- The coronavirus epidemic has been spreading for several weeks, and affected France a few days ago.
- Coming from China, the virus brought with it its share of prejudices.
- Our internet users have shared with us their testimonies on this subject.
Chinese Coronavirus, "Yellow Alert. These words, inscribed in one of the Courrier Picard , did not fail to do on the web, because deemed deeply racist by a large number of Internet users. Widely shared, this title only seems to be the tip of the iceberg, if we can't believe the hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus that appeared on social networks.
People of Asian origin (or with physical traits) have experienced an increase in verbal attacks and other discriminatory attitudes since the start of the epidemic. To report on the phenomenon, we asked our concerned Internet users to tell us what they have experienced in recent weeks.
"The Chinese, the Vietnamese and the others are all the same"
The least we can say is that these remarks are sometimes of unrestrained violence. Manon paid the price: "I was arrested by a person who came to tell me" The Chinese, the Vietnamese and the others are all the same, you have the coronavirus ": daily racism is exacerbated with this virus. », She tells us. Free attacks, which Julia, too, experienced. Only because it is "Asian style": "I go to the Crous cafeteria to have a snack, a group of students realizes my presence and stares at me ... A boy in this group puts his scarf on his mouth , a girl sprawls on her friend to avoid me and goes out: "I like to eat spring rolls but I don't want to eat Chinese lately". I did not react immediately either, I was so shocked by the violence of the words and this humiliation that I did nothing. "
Fear of the mask?
Prejudices relating to the absurd which pursued Cédric, intern in medicine, until at his place of work: "I received a couple in hospitalization and the lady, by seeing me arriving, the air worried, moves back and asks me without any complex to bring him a mask. I'm 28 years old and I've been in France for 28 years… ”Scathing.
The mask, precisely, seems to crystallize the concerns. According to Sophie, another internet user, there is "a cultural misunderstanding about wearing a mask: in China, healthy people wear it for prevention". She also insists on the fact that a patient suffering from coronavirus is contagious before showing the symptoms: “Thus a Frenchman who sees an Asian man with a mask is afraid because of the different interpretation of wearing a mask. It is therefore essential to make the message understood by the different communities to avoid these kinds of problems. »Not sure, however, that this is enough to remove the amalgams in the street as on social networks.
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