China News Service, June 10. According to a comprehensive report from the Canadian "Sing Tao Daily", recently, a Chinese woman in Toronto, Canada, was insulted by her neighbors with racist verbal insults in her backyard. As a result, hundreds of people came forward to support her online.
According to blogTO, Ms. Zhang posted in the South Etobicoke community group on social media on June 6, saying: "After living in this wonderful community for 6 years, we won the first prize last night. '——Experienced anti-Asian racism firsthand."
Ms. Zhang said that at 3 am, after trying to tell the neighbor next door to end a gathering without social distancing for the third time, a man told her that he "does not want to be manipulated by the damn Chinese."
She has lived in Canada for 28 years and now lives with her parents and two children.
Ms. Zhang said on the post: "In the past year, I have seen a lot of love, compassion and supportive actions in this group. I know we are better than this and have done a lot of amazing things together. . I am very grateful to this group for its continued support for raising public awareness and educating the public.” She asked others to forward this message at the end of the article.
In less than 48 hours, people in the community supported her. Nearly 700 people expressed their spiritual support, and more than 170 people responded with anger, sadness and friendship, such as "Nami Taobigu does not have such a person, poor. Disgusting people""Terror and disgusting behavior""You should feel safe in this place. It is so sad to encounter such a thing now."
Ms. Zhang responded to the comment: "I am very encouraged to see the support of all of you. You made me understand that hatred and racism have absolutely no place here."
She also clarified: "This person has just moved into the next door. It is a rental property. He absolutely cannot reflect our community."
She also mentioned on social media that the police told her that anti-Asian hate crimes were on the rise, and they had just arrested a person who physically assaulted an Asian woman the night before.
The next morning, the police came and asked Ms. Zhang to choose to prosecute or deal with the person only by warning. She chose the latter, but the police did file a case on the incident and told her if there was anything in the future. If it happens, call 911 immediately.
The police also walked over and told the man not to talk to Ms. Zhang and her family again.
Ms. Zhang told blogTO: “He has been denying and knows nothing about what he has done.” She did not receive an apology from him before or after the police talked to him.
Ms. Zhang told blogTO: "For us, the best solution is to let him receive a sufficient education and reform. We need at least his sincere apology."
"We are also contacting the landlord to see if they can help us get rid of this person. Given what happened recently in London, Ontario, knowing that there is a prejudice living next door is alarming."