An Australian family subjected to a racially charged rant telling them to 'go back to China' during a road rage dispute have spoken out after the perpetrator apologised.
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A video filmed in the carpark of a Bunnings store in Hawthorn, Melbourne on Wednesday, showed a woman in a blue jumper hurling insults through the motorist's open driver's door.
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In the video, the man could be heard repeatedly saying 'I go straight, you give way,' while the woman pointed at him.
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'You filthy, go the f*** back to China,' she said.
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'That's not how you drive in this country.'
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The motorist's son, Daniel Chen, uploaded the video to Reddit where it went viral and sparked outrage over the woman's brazen actions.
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The woman was later revealed to be Monarchs Arts Studio founder Alice Krause.
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A viral video showed a woman, Alice Krause, in a blue jumper hurling insults through the motorist's car door during a road rage confrontation at Bunnings Hawthorn last week
The couple's son Daniel Chen shared a lengthy statement on behalf of the family in response the woman's apology
Vandals later scrawled 'racist' in black spray paint on the front windows of Krause's Auburn Road studio in Melbourne's east
Krause then publicly apologised to the family on television and via a written statement, adding that she had let her art students and their families down.
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'Saying 'go back to China' is cruel and degrading.
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I take full responsibility for saying this.
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To the man I spoke to, I am deeply sorry.
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You deserved to be treated with dignity and respect.
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I insulted you and spoke to you as though you had no right to belong here.
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The family over the weekend released a statement written by Mr Chen in response, saying they had not been personally apologised to, but that it was not necessary.
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'We don't think there's any need to apologise to us in person,' the statement read.
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'We just hope she really takes some time to think about why she felt that way about us in the first place.
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We hope she can change the way she sees people from different background, not just feel sorry about what happened.
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We also hope what happened makes other people with similar views stop and think.'
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The family said this would be more useful than an apology.
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They also thanked the young women who stepped in to defend them by calling out Krause's behaviour mid-rant.
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Krause stood in front of the motorist's car after her racist tirade
A man seen scraping graffiti off the art studio said Krause had received death threats
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She didn't know us at all, but she stepped in when she saw what was happening.
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We were so touched by what she did,' they said in a statement.
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'She reminded us that there are so many good people in Australia.
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To us, she showed what being a good Australian really means.
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'We hope something good comes out of all this.
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We don't want more anger or hatred.
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We just hope people can be a little kinder to each other,' they wrote.
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'And to everyone who has sent us messages and shown us support, thank you so much.
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It really means a lot to us.'
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The statement said the family would usually just 'walk away' and avoid trouble but the young woman's actions inspired them so much they feel they would now help others in similar situations.
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Mr Chen also released his own statement in which he said it was important to confront this type of behaviour.
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'You would think in 2026, that reminder wouldn't be necessary,' he said.
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'Behaviour like this should never become so normalised that people feel comfortable expressing it without consideration for the harm it causes to others.
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Krause swiftly left her studio after the media turned up there following the viral video
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Thank you to everyone who has shown their support, shared their stories, and stood with us throughout this.
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The Daily Mail previously spoke to a man scraping graffiti off Krause's after-school art studio and who was also seen driving Krause from the business.
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The man, who claimed he did not work at the studio, agreed that what Krause said at the Bunnings was racist, but argued it was out-of-character and she is not a racist person.
He also said he had known Krause for 'quite a long time' but when asked about the nature of their relationship he said that was a 'personal question'.
The man, who did not reveal his name, told the Daily Mail the studio would not be re-opening for the foreseeable future'.
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'Look, this is not safe, this is a children's venue, this is violence,' the man said as he was gesturing to the graffiti he was scraping off the front window of the Auburn Road studio.
'There's been death threats, there's been people threatening to firebomb, it's dangerous, it's dangerous to expose kids to that kind of violence.'
In the original viral Reddit post by Mr Chen, he called the incident 'straight up just unAustralian' and said he wanted to draw attention to it.
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'Honestly never thought this would happen in Melbourne, especially not out in the public, so brazen and fully unabashed,' he said.
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