Face, Identity, Nationalism, and Internationalism --------Two Female International Students’ Experience of Exile During COVID-19

• In Event: International Students and Experiences

Abstract

Face is one representation of identity entailing where we're from ((inter)nation or ethnicity). Blind nationalism leads to hatred and animosity towards BLM and Anti-Asian racism. Innocent participants and their children suffered panic and trauma with intense relations between home countries and U. S. and COVID-19. We are other people’s children (Delpit, 1995) and exiles in-between (He, 2006, 2010, 2021a, b), but showing our faces should never be an excuse to be prejudiced and hurt in hatred incidents. We need a space for “intellectual awakening”, cultivating a “robust civic life” (Nussbaum, 1997) that seeks to “make all human beings part of our community of dialogue and concern” (p.9) and a space of contradictions and complexities” (He. 2010, p.220).
Racism is a disease that perpetuates misanthropy in society where our body, mind, and soul get hurt. The 21st century is not an era of nationalism versus internationalism, but nationalism coexisting with internationalism peacefully.

Authors

• Ru Li, Maynard Jackson High School

• Mayra Garcia-Diaz, Georgia Southern University