Chinanews.com, May 27. According to the US Chinese website, according to a poll released by the Associated Press-NORC Public Affairs Research Center on Wednesday (26th) Discrimination among Americans has intensified, and Asians have faced unfair accusations due to the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and have become targets of hate crime attacks.
According to the Associated Press, this poll found that compared with a year ago, 60% of Americans said that discrimination against Asian Americans has increased, including 71% of Asian Americans, 66% of African Americans, 59 % White and 55% Hispanic.
Almost half of Americans believe that Asian Americans now suffer "a great deal" or "quite a lot" discrimination in the United States.
The poll also found that 6 out of 10 Americans said that racism is a "very" or "extremely" serious problem in the United States.
Fifty-seven percent of Asian Americans said that because of race, they "frequently" or "sometimes" feel unsafe in public, which is similar to the proportion of African Americans and higher than the proportion of Hispanics or whites.
The survey also shows that nearly half of Americans are "very" or "extremely" worried about the increase in violence against Asian Americans due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, including two-thirds of Asian Americans.
The Associated Press also emphasized that because the survey was conducted in English and Spanish, the respondents were mostly Asian Americans who could speak English, but data on Asians who did not speak English might not be accurately obtained.
The poll was conducted from April 29 to May 3, 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 of this year, more than 6,600 incidents of hatred for Asians have been recorded across the United States.
The hate incidents ranged from verbal harassment to fatal attacks, including the shooting in Atlanta on March 16 this year, which killed 6 Asian women.
The Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University San Bernardino (The Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism) found that in many large cities across the United States, although the number of hate crimes in 2020 fell by 6% year-on-year, The total number of hate crime cases against Asians increased by 145% year-on-year.
In the first quarter of this year, 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 last year.
President Biden signed the "Anti-New Crown Hate Crimes Act" last week.
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.