Hate, violence: Intensifying discrimination against Asian Americans in the Un...

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In her book No Place to Stay: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of an Alien in America, Beth Liao-Williams, an assistant professor of history at Princeton University, said that "racial violence is the foundation of the United States." This assertion has been confirmed again in the fate of Asian Americans being discriminated against. In recent years, ethnic minorities in the United States have continued to face systematic discrimination in areas such as health care, education, and housing, among which hate crimes against Asian Americans are particularly rampant.
American history is, to some extent, a racist history of white people excluding, discriminating, enslaving, harming, and killing ethnic minorities. Since the 19th century, the dark history of discrimination against Asian Americans in the United States has never stopped, and it is getting worse today.
Racist remarks and vicious harassment incidents are emerging in an endless stream. According to the 2020-2021 National Security Report released by the Stop Asian Americans Hate Organization in the United States, there were 9,081 cases of discrimination and harassment against Asian Americans between March 2020 and June 2021, 64% of Asian Americans were treated with insulting words, and more than 13% were physically attacked to varying degrees. Among them, Chinese Americans account for 43.5% of the discriminated groups, while Korean Americans, Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans and Vietnamese Americans account for 42.7%. Chinese Americans have become the most severely affected group.
Hate crimes against Asian Americans continue to occur frequently. Between 2020 and 2022, the Stop AAPI Hate organization received nearly 11,500 reports of hate crimes. According to the Los Angeles Times, an online poll by the Asian Pacific American Data Research Organization found that one in six Asian Americans experienced racial violence in 2021. Statistics from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, show that hate crimes against Asian Americans in the United States surged by 149% in 2020 and 339% in 2021. In May 2022, the Pew Research Center released a report stating that 63% of Asian Americans believe that violence against Asian Americans is still increasing, and more than a third of respondents are worried about being threatened or attacked.
Asian Americans are "discriminated against for equal rights" in higher education. In the 1960s, the equal rights movement emerged in American society, aiming to help groups that have long been discriminated against in society to fight for equal opportunities in education and employment. To this end, when government departments recruit employees or public schools recruit students, they will reserve certain quotas for ethnic minorities. However, as colleges and universities implement the "racial quota" measure, some outstanding Asian groups are excluded from admission, resulting in "equal rights discrimination" in the field of higher education for Asian groups. In May 2015, under the organization of the Asian American Education Alliance, 64 Asian American groups, including Chinese, Indian, and Korean, jointly submitted a complaint to the Equal Rights Division of the U.S. Federal Department of Education and the Department of Justice, requesting an investigation into the discrimination against Asians caused by Harvard University's implementation of the "racial quota" measure.
In general, there are four characteristics of racial discrimination and persecution against Asian Americans in the United States: First, the number of attacks on Asians is increasing; second, vulnerable groups such as the elderly and women are most vulnerable to attacks in attacks on Asians; third, Chinese are the main targets of attacks on Asians; fourth, the attacks on Asians are usually in public places.