01 February 2025
FIGHTING ANTI-ASIAN HATE
April 25, 2021
“People are unhappy, they want to find someone to blame and Chinese people become the target. Asians are part of the country, when you say ‘Go back to China!’, how can you say go back to China, they’re not even from China. People think that Chinese people are all the same, you cannot think people of the whole country think the same way. Don’t assume the person is the whole race you read about on a newspaper or website.”
Thank you to Nina Huang and Melissa Fan for unpacking how cultural misunderstanding, socioeconomic and political struggles have fuelled anti-Asian racism and hate crime and its impact on the lived experiences of the diverse Asian communities in South Africa and around the globe.
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“People are unhappy, they want to find someone to blame and Chinese people become the target. Asians are part of the country, when you say ‘Go back to China!’, how can you say go back to China, they’re not even from China. People think that Chinese people are all the same, you cannot think people of the whole country think the same way. Don’t assume the person is the whole race you read about on a newspaper or website.”
Thank you to Nina Huang and Melissa Fan for unpacking how cultural misunderstanding, socioeconomic and political struggles have fuelled anti-Asian racism and hate crime and its impact on the lived experiences of the diverse Asian communities in South Africa and around the globe.