Chinanews.com, May 27. According to the US Chinese website, the Associated Press-NORC Public Affairs Research Center released a poll on the 26th and found that most people of all ethnic groups in the United States believe that in 2020, Asian Americans will be targeted. Discrimination has intensified.
Due to the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Asians have faced unfair accusations and have become targets of hate crime attacks.
The poll found that compared with a year ago, 60% of Americans said that discrimination against Asian Americans has increased, including 71% of Asian respondents, 66% of African Americans, and 59 % White and 55% Hispanic.
Almost half of Americans believe that Asian Americans now suffer "a lot" or "very much" discrimination in the United States.
On April 17, local time, hundreds of people participated in a rally against discrimination against Asians in Millbrae, San Francisco Bay Area.
With the outbreak and spread of the new crown epidemic, there has been a surge of discrimination and violence against Asian groups in American society.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan
The poll also found that 6 out of every 10 Americans believe that racism is a "very" or "extreme" serious problem in the United States.
The survey also shows that nearly half of Americans are "very" or "extremely" worried about violence against Asian Americans, which has increased due to the new crown epidemic.
At the same time, 57% of Asian Americans said that because of their race, they "frequently" or "sometimes" feel unsafe in public.
The Associated Press emphasized that because the survey was conducted in English and Spanish, most of the respondents were Asian Americans who could speak English, but data on Asians who did not speak English might not be accurately obtained.
On April 4th, local time, New York held an anti-hate Asian parade. After tens of thousands of people gathered in Foley Square in Manhattan with slogans, they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to Cadman Square in Brooklyn.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
The poll was conducted from April 29 to May 3, local time, and a total of 1,842 American adults were surveyed.
The data error range is ±3.2%.
According to data from the "Stop AAPI Hate" organization, from March 2020 to March 2021, more than 6,600 incidents of hatred of Asians have been recorded across the United States.
The hate incidents ranged from verbal harassment to fatal attacks, including the March 16 shooting in Atlanta, which killed 6 Asian women.
The Hate and Extremism Research Center of California State University San Bernardino found that in many large cities in the United States, although the number of hate crimes in 2020 decreased by 6% year-on-year, the total number of hate crimes against Asians increased by 145 year-on-year %.
In the first quarter of 2021, in 16 major cities and counties across the United States, the number of police reports of Asian hate crimes increased by 164% over the same period in 2020.
Susan Lee from California said that as random attacks against Asians became more frequent, friends began to talk to her about racism.
Barbara Canjola, a Hispanic from Texas, said that if someone asked her if Asian Americans faced racial discrimination before the outbreak, she would answer "not at all."
But since the new crown pandemic, everything started.
She can often see reports on TV that Asians are suddenly attacked on the street.
Last week, US President Biden signed the new crown virus hate crime law.
The bill will be reviewed by officials of the Department of Justice for anti-Asian hate crimes, and will provide funding for the federal government’s law enforcement training and hate crime hotline.