In 2003, the SARS outbreak almost ruined the Chinese communities in Canada. Now a 23-year-old masters student at the University of Toronto, Ye was only around eight years old when the SARS outbreak happened but he already began to encounter racism at his school. “I remember when the other kid on the playground would tell me to go away because ‘all Chinese people had SARS,’” Ye posted on Twitter. “But thinking back to it, when kids told me to get away from them because I was Chinese, that was racism. At the time of the SARS outbreak, cellphones and texting were still at a rudimentary phase.

Source: Huffington Post January 30, 2020 03:33 UTC