Asian American's Group History Related To Prejudice And Discrimination

Asian American's Group History Related To Prejudice And Discrimination
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Asian American's Group History Related To Prejudice And Discrimination
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Racially-motivated attacks on the Asian Americans over the recent past have sparked a debate on the group’s history related to prejudice and discrimination. Pointing to the Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1882, Thi Dieu (2021) has argued that the recent anti-Asian violence in Atlanta that led to the death of six Asian women in March 2021 was in part due to historical injustices that date back to 19th century. Nguyen Thi Dieu, a history associate professor at the College of Liberal Arts gives more examples about the link between the increasing wave of violence and how Asian Americans have historically been mistreated. These aspects include the attaches by the Ku Klux Klan against the Vietnamese between 1979 and 1981 in Texas, the beating and killing of a Chinese American, Vincent Chin in 1982 following accusations that he had “stolen” work from Americans” and the 9/11-related reactions against South Asians regardless of creed. Asian Americans face serious legal, political, and economic challenges largely due to discrimination. The political attacks on the Chinese following the announcement by the former President Donald Trump that the coronavirus was prepared in a Chinese lab has led to the vandalization of many Asian businesses. Judy Chu, the Californian Congresswoman reported in late March 2020 that there were about 100 hate crimes against the group daily (Strochlic, 2020). Besides the Chinese Exclusion Act, Asian Americans have suffered legal challenges such as the Japanese internment during the Second World War and historians have reported that the harassment and political rhetoric against the group reflects the time when racism was at its peak in the history of the United States. The World Health Organization outrightly warns individuals and institutions against linking infections to specific location in a bid to prevent backlash and stigma (Strochlic, 2020). However, Asian Americans have recently been blamed for the cause of the pandemic.
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While Asian American immigrants have brought a positive impact in many countries they have adopted, many have expressed mixed reactions about their experiences while living in the United States and other nations (AsiaSociety, 2018). In their book, “Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation”, David Eng, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Shinhee Han, a psychotherapist, have described the experiences of Asian Americans as feeling lost, alienated, and in waywardness. Eng and Han have felt that the Asian American students often express themselves in the clinic and classroom as if they are of little concern than others, and therefore, decide not to seek counseling services. These experiences led to the two authors to conclude that a popular Korean-American student had to commit suicide due to depression (Hsu, 2019). Students at universities and other Asian Americans continue to face depression despite their increasing levels of assimilation in the United States. Hsu (2019) reports that
“there ma...