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     What is your favorite painting? I know, we are not living through the Renaissance where art was considered one of the most significant fields of human life and these days not many people incorporate art in their life routine. But, still, I would like to insist asking you: do you have your favorite painting which somehow made you to fall in love immediately? And by painting, just to make sure that we are on the same page, I am talking about the paintings painted on canvas that you see when you go to museums like Museo del Prado and MoMA.      As I said, the importance of art in our lives is fading more and more as time goes on. Unlike our ancestors who almost revered artistic beauty, we are more... occupied--let's put it this way--by other things. Nowadays, when we meet someone who knows a lot of art pieces, we almost automatically associate her with adjectives such as 'posh', 'elegant', 'sophisticated', or 'luxurious'. Art museums and galleries ...

If you are using at least one social media platform like Instagram and Twitter, you perhaps have encountered the following hashtags: #asianhate, #stopasianhate, or #proudtobeasian. Because the recent pandemic disclosed the ugly reality of our society--hidden racism against Asians--you perhaps think that the so-called AsianHate is a pretty recent trend that had begun because of the COVID-19 crisis. Well, then keep on reading the following stories I am planning to tell you right now. When I was young, I was in the metro station in Paris with my mom and dad, who are both South Koreans as I am. It was around 2010, so South Korea was less known by Europeans than it is nowadays. When we stepped into the metro, everyone--I am not even exaggerating--on that car looked at my family at the same time and many of them did not stop staring for more than a minute. When we sat down together, some people around us immediately moved their seats even though they apparently did not arrive at their destin...