For Asians in Australia, a collective memory of racial trauma

Charmaine Celine, a Eurasian-Chinese student attending La Trobe University in Melbourne’s Bundoora, said she had been grappling with feelings of inferiority and embarrassment over her race amid the coronavirus pandemic.As infections rose across Australia – it has just over 7,100 cases across its eight states and territories while 103 people have died – strangers who she saw in public made comments such as “go back to your own country” to the 21-year-old and accused her of “stealing” their jobs…

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