Asian-Australian issues

thumb|300x300px|Jean-Léon Gérôme, [[The Snake Charmer, . Clark Art Institute.]] In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle East, was one of the many specialties of 19th-century academic art, and Western literature was influenced by a similar interest in Oriental themes.

250px|thumb|Indian labourers in British Trinidad and Tobago; around 1890s

sentiment against China, its people, overseas Chinese, or Chinese culture

racist color-metaphor that represents East Asian peoples as an 'existential danger' to the West Europe and America

Prejudice against Indian people

view that a group that achieves a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population at large

thumb|A racist postcard by Fred C. Lounsbury, promoting the idea of the Yellow Peril (1907)|alt=An angry caricatured Chinese male face with spiny facial hair and a snake-like tail. Beneath is a five-line poem which begins, "He's a Yellow Peril Chink of surprising versatility."

ethnic group; Australians of Asian ethnicity or ancestry

sexual obsession with Asian people expressed by non-Asians