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#Thread about #racism #BlackLivesMatter #AsianLivesMatter #AsiansAreHuman and #discrimination :
Attacks against Asians in the United States have also increased since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

nzz.ch/pro-global/usa…
This has to do with the remarks made by Donald Trump about the "China virus". But the racism against Asians goes back further.
It's difficult to quantify, but the sense of threat has grown so strong that vigilante groups have formed in the hardest-hit cities of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland, patrolling Asian neighborhoods at night to protect residents .
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Here a #Thread about the #History of #China and #Japan:
The inhabitants of the areas that are now China have always identified with their family, their hometown, their province, but not with "China".

#Asia #AsianLivesMatter #AsiansAreHuman
#conflict
nzz.ch/pro-global/asi…
Until the end of the 19th century, it would not have occurred to the Chinese to speak of their “nation”, and even the name “China” was alien to them.
It was the “imperialist powers”, especially the Japanese, who first gave the Chinese the idea that they were a nation.
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