How the coronavirus pandemic is fueling ethnic hatred
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, several organizations, including the United Nations and Human Rights Watch, have warned that it has unleashed a global wave of hate speech and xenophobic attacks. In many countries, from the United States and Europe to Brazil and Kenya, people of Asian descent have been targeted with discrimination, verbal abuse and xenophobic attacks. And around the world, religious minorities, migrant workers and foreigners are being targeted as well.
In Asia and Africa, fast-growing megacities have attracted waves of new urban migrants of different ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds from those of established city residents. We wanted to know whether new threats — like the pandemic and climate change — would undermine tolerance and leave cities more divided and dangerous.… Seguir leyendo »
