Sinophobia as the disease and palaeopathology as the cure: response to Adja et al.

We have very much enjoyed the correspondence by Adja et al.1on the social and xenophobic stigma suffered by the Italian Chinese community after the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, which later became a pandemic. Building on their correct assessment of the case, we would like to endeavour to offer some explanations for the xenophobic reaction described by the authors and propose a potential educational solution to it.