Designers Phillip Lim and Prabal Gurung are speaking out against the discrimination Asian people have faced as coronavirus spreads across the globe:
Dr. Chou says that unfortunately, this reaction to a widespread illness is nothing new, though the speed at which we now consume media may have exacerbated this behavior in 2020.
“We have seen similar xenophobic fear with other iterations of flu in 1889 with Russians and 1918 with the Spanish,” she says. “We are connected instantly now through the media and 24 hour news cycle, so we see the widespread panic and it being associated with old racist tropes of Asian, specifically Chinese, people. Misinformation can spread quickly, and the magnitude of an issue can be preemptively amplified.
“I think it's hard to stop all the racist comments and attacks since we have centuries of history of racial discrimination and xenophobia,” Dr. Chou notes. “What I hope is that there are enough people, of all races, willing to address these behaviors and let those making disparaging comments know that it's inappropriate.
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