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No Chinese Allowed! Coronaracism
With the recent Wuhan Corona Virus outbreak, the world has shown its colors once again.
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.