At worst, it serves as racist fear-mongering that can provoke incidents of physical violence against Asian people in America.
Still, Niou says, she hears about racist encounters from her constituents daily, and gets them herself."After I publicized the Lunar New Year celebration in Chinatown, we got a lot of hate. People began calling my office and saying 'you eat bats' and hanging up," she says."So the problem with using stock imagery of Asians in an article that is otherwise informative is that it perpetuates very dangerous stereotypes without getting the proper information out there.
Kris Chen, a 48-year-old who works in the music industry, has had multiple racist encounters since the news of coronavirus broke."Twice last week," he told Refinery29 on Tuesday,"I was walking down Broadway in Midtown Manhattan when someone stared at me, grabbed the person next to them and literally jumped back several feet. One of them actually said 'CHINESE PERSON' loudly enough for me to hear.
felt very much like the past repeating itself. As a volunteer at the Museum of the Chinese in America, she's seen evidence of the ways in which imagery of Chinatowns across America have been manipulated going back more than a century. "Chinatowns being depicted as dirty and 'other' have existed for a long time in American history," Lin told Refinery29.
Lin was recently waiting in a crowded line at a Duane Reade to buy shampoo and razors when,"the lady in front of me shooed me and told me to stay two feet away from her because 'who knows what diseases I may have.' When I told her she was being racist, she told me she's not being racist, it's called being 'cultured.'"
This type of attitude – the idea that it's okay to shun Asian people out of fear of"contamination" – reinforces hundreds of years of
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