THE EFFECT OF OFFICIAL INTERVENTION ON REDUCING THE USE OF POTENTIALLY DISCRIMINATORY LANGUAGE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN CHINA

The effect of official intervention on reducing the use of potentially discriminatory language during the COVID-19 pandemic in China

Abstract This study used the Baidu Index to analyze searches using discriminatory language toward the source of the outbreak Mugs during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.The study found a strong correlation between official intervention and a reduction in searches using discriminatory language.Following the official naming of the virus b

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Buddhist Environmentalism as Seen through Religious Change

This article considers the disagreement between scholars of Buddhism around whether the tradition is or is not amenable to environmental concerns.It identifies the gap between the two sides as arising from a problem in how historical-critical methods divorce moral concepts from materiality in the study of religious history.This paper considers pati

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