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Racism in Germany: A Chinese-American reckoning
In a personal essay, DW's Beina Xu reflects on a coronavirus-related racist attack and confronts Germany's — and Europe's — deeply problematic idea of race.
I hadn’t seen him coming.
- Beina Xu
- Deutsche Welle
The man was short, stocky, roughly my father’s age.
Suddenly he was standing before me as I sat having a drink on a bench.
He pointed at the face mask crumpled in his other fist.
“This is shit,” he informed me. I blinked out of confusion.
“Corona comes from China,” he clarified.
“It’s shit, what you brought here.”
My first thought was of the…