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Discrimination Experiences Shape Most Asian Americans’ Lives

Author:     NEIL G. RUIZ, CAROLYNE IM and ZIYAO TIAN
Source:     Pew Research Center
Publication Date:     30 November 2023
 Link: Discrimination Experiences Shape Most Asian Americans’ Lives
Stephan:  

Racism in the United States, which means basically passionate hatred by about a third of Whites for non-Whites, has become a dangerous and nasty inflammation, a kind of cancer, in the national character. There is a lot of conversation about anti-Black racism, but not much about anti-Asian hate. There should be much more because this version of racism is becoming a major problem that is doing great harm to the wellbeing of the country. Here are the facts.

A bar chart showing that 57% of Asian adults say discrimination against Asians living in the U.S. is a major problem. Meanwhile, 63% say too little attention is paid to race and racial issues concerning Asians living in the U.S.

The spike in incidents of anti-Asian discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic sparked national conversations about race and racial discrimination concerning Asian Americans.1 But discrimination against Asian Americans is not new.2 From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, to denial of the right to become naturalized U.S. citizens until the 1940s, to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, to backlash against Muslims, Sikhs and South Asians after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, most Asian Americans have faced discrimination and exclusion while being treated as foreigners throughout their long history in the United States.

At the same time, Asian Americans have often been upheld as a model for how other racial and ethnic minorities should behave – especially in comparison with Black Americans and Latinos.3 Despite the socioeconomic diversity among U.S. Asians, they are commonly portrayed as educationally and economically successful, hardworking, deferential to authority, unemotional and lacking in creativity.4 This “model minority” stereotype has placed Asian Americans […]

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