The pandemic brought the moment of “things have got to change”. The xenophobia triggered by “China virus” or “Chinese virus” and all kinds of conspiracy theories caused collateral damages on the Asian American communities. Many anti-Asian American incidents happened across the country. I feel a new version of Chinese exclusion law coming up. That is very crazy. However, at the local community, I have so many friendly neighbors and friends of different ethnic backgrounds. It is very difficult for me to reconcile two different worlds (media vs neighborhood, national and local, politics vs community).
