{"id":29935,"date":"2021-03-20T00:59:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/stark-reality-of-anti-asian-racism-in-the-uk"},"modified":"2021-03-20T00:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:59:32","slug":"stark-reality-of-anti-asian-racism-in-the-uk-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29935","title":{"rendered":"Stark reality of anti-Asian racism in the UK | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a woman who is half Malaysian-Chinese and half white, I have spent my entire life being exoticised and stereotyped, writes <strong>Alex Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After reading about the shocking and heartbreaking news of the Atlanta shootings (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/mar\/18\/fbi-pressure-anti-asian-hate-crime-atlanta\" title=\"\">FBI under pressure to tackle anti-Asian hate crime in wake of Atlanta shootings<\/a>, 18 March), I can\u2019t help but reflect on the prevalence of racism towards east and south-east Asians in our own country. The UK is rife with it. Covid-19 hasn\u2019t caused the racism towards British east Asians and south-east Asians, as the UK media likes to claim. It\u2019s always been here \u2013 the virus has just aggravated it and given racists supposed \u201clegitimacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/18\/the-guardian-view-on-anti-asian-hate-not-just-a-pandemic-problem\">The Guardian view on anti-Asian hate: not just a pandemic problem<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/stark-reality-of-anti-asian-racism-in-the-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a woman who is half Malaysian-Chinese and half white, I have spent my entire life being exoticised and stereotyped, writes Alex SmithAfter reading about the shocking and heartbreaking news of the Atlanta shootings (FBI under pressure to tackle anti-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[41,50,70,362,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-malaysia","category-race","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29935","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29935\/revisions\/29936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}