After reading “The Cost of Speaking” by W.P. I was very indignant at her experience of being unfairly treated. She was turned down by the university where she worked because she was not good enough in their eyes. However, she was actually capable. She performed much better than other white male colleagues of hers in research, teaching, and service. So, she was refused just because of her Asian face. Moreover, the school’s solution was to hire the best lawyer to win the lawsuit, which was disgusting.
COVID-19, which just broke out in China in December, is a very good example. It is very frightful because it hurts us by not only the disease but also racial discrimination. Incidents of racial discrimination against the ethnic Chinese and even all people of Asian descent happen in succession across the world these days. In some places of the United States, some people are afraid of Asians as if Asians on the street had an invisible “infection circle”. The boundary between concern or self-protection and discrimination becomes unclear. In some news reports, COVID-19 is “racialized”. Such anti-Chinese or anti-foreign feelings remind many people of the racial discrimination against the ethnic Chinese and Asians during SARS of 2003. Although the authorities urge people over and over again to abandon prejudice, I believe such incidents mean that the racialism against the Chinese is still deep-rooted. I still remember that other races once laughed at Asians because of wearing face marks or being the virus themselves. Then, what is happening now? I think it is time for all humans rather than one nation or country to fight against the virus.
My question is why there are some Americans so racist?
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