Column: Coronavirus, the outbreak narrative and how our fear fuels our xenophobia and racism
LA TimesOn Tuesday, around midnight, someone uploaded a video to Twitter showing emergency vehicles responding to an incident at an apartment complex near USC, the Lorenzo, known to be popular with Chinese international students. “On the one hand, there are public health habits that promote safety and well-being — but these actions often do the insidious work of playing into already existing racial apprehensions and aggravating them into a public anxiety,” said Nayan Shah, a USC professor and author of a book about the racial dynamics of public health concerns in San Francisco’s Chinatown. “It’s a part of how people try to make sense of infectious disease.” National borders will never protect us from disease, no matter how high a wall we build. I went there because, a few years ago, exotic-animal sales in the San Gabriel Valley became a national media controversy simply because someone unfamiliar with Chinese culture had uploaded photographs of a local grocery store’s exotic-meats selections to social media. There are American things that Chinese people won’t eat, and Chinese things that Americans don’t eat,” Ling said.
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