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Hong Kong's fourth wave of coronavirus brings tide of racism


Hong Kong s fourth wave of coronavirus brings tide of racism
Theodora Yu and Shibani Mahtani, The Washington Post
Feb. 11, 2021
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HONG KONG - A man of Nepali descent said he was denied a job after an employer saw his complexion. A woman said people recoiled from her in an elevator, apparently disgusted. A child was turned away from a school that cited a preference for locals.
Racism, especially against South Asians, is not a new phenomenon in Hong Kong, whose population is 92% ethnic Chinese. But a wave of incidents during the pandemic - including comments from an official who suggested minorities were spreading the coronavirus - is bringing prejudice into sharp relief in this city of astronomical housing prices and extreme inequality. ....

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