A young Indian-Australian woman from Sydney had to face racist remarks on her facebook last week, The Daily Mail reported.
Roshni Dennis’s parents migrated to Australia from India in the 1970s and Roshni was born in Sydney.
However, Ms Dennis was attacked on her Facebook post where a troll commented that she was ‘not an Australian.’
The racist comment reads: ‘Roshni, no offence but just because you were born here doesn’t make you an Australian with a Middle Eastern name, cultural indifference, diet and physical representation (you don’t look European).
‘Sorry for the reality check but your loyalty also sways to your heritage not the Australians you grew up with.’
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Ms Dennis later mentioned on Facebook that she cried after reading the horrible comment.
‘I weep for all the people out there being told, for the first time, that they are not an Australian.’
The racist comment goes on to read: ‘Australians include the first Australians… the indigenous and us, the ones who have generations of Australian blood, history, tradition and sacrifice.
‘Hijabs, burqas, Koran, mosques, speaking Arabic… don’t count.’
But Ms Dennis had an apt reply for the racist troller.
She wrote: ‘How about you show everyone how Australian you are by getting to know a person’s story, starting with me.
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‘Because after all isn’t being a true Australian about giving everyone a fair go?’
The Daily Mail wrote Ms Dennis shared on Facebook that after migrating from India her father worked at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney.
‘At any given time my parents would work two to three jobs.’
‘They never put themselves first and always do their part in their own may to make this country great.’
She said her parents had held countless multicultural and multi-faith community charity fundraisers in Sydney.
‘In my Australia stories like my Australian parents' are actually not uncommon and despite our beautiful differences in names, beliefs, looks, diet, languages and culture we have no fear or judgement in our hearts.’
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‘I still forgive you. And I'll still welcome you with open arms to my Australia,’ she wrote.
So far there’s been no response from the troll.
Source: Daily Mail
