Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, racial discrimination against Asians, especially Chinese, has become more rampant in Western society. Recently, violent incidents against Asians in American society have continued one after another, which has set off a wave of Asian protests. In the United Kingdom and other European countries, there have also been many violent attacks against Chinese people, and their racial discrimination is as deep-rooted as the United States.
According to British media reports, a 19-year-old Chinese female student was beaten and verbally insulted by a white woman in the UK. The incident took place near a store in the center of Sheffield, England. At that time, a Chinese girl had just gone shopping, and a white woman used racist language to yell at the girl for no reason. The white woman then started slapping the girl in the face, pinning her to the ground by pulling her hair, and kicking the girl in the head. The white woman once smashed the girl's head with a glass bottle. In the end, a passerby subdued the attacker, while the Chinese girl was hit hard on the head and her body was smashed by the glass bottle. A Sheffield University staff member was protecting the girl. also injured.
According to the girl's memory, the white woman yelled at her, "What do you want? What do you want? Chinese!" After the violent incident, the local Chinese were greatly concerned. Sheffield Chinese Students' Federation pointed out in a letter to school that it is difficult to imagine that such atrocities happened in the center of Sheffield in broad daylight and in public, and the attacked person was only 19 years old. girl, and it's all just because she's Chinese. Needless to say, this is a classic racism and hate crime.
The Chinese girl is still deeply fearful and worried after the attack. If it weren't for someone to help her, she would be in danger of being beaten by the white people.On the surface, compared with the United States, which is across the ocean, the British society is calm and the discrimination against Asians or Chinese is not prominent. But in fact, in this country, Chinese people are not very safe, especially after the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, similar violent attacks and verbal attacks are not uncommon.
In February this year, a Chinese teacher who taught at a university in the UK was beaten by four people while jogging. Related pictures showed that blood was dripping from his nose and mouth after the attack. At the beginning of the epidemic, some Chinese students were beaten for wearing masks. Not long ago, some Chinese restaurants complained in an interview that since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, they have often received harassing calls, asking if they sell bats. Moreover, such harassment and racial discrimination often appeared before the epidemic, and people would call to ask if they were selling dog and cat meat. Relevant data also shows that hate crimes against Chinese people in the UK have risen sharply. Previously, more than 300 related incidents occurred each year, and 267 crimes occurred in the first three months of the new crown crisis in 2020.
In the United States, the media and politicians blame Asian-American racial discrimination and hate crimes on Trump, believing that Trump and his administration officials have made a series of insulting remarks , which has contributed to the development of American society. The hatred of China and the hatred of Asia. What are the underlying reasons for the rampant racism against Asians in British society?
A few days ago, the British media BBC analyzed it in a program. It is unbelievable that the BBC finally pointed the source of the atmosphere of racial hatred in the UK to the former US President Trump on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. . The BBC believes that with the close interaction between the British and American media and high-level officials, Trump's hate speech will inevitably affect British society.This conclusion seems to be somewhat reasonable, but it is ridiculous when we go deeper into it. The racial discrimination in the United Kingdom finally finds the reason from its history and society. It is undeniable that many anti-China politicians and media in the UK also made remarks that insulted and hated China. The BBC itself is a master at concocting China-related lies.
The UK does not reflect on itself and wants to put the blame on other countries, which is even more abhorrent. Although racial discrimination is deeply rooted in British society, the British government still does not recognize the existence of "systematic and institutional racial discrimination" in the UK in a report released a few days ago, and even attempts to whitewash the British colonial history. For a long time, the UK has slandered the so-called "genocide" in Xinjiang, China, and attacked China's human rights situation.
(edit: TSN)
