COVID-19: The xenophobia against Asians

COVID-19: The xenophobia against Asians In 2002, in the Guangdong Province, in China, an epidemic called SARS spread worldwide but was quickly contained. During that time, it spurred backlash against China, as well as Chinese or people of Asian descent living in other countries as well. This mainly because it originated there, and so it had to mean that China and SARS were closely associated. Now the modern COVID-19 is showing traits of that. As of now, the novel coronavirus has reached 4.9 million cases with a 323,000 casualty rate. It has disrupted sports, businesses, politics, and so many other things. But what was unaccounted for was that the blame shifted to China again since of course it originated in Wuhan, which is a city in China. After spreading internationally, rumors started to come up about the cause and origin of the new virus. Fake videos were released from a “woman eating a bat” which immediately went viral. This caused a stigma about how basically Chinese people a...