

Such behavior creates a hostile environment for researchers of Asian ancestry such as myself. and has been brought to the forefront amid the COVID outbreak.


In the summer of 2020 some people posted a listing for a fake Asian restaurant near my university on Google Maps and Instagram, with a name insulting to Asians and a menu that included horrible-sounding items such as “mouse tail salad” and “marinated ostrich foreheads.” The fake name, menu and reviews-even if they were intended as a joke-were all despicable examples of anti-Asian racism that has always been present in the U.S.
