As an eco-minimalist, Su Yige has developed an environmentally friendly lifestyle for the past three years while studying in Canada. 1, her eco-friendly actions have often led to the 23-year-old being 2 as Japanese. At first, she believed it was a result of similarities in Asians'
3 in the eyes of many Westerners, but after long observation she has 4 that it is based on "environment-related racism (种族偏见) 5 Chinese people".
That conclusion 6 her to create an environmental video blog as a platform to 7this noticeable racism. The idea of 8 an environmental blog came when she 9 to find many examples of such content on Chinese social media platforms, though it is common on the 10in the West.
She probably would not have put the idea into 11 so quickly if she hadn't been mistaken as Japanese 12 in March last year, when she was cleaning up an area filled with litter while taking a walk.
A Canadian man, who stopped running and 13 her, asked if she was from Japan. Dressed in regular clothes, she could find no 14 for the mistake. "I suddenly realized that it's 15
to break the prejudice (偏见)," she said.
However, she wants to keep her environmental blog 16 to make full use of her spare time, and hopes to 17 with vloggers (视频博主) by sharing her personal experiences to make her platform more 18.
What drives her to 19 the time-consuming activity that provides no 20 benefit is the hope of stopping the longstanding environmental prejudice against Chinese people.
