🏮Happy Yuan Xiao (Spring Lantern Festival Day)! As a Singaporean Chinese living in Singapore, I am fortunate to never have encountered racism in my home country. We celebrate Lunar New Year plus festivals from all four major ethnic groups. I am able to eat all the tang yuan, ketupat and samosa anytime I want. But the story changes when I visit other non-Asian cities...
I have been sneered at, with vulgarities strewn on my face by local passerbys and outrightly rejected by cafe wait staff & mall cashiers during my travels to the US, UK and Europe, just because my skin color is different from theirs.💛
I stand in solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community. My heart breaks when I see news of our elderly being the target of violent hate crimes. Don’t stay silent! #StopAsianHate message needs to be heard, not just in the US but everywhere else in the world too.
Racism and xenophobia should have no place in our society. Learn more : @stopaapihate
#standforasians #stopaapihate #inclusivity #asianarehumanstoo
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