There is an ignorant right-wing politician in Australia (yes, all right-wingers are ignorant), who claimed that there was racism in Australia, reverse racism. That politician is worse than a stopped clock, at least it shows the right time twice a day.
I remember a supporter of that right-wing politician claiming, and how the heck they can justify supporting this ignorant politician when they have an Asian wife and two Eurasian kids, claiming that they spent four years in Japan. (The wife is NOT Japanese, I will add). What this ignorant, and quite rude supporter of this stupid politician forgets is, yes, in Japan, the dominant ethnicity is Asian, and it's very difficult for non-Japanese to become Japanese citizens. If you are a short-term visitor to Japan, you are typically treated well, but treated as a novelty, however, the longer you live in Japan, you are still viewed as a foreigner.
When I was at the Narita Airport, I asked a Japanese woman if she was going to Australia (in Japanese) and she looked to the Japanese person beside her and replied, "Yes." That Japanese person said, "I didn't speak to you, the gaijin (foreigner) on the other side did." Okay, I didn't mind being referred to as a gaijin even if it is slightly derogatory in Japanese.
A foreigner can learn to speak Japanese and learn Japanese customs, but not be as easily accepted as a Japanese. I remember reading John Hersey's Hiroshima, and Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge (aka Makoto Takakura) said that some Japanese were surprised, when being told, "Father Takakura will be coming to see you," to find a tall gaijin there. So, despite his Japanese name, he wasn't thought of as a white Japanese.
In Australia, the same principle applies with some. A person will be told, "John Smith will be coming to see you," and they are taken aback to find that John Smith is a First Nations Person. I remember reading a story of a First Nations young woman who wrote to a boy in Germany. He found that they had the same surname, and this guy, when he finished high school, was told by his parents, "If you pass all your subjects, we'll buy you a car, or you can have something else." He chose a holiday to Australia, and as the girl's surname was Schultz, he expected to meet a tall, blonde-haired, blue eyed girl, but the disappointment was written on his face when he instead saw a First Nations Woman standing there holding a placard with his name on it.
Part of the reason why some First Nations Australians have European surnames is due to the Stolen Generation and them being adopted by European parents.
What this politician claimed was reverse racism was not. And this politician was wrong on two grounds.
Okay, I have an Asian doctor and my brother asked me if I would go to an Australian doctor and I said, "That's an open-ended question." My mother asked me why. I said, "Well, if you mean, would I swap a doctor I'm happy with and get along with for another one because they were Australian, the answer is no. If you mean, my doctor wanted to refer me to a specialist and she wanted me to see a doctor who was not Asian, would I ask her to send me to someone Asian, instead, the answer is, I have enough faith in my doctor's judgement to not ask that. If you mean, however, I turned up at my local hospital and needed emergency surgery and the only doctor available was not Asian, would I say, "No, I'll have an Asian, thanks," again, the answer is no. IF, however, my mother rang her doctor, who is not Asian, and asked him, without my consent, to come and see me, no matter what circumstances I was in, would I tell him to get lost, the answer is, Yes, I would tell him to get lost, and refuse to see him." (I didn't have a doctor I liked until I was 23. I didn't like my parents' doctor when I was younger and when I was legally old enough, I changed. If you note that I said, she in relation to my doctor and he in relation to my parents' doctor, as I have a history of sexual abuse, I don't typically feel comfortable with male doctors, HOWEVER, my rheumatologist is a special exception.)
People such as this ignorant politician, talk of reverse racism but don't have a clue what they're talking about. Now, most of my doctor's patients are Asian, and if an Asian person prefers to see an Asian doctor, that is not racism. Just the same as me seeing an Asian doctor is not racism. What IS racism, however, is I saw an Asian doctor once, who told me that he was working as a junior doctor in a regional hospital, and he was the only doctor on duty one night when a man came in with a cut hand that needed stitching. The man racially abused the doctor and walked out of the Emergency Bay. The doctor said, "He'll be back. He won't find another doctor at this time of night." And he was right. The man apologised but the doctor said, "Okay, but you should have thought of that before."
Similarly, the First Nations Peoples in Australia, until May, 1967, were not counted as humans in the census! They were counted as flora and fauna! That is racism. And, today, to allow certain privileges to them, such as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service and the like, is NOT, contrary to this ignorant politician, reverse racism.
Just the same as I, okay, I see my doctor because she's good and because I have a good rapport with her, but I feel more comfortable with an Asian doctor for cultural reasons, too. Okay, my PCP is Asian, but my gastroenterologist, kidney specialist, neurologist and rheumatologist are Caucasian. My cardiologist is Asian. And mine is part of a paradox, namely that a lot of Asian autistics tend to feel more comfortable with Caucasians and many of us Caucasian autistics feel more comfortable around Japanese and other cultures.