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NOA Episode 3 Coronavirus and Racism: the Asian American Narrative
On another episode of Narratives of Asia, we will be continuing on our previous theme of Coronavirus and Racism. Due to a combination of media stigmatization and perpetuation of the virus origins, anti-Chinese sentiments have increased greatly across the international community, witnessing dramatic increases in racist attacks, harassment and assaults.
NOA Episode 1.2 Coronavirus and Racism
The virus itself is a threat to public health, and somehow, the masks represent that threat because people here are told only to wear masks if they are ill. But there are two different ways of going about the whole idea of mask wearing.
NOA Episode 1.1 Coronavirus and Racism
I think the interesting thing about us being Asians is that we are minority but not in the same sense as other people. There is a term they use to describe this, which is ‘model minority’. So we are the minority, but we are not too different.