send a gift on the end, which is like our domestic."
I can only smile with honey all the way, hehe
Some people might say, "I still see white people running red lights, I also see garbage on the streets of Japan, and I also see French aunts jump in the queue. Why should I only say China?"
Now that many Chinese people have seen the "suspected smear on the Chinese people", they immediately explained all the problems with national sentiment:
"Oh, is it discrimination against the Chinese, if China is the world's largest power, they dare to discriminate?"
"well, some people just can't stand up for too long on their knees. China is now catching up with the United States. Australia, a country where birds don't take a shit, we don't like it. Throwing a rubbish anywhere in Australia is a gift to Australia."
"well, I've seen the white people jump in the queue and yell," he said. "what's the reason to say what about the Chinese?"
"it's just the older generation who don't have the qualities. Don't worry about it when they're old, and just wait until the older generation is dead."
What about other people is not your reason for lack of quality, and do not always use a few examples to find psychological comfort for yourself, the problem is that there is, has been leveraged completely pointless.