Racist rant: tourists abused on Sydney bus 

　　A group of Asian tourists have been subjected to a racist rant on a
 Sydney bus that was filmed and posted online by a female passenger.
　　Heidi, who asked for her surname to be withheld, pulled out her phone
 and started filming the latter part of the rant on Easter Saturday after
 she told 
the abusive man to get off the bus to no avail.
　　（a video）
　　In the video, a Caucasian man yells at a middle-aged man and woman of
 Korean appearance about the Japanese bombing of Australia during World War
 II and 
calls the pair "f---ing bastards".
　　Before the camera started rolling, the man yelled racist taunts such as,
 "Do you f---ing speak English?", "Japanese c---s" and "why did you come to Australia?", predominantly at the woman, Heidi said.
　　The racist rant shocked Heidi, a 30- year-old office worker of Chinese descent, so she and another passenger told the man to get off the bus and
 started filming.
　　However, she said she was even more shocked at what came next.
　　"We didn't receive any support from the other passengers," she said.
　　"Some told us to sit back down and be quiet and everyone just looked 
really blase. No one did anything about it. In fact, two girls sitting next
 to me thought it was funny and burst into laughter."
　　"I said 'why is it funny? It's offensive, we should do something about 
it'."
　　She said the two women who laughed at her, one of whom can be heard on 
the video speaking to a friend on the phone, were of Aboriginal appearance.
　　"The fact that the Aboriginal girls found it funny that a white male 
[was] telling another racial group to get out of the country because they
 don't belong here really puts the icing on the cake," she said.
　　The incident happened at 7.30pm on Easter Saturday at Town Hall on 
the
 470 route from Circular Quay to Lilyfield.
　　The State Transit Authority has been contacted for comment.
　　Heidi said she didn't see what provoked the man to start abusing the
 Asian tourists but it started midway down the bus and continued as the
 man 
got up and alighted at the front.
　　At one point, the Asian man apologised to the abusive man in an attempt
 to pacify him but it only seemed to further enrage him.
　　"The only thing I could think of at the time was to film it," Heidi said.
　　The incident is the latest in a string of racist rants on public transport
 to be filmed or shared on social media.
　　In March, a video filmed on a Perth bus showed a woman verbally 
abusing another woman, who she refers to as Chinese, for speaking in 
another language.
　　In February, ABC newsreader Jeremy Fernandez tweeted about being 
called a "black c---" who should "go back to his country" by a female
 passenger on a Sydney bus. He was told by the bus driver to move seats
 but refused to.
　　In November last year, footage of a racist attack on a French woman 
on a Melbourne bus went viral after she was called a dog by male
 passengers, threatened with having her breasts cut off and told to
 "speak English or die".
　　Heidi said she had seen a viral video of the Melbourne incident and 
felt like the scene she witnessed on Saturday was the "Sydney sequel".
　　"It felt really surreal," she said. "It upsets me when Asians (or 
any other racial groups for that matter) are the targets of racist abuse.
 But it disgusts me more when we get told we shouldn't stand up for what's
 right."