When Nicole arrived at her hostel in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi on a warm February afternoon, exhausted but excited, she presented her Chinese passport at the check-in counter and was promptly told that her booking had been cancelled and she could not stay there.
«I asked the reason for it, and they said, ‘All the rooms are booked now.’ And I checked immediately and they had four rooms available,» she explained.
When Nicole – whose name has been changed upon request – booked a ten-day vacation in Vietnam from January 26 to February 6, she expected a lively adventure. But like many Chinese people living, working, studying and travelling in Southeast Asia in recent weeks, she has experienced rejection and hostility as sinophobia has grown following the coronavirus outbreak.
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It’s a common phenomenon … With outbreaks and epidemics along human history, we’ve always tried to vilify certain subsets of the population
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Finally, I realised we do the same thing to the Wuhanese Nicole, a Chinese woman recently in Vietnam
This article was written by SAMANTHA McCABE
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