Brisbane man calmly stands down woman during bizarre xenophobic confrontation

A Brisbane man has peacefully confronted a woman after she accused him of being a foreigner and said his father should “move back to New Zealand”.

The video, posted to the YouTube account of his father today, shows the man questioning the stranger’s abusive claims while waiting at a bus shelter.

“Video my son took while having a conversation with a sad and lonely lady carrying way too much thinly disguised hate. Proud of my son for his response,” the caption reads.

The video shows the man’s face, turned towards the woman, positioned just off-camera.

“We’ve been overrun with foreigners,” her voice can be heard saying.

“Overrun with foreigners, what do you mean?” the man asks.

The woman’s next comment is inaudible, however she appears to question his nationality, for his next reply is, “What do I think I am?”

Laughing in disbelief, he points out that he was “born here”, a claim the woman promptly dismisses.

Then the woman says he should “pack up and move back to New Zealand” because foreigners “don’t fit into the Australian way of life”.

When asked what the Australian way of life is, the woman responds by insisting, “it’s certainly not people your age skating up and down the footpath”.

The man’s calm handling of the verbal attack has since been praised by numerous YouTube users.

“Your son is wise beyond his years. I feel sorry for the old lady's ignorance,” user SuperScepter5 wrote.