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Casual Racism Towards Ethnic Asian Diaspora

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Title (Dublin Core)

Casual Racism Towards Ethnic Asian Diaspora

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

This is a short video where I asked my friend Nikko Guan to share her experiences with casual racism toward ethnic Asians at the beginning of the pandemic here in Melbourne, Australia. There was a lot of panic and misinformation surrounding the coronavirus, and a lot of people attributed the origin of the virus (Wuhan China) with the cause of the virus and harboured distrust toward anyone who looked remotely foreign or Asian. Some of my friends and acquaintances who were Asian but not even Chinese also reported similar experiences. It's especially pertinent as this also affected Asian diaspora who were born in Australia and may have never even been overseas, but are judged purely on their appearance. My friend in the interview had not been to China, or anywhere internationally, for many years. It's important that a global disaster that is the result of natural catastrophe isn't judged on malice for political or racial prejudices.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 23, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Nikko Guan

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Susanna Zheng

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

Video. Sent by my friend Nikko Guan.

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Issues
English Conflict
English Emotion
English Social Distance

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

angry
paranoid
Chinese
immigrant family
second-generation immigrant
tense

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

China
racism
fear
Asian
diaspora

Collection (Dublin Core)

Asian & Pacific Islander Voices

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

11/09/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

11/11/2020
08/12/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/23/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

This item was submitted on November 9, 2020 by Susanna Zheng using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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