Shekhar Pokhrel
April 25, 2021
Professor Otte
Lab Report
How has the pandemic changed my view toward Asian-Americans?
Abstract: During the pandemic, Zoom stocks weren’t the only things that went up, Attacks on Asian Americans also spiked, revealing the saddening reality about American people. A fellow American named Jeff Yang recently experienced a hypocritical moment. Someone on purpose “coughed theatrically in his direction” when he was waiting in the line for groceries. The women got “into a car and drove away” as nothing happened but Yang was shocked and traumatized by such racist notions. The novel coronavirus pandemic has every American scared for their well-being but for Asian Americans, the virus had created another problem: a wave of verbal and physical attacks.“A man sort of lurched at me and shouted,’ You people bough the virus. Go back to China’.Incidents like this have risen and some are beyond verbal assaults. A family of three was killed in Midland, Texas. The killer was charged but there is a bigger potential for these hate crimes because the number of coronaviruses was continuously rising.
Introduction
Many Asian-American, have said that their experience of living in the U.S has changed following the outbreak of coronavirus. In Yakima, Washington, Tony Yan owns a restaurant named Jade Garden Yakima, Washington, and currently has faced a financial problem because of vandalism. It was ” estimated that the damage to be Jade Garden was around $1,500”.Chan had left off his employees, because of the situation and now he is having difficulties providing for his family. The Asian rights groups and San Francisco State University teamed up to start the STOP AAPI HATE database, which records reports of Covid-19 discrimination. The amount of response received was enormous, the data showed that most Asian-Americans are verbally abused, they are also assaulted, discriminated and most of them had suffered from vandalism. The AAPI had received many letters from San Gabriel Valley ( home to many Asians). One is “ A white mask was spray-painted over Mulan’s mouth, as well as the words “Toxic made in Wuhan.” The Asian- American in the valley had stopped walking on the streets because everywhere they would go, they would interact with hate.
Materials and Methods:
“I talk about the Chinese virus and- and I meant it. That’s where it came from” Trump said
His language has been echoed by the republic members of congress as part of what he considers a “coordinated effort” targeting Asian Americans. In a report from South Asian American Living Together(SAALT) after trump won the election, there was an increase in hate violence,” it recorded 302 incidents of hate violence and xenophobic political rhetoric aimed “at the Asian community.
The CBS News journalist Weiji Jiang was told to ask the question “why testing is a global competition to him” to china. “President Trump has previously made comments regarding Ms. Jiang’s Asian American background.”
Our President at the time calls the virus’’#chinesevirus”, there is evidence that early cases of covid-19 occurred in Wuhan, China but that isn’t enough evidence to support the conspiracy.
“It could simply be that infect people accidentally bright the virus into the city and the wet market,” said Dr, Polly Hayes, from Univerity of Westminster. This was one of the factors for the increase in the assaults toward Asian-American.
Results
The graphs describe the assaults and the group of people who are being assaulted. The Asians who were born here aren’t given the same priority as many other races but” Asian Americans are Americans”.They shouldn’t receive verbal harassment or shown discrimination because They “ are Americans. And as a matter of fact, Asian Americans are a part of the front line doctors, nurses, researchers looking for a cure. We are a part of America”.About four in ten U.S. adults say it has become more common for people to express racist views toward Asians since the pandemic began About three in ten Asian adults (31%) say they have been subject to slurs or jokes. Asian American unemployment rates increased by more than 450 percent from February to June 2020. Since the beginning of the outbreak, organizations have documented at least 1,900 hate incidents across 46 states. Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit group that provides free mental-health support via text message, saw a 39 percent increase in texts from Asian Americans in the first quarter of 2020.
Discussion
Asians in the US come from different ethnicities, countries. There are about 19 million Asian-American and They include South and East Asia living to work or study.It may be that Asian Americans are the next big thing in the United States, most of the time they are used in the production environment, and due to them having a huge population eventually, they will be everywhere. If the education level is raised to graduate,the mean earnings” increase to $71,647, $66,914, $56,936 and $55,252 for whites. The corresponding earnings for Asians are $67,592, $56,098, $54,009, and $52,396,” Asian-Americans are considered an outsider, they still suffer real discrimination. Another example can be College acceptance, because of race” some Chinese Americans were being denied admission at Lowell High School in San Francisco”.Asian-Americans have been getting hate for being the cause of the pandemic, it is obvious that their life has changed and will exponentially change if people don’t stop abusing them for something that wasn’t their fault. We are the problem and if we wanna overcome this then we’ll have to come together to fight racism, and “develop empathy with other people who are racially profiled.”
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