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The Global Asian Diaspora: Why There is an Apparent Lack of Solidarity in Overseas Asian Communities
Opinion, History, Culture Edmond Duong Opinion, History, Culture Edmond Duong

The Global Asian Diaspora: Why There is an Apparent Lack of Solidarity in Overseas Asian Communities

In February, the world was made aware of the spread of a novel disease plaguing China...Some people living in the West shrugged it off as fear-mongering by the media and most saw it as nothing but a faraway problem — something that did not require their immediate concern and action...Only when the disease had been declared epidemic in Italy did it become apparent to the people in the West that it could affect their people; their kin.

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