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Coronavirus outbreak stokes Asian-phobic bigotry worldwide
//On Feb. 4 in Bolivia, three Japanese tourists in their 20s visiting the Uyuni salt flats were quarantined at a local hospital, despite having no history of traveling to China nor exhibiting any symptoms of the pneumonia-causing infection.
//At the end of January in Rio de Janeiro, a Japanese Brazilian law student was abused on a subway by a woman who called her a “Chinese pig” that is “spreading diseases to everyone.”
// in New York in early February, an Asian woman wearing a face mask was allegedly attacked by a man who rained down a barrage of punches and kicks on her in a Chinatown subway station. He also directed various obscenities at her and called her “diseased.”
Full Article: Japan Times, (18-Feb)
https://bit.ly/2TkfAIH
Further reading:
Growing Anti-Chinese sentiments in Europe amidst the Wuhan Coronavirus storm
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17666
#Japanese #Coronavirus #AnitAsian #Discrimination
Coronavirus outbreak stokes Asian-phobic bigotry worldwide
//On Feb. 4 in Bolivia, three Japanese tourists in their 20s visiting the Uyuni salt flats were quarantined at a local hospital, despite having no history of traveling to China nor exhibiting any symptoms of the pneumonia-causing infection.
//At the end of January in Rio de Janeiro, a Japanese Brazilian law student was abused on a subway by a woman who called her a “Chinese pig” that is “spreading diseases to everyone.”
// in New York in early February, an Asian woman wearing a face mask was allegedly attacked by a man who rained down a barrage of punches and kicks on her in a Chinatown subway station. He also directed various obscenities at her and called her “diseased.”
Full Article: Japan Times, (18-Feb)
https://bit.ly/2TkfAIH
Further reading:
Growing Anti-Chinese sentiments in Europe amidst the Wuhan Coronavirus storm
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17666
#Japanese #Coronavirus #AnitAsian #Discrimination