Anti-Asian Racism re-emerged since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. I want to talk about this topic and searched for information since the news that from interviewing Jeremy Lin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/sports/basketball/jeremy-lin-asian-attacks-racism.html
Asians who have been attacked by hate speech will mention that they are regarded as the “pathogen” of the “new crown virus” when they mention the reasons for their unfortunate experience. For example, a Chinese mother in Georgia said: “My 14-year-old daughter told me that she met two white men calling her ‘China Drug’, and she still dare not go out. Politicians, including Trump, described the COVID as “China Virus”, which undoubtedly has nothing to do with anti-Asian hate speech. At the beginning of the epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that using place names or ethnic names to refer to viruses will cause stigmatization that is difficult to eliminate, and the harm should not be ignored. The use of viruses to stigmatize Asians is even more disturbing in the European and American world where “anti-Asian racism” is deeply ingrained. After another G League player called him “coronavirus” on the court, Lin, who is Taiwanese-American, has been speaking out against the racism and bigotry that numerous Asian-Americans have faced since former President Donald J. Trump began referring to the coronavirus as the “China virus” last year.
Lin also feels like part of my role is to bring solidarity and unity, so I need to educate myself and continue to learn more and also support other groups, other movements and other organizations while also bringing awareness to the Asian-American plight.
This is something like what the Leavers’s said and the one and the other theory. Self-identity is not only a problem specific to immigrants, ethnic minorities or those “offshore people”, but a life problem that everyone needs to face and think about. But this issue is very clearly presented in the works of immigrants and immigrants. The alienated cultural environment thrown into the sky makes the problems of identity and self-identity more prominent, and the contradictions between different others and different selves are more vivid. And how to avoid to be the other and how to prevent the majority to be the one and to act recklessly, to suppress and discriminate against the other is the question and what the problem is. I hope we won’t have such a thing happen again in the future.
References:
Bergoffen, Debra and Megan Burke, “Simone de Beauvoir”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/beauvoir/>.