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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in racism and discrimination against Asian Americans. Reports have shown a 150% rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020. Surveys have also found that over half of Asian Americans believe racist views against them have increased during the pandemic. While some research suggests prejudiced individuals have felt empowered to act on their biases, other studies find no overall rise in anti-Asian sentiment in the general population. In response, Asian American communities have come together to speak out against the growing racism and form coalitions to fight all forms of oppression.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in racism and discrimination against Asian Americans. Reports have shown a 150% rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020. Surveys have also found that over half of Asian Americans believe racist views against them have increased during the pandemic. While some research suggests prejudiced individuals have felt empowered to act on their biases, other studies find no overall rise in anti-Asian sentiment in the general population. In response, Asian American communities have come together to speak out against the growing racism and form coalitions to fight all forms of oppression.

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“Prejudice Act Towards the Asian Descent during the Covid-19 Pandemic” – char hahahaha

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is believed to have emerged in Wuhan, China in late December
2019 and began rapidly spreading around the globe throughout the spring months of 2020. As COVID-19
proliferated across the United States, Asian Americans reported a surge in racially motivated hate crimes
involving physical violence and harassment. Throughout history, pandemic-related health crises have
been associated with the stigmatization and “othering” of people of Asian descent. Asian Americans have
experienced verbal and physical violence motivated by individual-level racism and xenophobia from the
time they arrived in America in the late 1700s up until the present day. At the institutional level, the state
has often implicitly reinforced, encouraged, and perpetuated this violence through bigoted rhetoric and
exclusionary policies. COVID-19 has enabled the spread of racism and created national insecurity, fear of
foreigners, and general xenophobia, which may be related to the increase in anti-Asian hate crimes during
the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased amount of racism against Asians and
Asian Americans. For instance, the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State
University reported that hate crimes against Asians has increased by 150% in 2020 and Stop AAPI Hate
has received 3,795 hate crime incidents since the beginning of the pandemic. A Pew Research study
found that 58% of Asian Americans believed that racist views had increased towards them during the
pandemic. A study by the New York University College of Arts and Science found that there was no
overall increase of Anti-Asian sentiment among the American population; instead, it suggested that
"already prejudiced persons" had felt authorized by the pandemic to act openly on their prejudices.
Increases in racist rhetoric have coincided with increases in racist attacks. Since February, Asians and
people of Asian descent around the world have been subjected to attacks and beatings, violent
bullying, threats, racist abuse, and discrimination that appear linked to the pandemic.

Since the pandemic's onset, Asians and persons of Asian origin have been the subject of pejorative
terminology in media stories, remarks by politicians, and on social media platforms, where hate speech
connected to Covid-19 appears to possess spread widely. The current Covid-19 outbreak has resulted in a
rise in acts of prejudice, discrimination, and violence directed toward “Asians”, mainly in the United
States. As an acting part of the Asian community origin, the current surge in hate crimes of violence has
resulted to a stronger united front amongst our fellow Asian descents. The bigotry I've seen as an
immigrant and in relation to COVID-19 is all too familiar and terribly heartbreaking. However, because
many of us have numerous ideologies that frequently exacerbate our experiences towards the growing
hate against Asians, we can and must develop community, establish allies, and mobilize coalitions in
response to all forms of oppression and racism. In the midst of anti-Asian racism, oppression, and
prejudice today, I am pressingly urging on our communities to consolidate, speak out, and fight hatred
altogether so that no amount of congressional violent criticisms directed at people of Asian descent would
result to further resentment.

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Report" (PDF). Stop AAPI Hate. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
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Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. July 1, 2020. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
Chelsea Daniels, Paul DiMaggio, G. Cristina Mora, Hana Shepherd. "Does Pandemic Threat Stoke
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