'No Chinese:' Coronavirus panic fuels racism outbreak
Despite the novel coronavirus outbreak ruining the Spring Festival for millions of people, the festival continues to be the grandest holiday in Asia. Chinese descendants living outside the virus-hit nation were trying to catch up with the festive atmosphere, but racism connecting Chinese or Asians with the virus have been surfacing in several countries, in a time when solidarity should reign.
It is not always easy to draw the clear boundary between reasonable fear and subtle discrimination, yet many measures taken have surpassed their "protective" nature and using coronavirus as a scapegoat perpetuate outright racism.
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