Racism Against Asian American

The year 2020 having been a tough year for everyone now. We all are suffering from various challenges day to day during global pandemic.  However, this year had become a horrible nightmare to all of the Asian American too.  Coronavirus had huge impacts on everyone's life. For decrease the spreading rate of coronavirus, the country had to published safe portals to keep everyone safe. All students have to stay home and take their classes online. Workers from Non-essential business has to work remotely too. We all have to wear face masks and keep social distance when we are in public area. Therefore, we suddenly lose the freedom and convenience that we used have before. These changes had caused people live with stress. President Donald Trump, who also has referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus” and more recently the “kung flu,” has increased anti-Asian xenophobia, stoking public hysteria and racist attacks to the Asian American community. 

According to a coalition of Asian-American groups that had created a reporting center called STOP AAPI HATE published a report in period of March 19 to August 5 had received 2583 reports of incidents in hate speech, discrimination, and physical attacks against Asians and Asian-Americans. There’s a Chinese American reported, “A woman targeted me out of a group of people and shoulder pushed me extremely hard where my phone nearly fell out of my hands. She then said to me, “F**k you, ch**k.” Afterwards, she spat on a man who defended me and tried to spit on me as well. “In this case, we can see it’s not just verbal but also included physical assault. These statistics only included United States, and I can’t imagine how others suffering in other country.

 

The reason it is important to me because I’m one of the Asian American too. I just couldn’t imagine how we can go through this difficult time as the epidemic is still developing and the discrimination abuse is continuing. We Asian Americans are live in misery as everyone else now, but now we have to be alert outside in case if anyone is attack us. The racial discrimination is way beyond to increase stress level in general public. I guess as the racism discrimination goes, the soonest Asian American will stand up to fight for their equality in United States.

 

Citation:

Washington State University. (2020, November 2). Discrimination increases against Asian and Asian American population, affecting health. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 8, 2020 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201102155412.htm

Human Right Watch. (2020, October 28). Covid-19 Fueling Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia Worldwide. Retrieved November 8, 2020, from https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide

A. (n.d.). STOP AAPI HATE NATIONAL REPORT 3.19.20 - 8.5. Retrieved November 11, 2020, from http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/STOP_AAPI_Hate_National_Report_3.19-8.5.2020.pdf