ABSTRACT

Following the global outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), different countries took different approaches to informing their citizens about the pandemic and planned local public health initiatives. We use online participant panels in 4 affected countries – the US, Spain, Italy, and New Zealand – to explore the extent to which prejudice to Asian ethnic groups differed in these countries during the first wave of the pandemic. We argue that New Zealand’s lower scores on most indices of prejudice can be understood in part due to New Zealand’s cohesive, centralized government response to the pandemic that started early, included clear stages of response, and was led consistently by an a-political, public health and facts-base framing.

摘要

在2019年全球冠状病毒疾病（COVID-19）爆发之后，不同的国家采用了不同的方法来向其公民宣传大流行病并计划了地方公共卫生计划。我们使用了四个受影响国家（美国，西班牙，意大利和新西兰）的在线参与者小组，探讨了在第一波大流行期间这些国家对亚洲种族的偏见程度有所不同。我们认为，新西兰在大多数偏见指数上得分较低的部分原因可以理解，原因是新西兰对大流行的凝聚力，集中的政府应对行动很早就开始了，包括明确的应对阶段，并且始终由a-政治，公共机构领导健康和基于事实的框架。