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Othering stereotypes: Refugees, mainly Chinese, in the ruins of Inchon, a port that was invaded by United States forces during the Korean War. According to Edward Said, the binary relationship of strong-West and weak- East is reinforced through racialised cultural stereotypes. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images)
ANTI CHINESE

Why we need to dismantle the East-West hyphen

Hyphenated identities: Why can’t I be just ‘South African’; why do I need to be ‘South- African Chinese’?

  • Loraine Law Yuen
6 min read