A few month ago, when covid-19 haven’t been wide spread in the US. Chinese students and residents are struggling with one question :” Should we wear mask on the street or not.” As many of our relatives and families living in China, we know better than US people about the importance of wearing mask. Of cource wearing mask would help us preventing covid-19 than buying toilet paper. However, we still need to worry about our safety wearing mask.
Then how would it relates to this cource? And isn’t it individual cases instead of systematic injustice? In my opinion, these crimes and unjustice source from the US society as a whole. Just like nobody hope Sars ever happen, nobody would ever hope the occurance of covid 19, and China has already do the best to prevent the development of the virus. I’m not going further into how China is innocent from the occurance of this worldwide tragedy. What called my attention is how the American government, in the leading of Donald Trump, is trying to attribute the severe situation in the America to China.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/02/asia/trump-china-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html
While we could see he’s good at blaming other, who should be responsible for the development of the virus? Again, I don’t want to argue a lot. Many speeches from Donald trump would tell us the answer. The link below would lead you to one of the plenty example of the genius speeches from him.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
Not only from the perspective of government, the citizens were also developing a discrimination toward asian and toward mask. New York is well known for its mordernization. In my impression, those modern people living in New York should have a greater access to resources and the safety guard there should be fine. Unfortunately, many news about attacks on asian wearing mask was caught on New York City. Here’s a video of an asian being asked to move because he is asian and probably Chinese.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/irate-subway-passenger-sprays-asian-man-with-air-freshener-over-coronavirus-concerns/2316216/
Finally, I would say I’m not born and live in the US. I’m not frequently using the social media in the US. And what I see might not be what American people see, if they also pay attention to these events. So I might also telling a single story stems from my personal emotion and the environment I live in. I’m very glad to see words from a different view from American citizens and what they would say.
Thank you for this diary entry. It’s been infuriating to watch the racism and xeno/sinophobia that has skyrocketed since the beginning of the pandemic. Perhaps one day, we will live in a world in which people of all nations can work together to react to a crisis like this, instead of pointing fingers and trying to ascribe blame.
Hi Hou,
I real like your post. The outbreak has indeed brought about many unexpected changes in our lives. In this case, racial discrimination becomes more serious. So I felt very sad. In this case, people are more united. Go through the hard times together. Instead of blaming each other.