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UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA CAWANGAN KELANTAN
KAMPUS KOTA BHARU
MGT538
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS
TOPIC:
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
REFLECTION PAPER
(RACISM AND COVID-19)
LECTURER’S NAME:
RUHANI BINTI MUHAMMAD
PREPARED BY:
MUHAMMAD FAIZZUDIN KHAN BIN NORKHAN
2019717653
BA240 2B

INTRODUCTION
Racism has many forms and can happen in many places. It includes prejudice, discrimination or
hatred directed against someone on behave of their color, ethnicity or national origin. People often
associate racism with abusive or harassing acts. It need not involve violent or intimidating behavior,
though. Take the name-calling racial and the jokes. Or consider cases where people might be
excluded from communities or events because of where they come from.
Additionally, racism can be revealed through the actions of people and their attitudes. It can
also be reflected in the institutions and systems. But it may not be revealed at all at times. Not all
racism is clear to see. For example, COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health
Organization (WHO)
.
Much remains unknown, but as the virus that caused this disease has spread,
misinformation and xenophobia also have spread. This has unfortunately followed a predictable
pattern of connecting people with diseases.
The pandemic has reinvigorated the old stereotyping of Chinese people and the perceptions
of Chinese food, including the notion that they eat pets. A US senator recently said that the "Chinese
virus" originated from a "culture in which people eat bats and snakes and dogs" his statement
reflects an old belief system that links race and disease. Because we have never demolished the
assumption, it's pointless to warn people to accept race as a social construct. Moreover, it is this
belief that allows us to claim that COVID-19 is a "Chinese disease" and take some comfort in
blaming them when there is no more comfort.