Blowback of COVID: Asian Discrimination

written by 10418 Lee Seo Hyeon

Many things in the world have changed as the world has changed.

However, discrimination and insults against race have slightly changed or disappeared.

Racism appears at the moment when we should be happiest and hurts people, young or old.

For example, in countries where different races, such as the U.S., live, students of different races make offensive gestures to mock Asian students, which causes lifelong trauma.

Since the beginning of COVID-19, Asians have faced new forms of hate, such as being referred to as COVID-19 or being told to “go back to your country” while being sprayed with hand sanitizer.

In this way, if you think your race is superior to anyone else and insult or mock other races, this is a behavior that harms human dignity and can never be said to be socially or ethically correct.

Therefore, I want everyone to know that everyone of any race is equal and has the right to be respected, like participating in anti-discrimination movements by creating hashtags that oppose racial discrimination on SNS currently used by many people.

This is the fourth part in a six-part series that the Opinion department of the PRESS explore the issue in detail.