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My best friend was born in the US to Vietnamese parents. Even before the pandemic, every so often he would tell me of how someone would try and speak Chinese to him. Then another customer would ask why he isn't responding to them or something similar. He'd have to explain that he doesn't even speak Chinese, that he was born in the US, and barely even speaks the same language as his parents.

Since the pandemic he's had people come into the shop he works at and become very angry at him because he asked them to put a mask on or pull it up over their nose. I fear it'll reach a point where he'll get racially abused or worse.

Needless to say that any kind my thoughts and feelings on the matter aren't great. People are so quick to blame others without fact-checking or doing proper research. Instead, people look for the nearest lookalike to blame for something they didn't even do. Anger doesn't even begin to describe how I feel.