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No Chinese Allowed! Coronaracism

T.O.M. 黄耀全
4 min readFeb 14, 2020

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With the recent Wuhan Corona Virus outbreak, the world has shown its colors once again.

Less than 0.001% of chinese people have coronavirus yet more than 99.999% have already experienced coronaracism

Chinese Xenophobia or Anti-Chinese sentiment or Sinophobia has been well documented throughout the past 200 years. Examples are such as Chinese Exclusion Act 1882, USA, Japanese atrocities to chinese during World War 2 and Australia’s White Australia Policy 1902.

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: Chinese workers were forbidden and treated as second-class citizens

However, anti-China sentiment has remained permanent in the West and one Asian country: only 28% of Germans and Italians and 37% of Americans viewed China favorably while in Japan, just 5% of respondents had a favorable opinion of the country.

Empire of Japan was also known for strong Sinophobia. Shown here was beheading of Chinese captives.

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