{"id":13533,"date":"2020-02-02T03:06:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/01\/coronavirus-weaponised-way-to-be-openly-racist"},"modified":"2020-02-02T08:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T23:56:47","slug":"coronavirus-is-being-weaponised-as-a-way-to-be-openly-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13533","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus fears fuel racism and hostility, say British-Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese people resident in Britain report strained friendships and a shift in attitudes<\/p>\n<p>Dr Zhou* had just arrived at Gatwick airport last week when a British couple physically recoiled as she entered a lift. \u201cThe woman looked at me, quickly turned to her husband and told him \u2018they should wear their masks\u2019,\u201d she said. \u201cThey assumed I didn\u2019t understand English, that I was \u2018fresh off the boat\u2019 and that I probably had coronavirus.\u201d Humiliated, Zhou \u2013 a scientist who was travelling from London to Slovenia \u2013 stood in uncomfortable silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI give people the benefit of doubt because they\u2019re scared, but why can\u2019t they give me the benefit of doubt? Fear is no reason to be racist. Statistically, as a British citizen who hasn\u2019t been to China in two years, I have the same risk level as a white person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/01\/coronavirus-weaponised-way-to-be-openly-racist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese people resident in Britain report strained friendships and a shift in attitudesDr Zhou* had just arrived at Gatwick airport last week when a British couple physically recoiled as she entered a lift. \u201cThe woman looked at me, quickly turned to he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,914,215,299,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-london","category-science","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13543,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions\/13543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}