I Left The United States to Reclaim My Chinese Identity

The coronavirus pandemic exposed the sham of the ‘model minority’ myth

Ani Hao
ZORA
Published in
5 min readApr 1, 2020

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A photo of the back of a young Asian woman walking through a local market street in Hong Kong.
Photo: d3sign/Getty Images

TThe “model minority” myth that supposedly privileges Asians in the United States compared to other social and ethnic minorities has been exposed for what it is: a sham of thinly veiled tolerance that fell apart at the hint of a threat. The coronavirus

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Ani Hao
ZORA
Writer for

Feminist journalist, editor, media consultant and DJ. Founder of Agora Juntas (Rio de Janeiro), currently based in Hong Kong.