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What happens when stereotypes and fear about Covid-19 arrive before the actual disease does? In the video above, Katherine Oung, a 11th grader in Florida, shows what teenagers like her and her friends face as the coronavirus pandemic brings to the surface the racism underlying her community. This is a useful source because it talks about how teenagers, who experience social media, and tons of information at once, are also experiencing COVID.
Asian Americans open up about xenophobic microaggressions during coronavirus outbreak. This is a news source talks about journalistic views of the subtle discrimination towards Asians in American have been facing due to the president’s rhetoric.
President Donald Trump: Calling it the 'Chinese virus' is not racist at all, it comes from China. By sharing this video, we want more readers to know that the President of the United States is wrong about COVID-19, and that such a mistake also has a seemingly right reason. We want the viewers to know and understand the reasons why we want to make such a topic by watching such a video.
Let's talk about why 'Chinese virus' is such a harmful label. This video focuses on why calling COVID-19 is bad. With videos like this, we want more people to understand and put a stop to it when they hear someone call it that.
While it may seem intuitive to identify new diseases by their origins, history has shown that doing so can harm the people who live there. Associating specific diseases with specific places can lead to discrimination, stigmatization and avoidance of towns or villages. “In the 19th century, as global trade and mobility allowed cholera to spread worldwide from its origins in the Ganges Delta, the disease quickly became known as “the Asiatic cholera.” That label persisted for decades, implicitly blaming an entire continent for a disease that can spread anywhere as a function of poor sanitation.”
Many Black and Asian Americans Say They Have Experienced Discrimination Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak. About four-in-ten U.S. adults say it has become more common for people to express racist views toward Asians since the pandemic began. “The coronavirus outbreak continues to have far-reaching health and economic consequences for the American public. But for many, especially Black and Asian Americans, the effects extend beyond medical and financial concerns. About four-in-ten Black and Asian adults say people have acted as if they were uncomfortable around them because of their race or ethnicity since the beginning of the outbreak, and similar shares say they worry that other people might be suspicious of them if they wear a mask when out in public, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.”
Why "Spanish Flu" was named after a country. “Spain was one of only a few major European countries to remain neutral during World War I. Unlike in the Allied and Central Powers nations, where wartime censors suppressed news of the flu to avoid affecting morale, the Spanish media was free to report on it in gory detail. News of the sickness first made headlines in Madrid in late-May 1918, and coverage only increased after the Spanish King Alfonso XIII came down with a nasty case a week later. Since nations undergoing a media blackout could only read in depth accounts from Spanish news sources, they naturally assumed that the country was the pandemic’s ground zero. The Spanish, meanwhile, believed the virus had spread to them from France, so they took to calling it the “French Flu.” While it’s unlikely that the “Spanish Flu” originated in Spain, scientists are still unsure of its source. France, China and Britain have all been suggested as the potential birthplace of the virus, as has the United States, where the first known case was reported at a military base in Kansas on March 11, 1918. Researchers have also conducted extensive studies on the remains of victims of the pandemic, but they have yet to discover why the strain that ravaged the world in 1918 was so lethal.”
What happens when stereotypes and fear about Covid-19 arrive before the actual disease does? In the video above, Katherine Oung, a 11th grader in Florida, shows what teenagers like her and her friends face as the coronavirus pandemic brings to the surface the racism underlying her community. This is a useful source because it talks about how teenagers, who experience social media, and tons of information at once, are also experiencing COVID.
Asian Americans open up about xenophobic microaggressions during coronavirus outbreak. This is a news source talks about journalistic views of the subtle discrimination towards Asians in American have been facing due to the president’s rhetoric.
- https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/a-lesson-from-covid-19-a-history-of-racism-and-disease-in-hawaii/
President Donald Trump: Calling it the 'Chinese virus' is not racist at all, it comes from China. By sharing this video, we want more readers to know that the President of the United States is wrong about COVID-19, and that such a mistake also has a seemingly right reason. We want the viewers to know and understand the reasons why we want to make such a topic by watching such a video.
Let's talk about why 'Chinese virus' is such a harmful label. This video focuses on why calling COVID-19 is bad. With videos like this, we want more people to understand and put a stop to it when they hear someone call it that.
While it may seem intuitive to identify new diseases by their origins, history has shown that doing so can harm the people who live there. Associating specific diseases with specific places can lead to discrimination, stigmatization and avoidance of towns or villages. “In the 19th century, as global trade and mobility allowed cholera to spread worldwide from its origins in the Ganges Delta, the disease quickly became known as “the Asiatic cholera.” That label persisted for decades, implicitly blaming an entire continent for a disease that can spread anywhere as a function of poor sanitation.”
- https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/a-lesson-from-covid-19-a-history-of-racism-and-disease-in-hawaii/
Many Black and Asian Americans Say They Have Experienced Discrimination Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak. About four-in-ten U.S. adults say it has become more common for people to express racist views toward Asians since the pandemic began. “The coronavirus outbreak continues to have far-reaching health and economic consequences for the American public. But for many, especially Black and Asian Americans, the effects extend beyond medical and financial concerns. About four-in-ten Black and Asian adults say people have acted as if they were uncomfortable around them because of their race or ethnicity since the beginning of the outbreak, and similar shares say they worry that other people might be suspicious of them if they wear a mask when out in public, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.”
Why "Spanish Flu" was named after a country. “Spain was one of only a few major European countries to remain neutral during World War I. Unlike in the Allied and Central Powers nations, where wartime censors suppressed news of the flu to avoid affecting morale, the Spanish media was free to report on it in gory detail. News of the sickness first made headlines in Madrid in late-May 1918, and coverage only increased after the Spanish King Alfonso XIII came down with a nasty case a week later. Since nations undergoing a media blackout could only read in depth accounts from Spanish news sources, they naturally assumed that the country was the pandemic’s ground zero. The Spanish, meanwhile, believed the virus had spread to them from France, so they took to calling it the “French Flu.” While it’s unlikely that the “Spanish Flu” originated in Spain, scientists are still unsure of its source. France, China and Britain have all been suggested as the potential birthplace of the virus, as has the United States, where the first known case was reported at a military base in Kansas on March 11, 1918. Researchers have also conducted extensive studies on the remains of victims of the pandemic, but they have yet to discover why the strain that ravaged the world in 1918 was so lethal.”
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“My ethnicity is not a virus”
“Time for facts not fear”
These lines and images show how the connection of disease and race is a prevalent issue. These protests have come from people all across the US.
“Time for facts not fear”
These lines and images show how the connection of disease and race is a prevalent issue. These protests have come from people all across the US.
This is a graph from the Pew Research Center. It shows that,
“Asian Americans are more likely than any other group to say they have been subject to slurs or jokes because of their race or ethnicity since the coronavirus outbreak: 31% say this has happened to them, compared with 21% of Black adults, 15% of Hispanic adults and 8% of white adults. About a quarter (26%) of Asian Americans and 20% of Black Americans say they feared someone might threaten or physically attack them, more than the shares of white and Hispanic Americans.”
“Asian Americans are more likely than any other group to say they have been subject to slurs or jokes because of their race or ethnicity since the coronavirus outbreak: 31% say this has happened to them, compared with 21% of Black adults, 15% of Hispanic adults and 8% of white adults. About a quarter (26%) of Asian Americans and 20% of Black Americans say they feared someone might threaten or physically attack them, more than the shares of white and Hispanic Americans.”
This is an infographic from the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance that details ways to protect Asian American workers. It explicates a language that can be used to help students too. APALA National Executive Board and UTLA/ AFT/NEA member Arlene Inouye states,“As a proud product of California’s public education system and as Secretary for UTLA, the second largest teachers’ local in the country, I know very well how educators are often left to figure out how to support sick students who come to school because their parents are not able to take a day off work. During times of heightened xenophobia and racialized discrimination, we are also left responsible for protecting all students and creating safe environments for them to learn and thrive. Right now, with widespread misinformation related to COVID-19, we are ready to protect our Asian American students, who already face some of the highest rates of bullying in this nation.”