Tahan's entitled to feel disappointed and upset that someone isn't embracing their ethnicity and heritage the way she has.
Calling Mikkayla "racist" is still inaccurate and misrepresentative of what Mikkayla has been saying. End of story.
Tahan grew up in one of the largest indigenous families in Darwin. She's been blessed to have an upbringing where she's surrounded by a large extended family who shares her bloodline and her heritage. That's something Mikkayla has not had in her upbringing. Tahan has no doubt experienced racism, but she will never understand how it feels to be 'othered' even when looking around at your own family. It's a shame Tahan isn't more perceptive and can't appreciate why Mikkayla is struggling with this. That's one of Tahan's biggest flaws, and it's actually something she shares with Tully. They both think that if someone don't respond to something the way they do, there's something wrong with that person or they're wrong for their thoughts/reactions. Tahan isn't able to look at this situation and understand why Mikkayla might feel the way she does. Tahan's mind just goes: "This person feel this way, and I do not. Therefore this person is wrong/stupid/horrible/racist/oversensitive/etc etc."
So, after your post I went and googled the Lew Fat family. Interesting.
Quite the achievers aren't they.
And I find your posts interesting. But I assume you have just googled like me, and made assumptions.
We don't know anything.
I do know Tahan's appearance stands out more than Mikkayala does in every city in Australia, maybe Darwin is the exception.
But Asians sure don't feel out of place anymore, anywhere in Oz.
Newcastle can't be that white is it?
And what about her life outside NT?
She went through the same as Jade, moved to Melbourne, boyfriend dumped her , she focused on her studies and completed a degree.
Melbourne has plenty of arsehole racists - and they especially hate indigenous people.
There is a whole lot more going on between these 2. They early on appeared to have an agreement or to have sorted stuff out.