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WEEKLY X-FILES
May 9, 2020: Let’s travel to Indonesia and see how the first COVID-19 victims faced slander for being prostitutes simply because they were dancers and interacted with foreigners. This week in X-Files:
May 1, 2020: As xenophobia runs rampant during the coronavirus, we take a look at how Singapore has been keeping xenophobia at bay. This week in X-Files:
April 25, 2020: While Asians are being discriminated against around the world as a form of COVID-19 xenophobia, thousands of Africans in Southern China are being mistreated the same way. This week in X-Files:
April 17, 2020: Website just launched by ASAP to track pandemic hate speech and xenophobic incidents. In medical terms, “allostatic load” caused by bigotry attacks lowers immunity and harms the most vulnerable of our society - the sick, the kids and the elderly. This week in X-Files:
April 12, 2020: Scores of Africans are left homeless in one of China’s largest cities - Guangzhou. Is COVID-19 openly accepted as a reason for xenophobia? X-Files Special Easter/Passover Edition
April 4, 2020: PBS: 61% of Asian Americans who reported xenophobic attacks as a result of COVID-19 are not of Chinese descent; Nearly 70% of doctors saving lives are Asian Americans. This pandemic will end as all humans work together and do our part. But will the pandemic of xenophobia end soon afterwards? This week in X-Files from PBS:
March 28, 2020: This week in X-Files: The New York Attorney General has set up a hotline for victims to report xenophobia cases:
March 6, 2020: Over 100 Hong Kong restaurants won’t serve people from China (not Taiwan, just China) - another piece of evidence that xenophobia is far more evil than other common forms of discrimination. This week in X-Files:
Feb 28, 2020: In Italy, two Chinese tourists were spat on by a group of children in Venice, and two Asian people were verbally abused by a passerby in Florence who called them “disgusting” and “filthy”. Let’s look at the silent experiment by one Italian-Chinese, Massimiliano Martigli Jiang, and feel the love in the world that still surrounds us. This week in X-Files:
Feb 22, 2020: This weekly in X-Files, we moan the death two days ago of nine innocent immigrants who were murdered as a result of xenophobia in Germany.
Feb 13, 2020: Weekly X-Files [Valentine’s Edition 2020]: The Scandinavians are consistently ranked the wealthiest, most educated and happiest people on this planet. By looking at this new SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) ad, we can see why... perhaps those gluttonous with pride among us are wasting too much time on xenophobic hate, instead of accepting everything foreign with love, curiosity and humility? Here is the clip “What is truly Scandinavian?”
Happy Valentine’s, SAXonites!
Feb 8, 2020: In this week’s X-Files, we travel around the world to observe mushrooming xenophobia as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak.
Jan 31, 2020: Does a deadly virus bring out the best or the worst in human xenophobic tendencies? Over 200 Chinese lives have been lost in less than a month.
Nearly ten thousand people in China and hundreds overseas are infected. No casualties outside of China yet, except for those under xenophobic or outright racist attacks. Today, we travel to France to see how French Vietnamese and Cambodians are facing public discrimination purely because they look Chinese. In contrast, UK boarding schools are taking precautionary fore-warnings against any xenophobic behavior.
Jan 25, 2020: In 2008, the American housing market collapse led to a global financial tsunami that wiped out $5 trillion in asset values, bankrupted Greece and Iceland, and caused over 6 million families to lose their homes in USA alone. Almost immediately, “foreigners and the poor” were blamed in the knee-jerk reaction of finger-pointing. In this week’s X-Files, we look at this US government study by the FCIC that exonerates the unfairly accused:
Dec 20, 2019: In this last edition of 2019, we travel to Latin America and try to understand why there is growing threat of xenophobia in South America against Venezuelans. Wish everyone happy holidays and a wonderful 2020! Go SAX!
Dec 15, 2019: In this week’s X-Files, we travel to Hong Kong to witness how a cloud of hate crimes driven by xenophobia smothers the legitimacy of protests in one of the world’s wealthiest cities. What makes Chinese people in Hong Kong hate other Chinese people from mainland China?
Dec 7, 2019: We seldom hear the word “xenophilic”. Let’s learn from human’s best friend: They are the rare species that is actually xenophilic!
Nov 22, 2019: This week, we travel to Germany and see how xenophobic political parties like the AfD are spreading inaccurate information in order to propagate xenophobia
Nov 15, 2019: This week in X-Files, we travel down under to New Zealand and see how returning natives could become subjected to xenophobia in their own lands. Are we all victims of hyper-diversity?
Nov 9, 2019: We travel to Hong Kong this week to see how escalated xenophobia has turned local Chinese kids against mainland Chinese kids in one of the wealthiest societies in the world.
Nov 1, 2019: President Obama has great advice to share about what “woke” means. When we fight against xenophobia and all forms of bigotry, what does it mean to stay “woke”? Accepting or forgiving other’s flaws perhaps? Let’s hear from Mr. Obama himself.
Humans are “flawed” and “messy”. Honest and good people make mistakes and/or say the wrong things. Let's educate, clarify and forgive? We are stronger together no matter our political or religious differences - from your friends at a nonpartisan SAX. Happy autumn, guys!
Oct 25, 2019: Xenophobia in South Africa affects overall investment sentiments in all of Africa; when we discriminate with xenophobia, all of us look bad too.
Oct 18, 2019: Scandinavia has long been regarded as one of the most tolerant or least xenophobic regions in the world. So why is xenophobia on the rise? No more labels of alt-right or alt-left, this research directly ties social insecurity with xenophobia. Hence, xenophobia is a truly nonpartisan form of bigotry rooted in cognitive human insecurity. Do you agree?
Oct 11, 2019: Today we travel to Australia to see how the land of cute kangaroos and koalas tackle the social virus of xenophobia.
Oct 4, 2019: Why is xenophobia scary? Because it is hatred generated from a form of bigotry that is race-blind, color-blind and gender-blind. This week in X-Files, we look at recent xenophobia in Hong Kong against a Chinese American reporter who happens to speak Mandarin.
Sep 28, 2019: This week we travel to Germany to see how xenophobia is affecting the local scientific community.
Sep 20, 2019: How bad can xenophobia get? The answer: very bad... like losing your lives in violence, fleeing your home as the mob burns down your house and cars bad. In this week’s X-Files, we travel to South Africa, the Rainbow Nation, to see just a few weeks ago how vicious and potent this color-blind, race-blind, religion-blind, gender-blind form of lethal bigotry attacked with its serpentine fangs.
May 17, 2019: This week, we head to South Korea to see how they handle xenophobia.
May 10, 2019: This week, we return to Great Britain to see how they tackle xenophobia scientifically.
May 3, 2019: This week, we hear from former President Obama on why travel matters!
April 26, 2019: This week, we travel to Russia to witness a rise in xenophobia.
April 12, 2019: This week, we return to France and see how scientifically they approach xenophobia!
April 5, 2019: Let’s travel to Asia together and discover how Japan stands on the topic of xenophobia!
March 1, 2019: This week, we show how France tackles xenophobia! Enjoy!!
February 21, 2019: Weekly “X files” launched! Hey guys, we will be sharing weekly articles from around the world on topics regarding xenophobia. Feel free to share your thoughts on the forum or message us directly. First article of this week came from Great Britain. Enjoy!
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