STOP ASIAN HATE
in Europ
(Artist edition)
HOW DID IT START :
Stop Asian Hate is the name of several anti-Asian-violence rallies which have been held across the United States in 2021 in response to racism against Asian Americans related to the COVID-19 pandemic, or in short is a response to the hatred. The slogan Stop Asian Hate is being used all around the world to show solidarity as the Asian community. Many rallies occurred in the wake of a mass shooting that occurred at three Atlanta spas in which eight people were killed, six of whom were Asian women. However, the movement first began to gain traction after the killing of Vicha Ratanapakdee nearly two months earlier.
For almost a year, the hashtag "Black Lives Matter" has been on everyone's lips. But people with Asian backgrounds are also increasingly becoming victims of violence and discrimination. With the hashtag "#StopAsianHate" and a day of action, those affected are drawing attention to their situation.
At the latest since the "Black Lives Matter" movement became present last year due to the murder of the African-American George Floyd, debates about racism and the right way to deal with people are increasingly in the spotlight again. Specifically, this mostly concerns people whose skin colour is not white and whose ethnic background extends to the African continent. But it is not only People of Colour (PoC) who have to deal with prejudice and racism.
2020
Warum gibt es asian hate in Deutschland?
Asiatischer Rassismus ist keine alleinige Begleiterscheinung der Corona Pandemie. Er existiert bereits seit der deutschen Kolonialzeit. Kaiser Wilhelm II sprach schon um 1900 von der „gelben Gefahr“. Auch die vermehrte Einwanderung von asiatischen Vertragskräften in den 1950er und 1970er Jahren in die damalige DDR führte zu anti-asiatischen Übergriffen. Bis heute berichten Asiaten in Deutschland von erschreckenden Erlebnissen.
Dabei gibt es zwei verschiedene Formen von anti-asiatischem Rassismus in der Bundesrepublik. Häufig werden Menschen mit asiatischen Wurzeln, im Gegensatz zu anderen (post)migrantischen Gruppen, als „VorzeigeimmigrantInnen“ beschrieben. Auf der anderen Seite werden sie oft auch als homogene Masse dargestellt, von der eine Gefahr für die europäische Mehrheitsgesellschaft ausgehe. Dabei werden alle Menschen aus dem asiatischen Raum, egal ob japanisch, vietnamesisch oder chinesisch als ein Typus wahrgenommen.
Des Weiteren zeigt sich eine deutliche Unterrepräsentation asiatischer Charaktere in deutschen Film- und Serienproduktionen. Die existierenden Rollen entsprechen dabei häufig den rassifizierten Klischees der sexualisierten, exotisierten und fleißigen asiatischen Frau. Oder dem desexualisierten, feminisierten und intelligenten asiatischen Mann.
Auch in Deutschland haben sich die Meldungen über anti-asiatische Übergriffe bei der Antidiskriminierungsstelle im Jahr 2020 im Vergleich zu 2019 verdoppelt.
Da es bislang kaum Untersuchungen zu anti-asiatischem Rassismus in Deutschland gegeben hat können die aktuellen Studien nicht mit vergangenen verglichen werden. Doch die enthaltenen Aussagen von Betroffenen bezeugen den Anstieg körperlicher Übergriffe und die vermehrte soziale Isolation asiatischer Bürger. In einer Studie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin gaben 80 Prozent der über 700 asiatisch gelesenen Teilnehmenden an, dass sie zwischen Oktober und Dezember 2020 verbale und körperliche Angriffe erlebt hätten.
Eine weitere Studie belegte die anti-asiatische Einstellung der „weißen“ Bevölkerung: 15 Prozent der Befragten stimmten der Aussage zu, dass asiatisch gelesene Menschen für die rasante Verbreitung der Corona Pandemie in Deutschland verantwortlich seien.
SELF CONFESHION...
YACHIN HUANG from TAIWAN
-WestDeutsches Tanztheater (Germany)
-Text 1
Has Corona ever been bullied by discriminatory words or physical behavior from passersby?
If yes, please explain what it was?
-Text 1.2
Have you experienced any discriminatory words or physical/behavioral bullying in the workplace or in your life?
(can use dance, audio, or text to present)
-Text 2
Say a short sentence or a word if you can say it in front of them
YACHIN HUANG from TAIWAN
-WestDeutsches Tanztheater (Germany)
-Text 1
Has Corona ever been bullied by discriminatory words or physical behavior from passersby?
If yes, please explain what it was?
-Text 1.2
Have you experienced any discriminatory words or physical/behavioral bullying in the workplace or in your life?
(can use dance, audio, or text to present)
-Text 2
Say a short sentence or a word if you can say it in front of them
CONFESHIONS from
other artists in EU :
-Text 1
Has Corona ever been bullied by discriminatory words or physical behavior from passersby?
If yes, please explain what it was
-Text 1.2 (optional)
Have you experienced any discriminatory words or physical/behavioral bullying in the workplace or in your life?
-Text 2
Say a short sentence or a word if you can say it in front of them
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Jihee Kim from KOREA
- Folkwang Tanzstudio
(Germany)
-Text1
other artists in EU :
-Text 1
Has Corona ever been bullied by discriminatory words or physical behavior from passersby?
If yes, please explain what it was
-Text 1.2 (optional)
Have you experienced any discriminatory words or physical/behavioral bullying in the workplace or in your life?
-Text 2
Say a short sentence or a word if you can say it in front of them

Jihee Kim from KOREA
- Folkwang Tanzstudio
(Germany)
-Text1
Beginning of corona pandemic had quite alot of discrimination to Asian. Even that time just the asian peoples weared mask for the other peoples and alot of peoples were very rude to asian.-Text 2
That time i saw alot of news and alot of Facebook that alot of asian peoples need help or going back to hometown because it was really scary. I mean now is somehow calm down but still i hope don't happen this kind of discrimination anymore...
As a foreigner we already hard to live in an other countries and already alot of difficult things we have to live in Europe so please stop discrimination to asian and also to the other foreigner too.
TUAN LY
hat vietnamesische Wurzeln und ist im Saarland geboren und aufgewachsen
-Landesbühnen Sachsen (Germany)
Text 1:
Ja, kurz vor dem allerersten Lockdown in Deutschland gab es Ereignisse, die ich auf die Corona-Pandemie zurückführen kann. Das war noch zu einem Zeitpunkt, als es noch keine Maskenpflicht gab und als wir noch kaum Informationen über den Virus hatten.
Eine junge Frau hat mich im Bus erschrocken angeschaut und hat sich umgesetzt. Ein anderes Mal hat sich ein junger Mann, auch im öffentlichen Verkehr, ziemlich umständlich von mir wegbewegt.
Solche Erfahrungen musste ich bisher in Deutschland nicht machen.
Es hatte sich jedoch auch innerlich bei mir etwas verändert.
Ich war nervös das Haus zu verlassen, um einkaufen oder auf Arbeit zu gehen, da ich mich nicht solchem Verhalten aussetzen wollte.
Es ist schmerzhaft solch irrationale Ablehnung auf Grund der ethnischen Herkunft, der Hautfarbe, zu erfahren.
Seit Einführung strengerer Corona Maßnahmen fühle ich mich weniger marginalisiert, da es scheint, als ob die Gesellschaft erkannte, dass wir alle gleichsam betroffen sind

Beomseok Jeong from KOREA
- Hochschule für Musik und Tanz
- Compound Company
(Germany)
-Text 1
No, i never had some bad situations or bad experiences but i heard some bad situations from my friends, like they were coming to my friends and saying “i will never get corona” or just generell racism things
-Text 2
can we just live together without hating someone, who actually did nothing to you?

YUN TING from TAIWAN-
-Poetic Disasters Club (Nederland)

some notes about Reflections on those days of discrimination ...



KRIS NICHOLLS from TAIWAN/ AUSTRALIA-
-AURA dance theatre (Lithuania)
我在corona期間沒有遇到這種行為,都只有聽朋友說或者他們po instagram才看到。誠實說我對這些問題沒有什麼可以回答,因為我沒有體驗過這些歧視或霸凌。
但是我能說的是:
dont think any race has a privilege. being racist is already wrong, but treating the races who already live under pressure with extra care can also be wrong. dont let the wrong societies decide for you how you should interact with HUMANS with different cultures and races. dont share the difference, be the difference.

MING HUNG from TAIWAN-
-Stadttheater Bremerhaven (Germany)
Audio link:
(Content Translated From Audio)
-Text 1
Has Corona ever been bullied by discriminatory words or physical behavior from passersby?
If yes, please explain what it was:
When I was walking on the streat, A man saw that I was wearing the mask, so he drag her mom together run away from me , and then he try to save people who also walking on the streat.
Also once a guy accidentally just coughed at me, but whn he was in the front of me, there was nothing happened, like he was healthy, but he still coughed when he passed by me...
-Text 1.2 (optional)
Have you experienced any discriminatory words or physical/behavioral bullying in the workplace or in your life?
No, actually at my working enviroment , colleges are very nice and friendly, even they heard my story, they complain it for me : why people are so evil like that??? and they hate people do this as well.
-Text 2
Say a short sentence or a word if you can say it in front of them
I hope that the discrimination or verbal and physical bullying that they do begins and ends with corona.
I hope that the rest of the world will be more intelligent and sensible and will not differentiate human beings by race.
-Stadttheater Bremerhaven (Germany)
https://soundcloud.com/ya-chin-huang/sah-eu-3-questions-from-ming?si=f8516286aa0e40bba0b6827cd8cadce0
Audio link:
(Content Translated From Audio)
-Text 1
Has Corona ever been bullied by discriminatory words or physical behavior from passersby?
If yes, please explain what it was:
When I was walking on the streat, A man saw that I was wearing the mask, so he drag her mom together run away from me , and then he try to save people who also walking on the streat.
Also once a guy accidentally just coughed at me, but whn he was in the front of me, there was nothing happened, like he was healthy, but he still coughed when he passed by me...
-Text 1.2 (optional)
Have you experienced any discriminatory words or physical/behavioral bullying in the workplace or in your life?
No, actually at my working enviroment , colleges are very nice and friendly, even they heard my story, they complain it for me : why people are so evil like that??? and they hate people do this as well.
-Text 2
Say a short sentence or a word if you can say it in front of them
I hope that the discrimination or verbal and physical bullying that they do begins and ends with corona.
I hope that the rest of the world will be more intelligent and sensible and will not differentiate human beings by race.
Paula Pau from Malaysia
- Ben J. Riepe Kompanie (Germany)
https://soundcloud.com/ya-chin-huang/sah-eu-3-questions-from-pau?si=aa4de507613c41868d5739f4cd0edcc8
Audio link:
(Content Translated From Audio)
I think it happened as always ,
but it happened more frequently during this corona period.
I was harassed for about three weeks in a row, and people kept shouting "corona! corona !corona" at me when they saw me wearing a mask.
And I was shouted "ching chung chong" more than once on my way home at night.
someone even come into me and shout this in front of my
face!
But sometimes if the situation is really exaggerated, of course I will also fight back!
___
And oftenly people will not ask you where you come from,
but directly ask you : Are you Japanese?
I found this is a bit disrescepectful and Naive...
___
There are also some people who make fun of our eyes,
which called "schlitzaugen" in German.
and i hate people do that gesture (two finger pull the end of their eye ti make it look like schlitzaugen)
___
I remember one year at the carnival, I saw someone dressed up as an "Asian" with makeup, and I felt uncomfortable that my race was being objectified as a costume.
- Ben J. Riepe Kompanie (Germany)
https://soundcloud.com/ya-chin-huang/sah-eu-3-questions-from-pau?si=aa4de507613c41868d5739f4cd0edcc8
Audio link:
(Content Translated From Audio)
I think it happened as always ,
but it happened more frequently during this corona period.
I was harassed for about three weeks in a row, and people kept shouting "corona! corona !corona" at me when they saw me wearing a mask.
And I was shouted "ching chung chong" more than once on my way home at night.
someone even come into me and shout this in front of my
face!
But sometimes if the situation is really exaggerated, of course I will also fight back!
___
And oftenly people will not ask you where you come from,
but directly ask you : Are you Japanese?
I found this is a bit disrescepectful and Naive...
___
There are also some people who make fun of our eyes,
which called "schlitzaugen" in German.
and i hate people do that gesture (two finger pull the end of their eye ti make it look like schlitzaugen)
___
I remember one year at the carnival, I saw someone dressed up as an "Asian" with makeup, and I felt uncomfortable that my race was being objectified as a costume.
Shawn Wu from TAIWAN-
-Gauthierdance (Germany)

https://soundcloud.com/ya-chin-huang/sha-eu-3-shawn?si=bb68142fa51741ae91a02b6e73726f21&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
KRIS NICHOLLS from TAIWAN/ AUSTRALIA-
particepation :
Tuan Ly -Tänzer der Landesbühnen
This project is sponsored by the state government

recource:
https://lawpilots.com/de-de/compliance/stop-asian-hate/