Coronavirus Exposes Racism Against Chinese Americans

How coronavirus is exposing the Asian-American “model minority” myth, according to a Chinese-American high school student.

Story from News What It’s Like To Be A Chinese-American High School Senior During Coronavirus Joyce Jiang Last Updated April 17, 2020 , 7:30 PM For about a week in February, I had a mild cold, possibly allergies, and I felt compelled to force in my sneezes at school thanks to “jokes” from my classmates that Chinese people deserve to suffer from coronavirus because “they’ll eat anything that moves.” While I watched physical hate crimes against East Asians rise , my Virginia public high school classroom mirrored the outside world with xenophobic comments even from teachers who joked that s

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