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  • noun Alternative spelling of Asianization.

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Examples

  • My family and I migrated to Perth, Australia in the 1980s - a period when people were scared of the “Asianisation” of Australia.

    8 things you didn’t know about me — RuthEllison.com 2008

  • There is often a link between racism against other sections of the Australian community and antisemitism, as reports of physical manifestations of antisemitism have increased at times of harassment of Asian Australians after Professor Geoffrey Blainey's claim of the imminent Asianisation of Australia in 1984, when Indigenous organisations and individuals were facing intimidation in 1988 and when the anti-immigration One Nation Party enjoyed short-lived electoral success in the late 1990s There is no evidence to suggest that Australians in general think of Jews in negative terms.

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