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Poll: Discrimination against Asian Americans is rampant but ignored

Author:     Hope King
Source:     Axios
Publication Date:     December 29, 2023
 Link: Poll: Discrimination against Asian Americans is rampant but ignored
Stephan:  

White nationalism is having a serious impact on the Asian community, as this Pew Research Center study reveals. White nationalism, I see, as a form of mental illness afflicting mostly, but not entirely, low education, low IQ Whites who see other races as a threat to their wellbeing. They think they are being replaced, but when you ask them what that means, they just babble MAGAt fantasies. Fear not rational thought dominates their thinking. And their response is often violence.

Asian Americans continue to face widespread discrimination, which is exacerbated by fears that the broader public doesn’t particularly care, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

Why it matters: Asian Americans are among the fastest growing racial or ethnic group in the country. But Asian Americans have historically been “invisible” in society, Norman Chen, CEO of The Asian American Foundation, a national nonprofit with offices in New York and San Francisco, told Axios,

By the numbers: In the largest survey of its kind, Pew asked more than 7,000 adults of Asian descent about their experiences with racism and discrimination in the U.S.

  • 57% say discrimination is a major problem. And an even bigger majority — 63% — say the issues they face receive “too little attention.”

Context: The U.S. government treated immigrants from Asia as a kind of “unassimilable” outsider, Karthick Ramakrishnan, a University of California Riverside professor, previously told Axios’ Niala Boodhoo.

  • It’s no surprise, then, that 78% of Asian adults in the Pew study say they’ve been treated as a foreigner in some way, even if they were born in the U.S.

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