Coming soon to Taiwan? Rise of xenophobia towards Westerners

[Marco]

@mochigome

When you’re an expat, not at home, you are a guest. You’re welcome as long as you cooperate. This is not colonialism anymore.

There is a direct implication of welcoming somebody in your house, or region, or country and the consequences can be massive as they can kill your kids or spread a virus. So it’s understandable that people who are, in general, relatively bad at self-control (like all of us), ill informed or just idiots become a bit crazy when pressured by the current state of the world.

There’s probably an anti-Italian sentiment in Europe currently. Switzerland didn’t close its border soon enough, Italians flocked in, see where they are now. Italians from the South probably hate Italians from the North just because they took the night trains right before the lock-down of Lombardy and infected the whole country.

There is that thing called in-group favoritism. It’s just a normal self-protective behavior. It’s currently exacerbated because of the situation. You’ll have to live with that for a while I am afraid.

This is a democracy and a country that favours human rights. There are ZERO excuses for xenophobia.