China News Service, December 9th. According to the American Overseas Chinese News Network, in the United States, white, Hispanic, African and Asian teenagers have different answers to how specific racial identities will affect their future lives.

　　The latest public opinion survey jointly launched by The Washington Post and Ipsos randomly selected a sample of 1,349 teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 in the United States.

The results show that about 20% of young people believe that their ethnicity will help them succeed in life, and the same proportion think that their ethnic identity will cause harm.

　　It is worth noting that a higher proportion of Asian teenagers believe that ethnic identity will cause negative effects.

And this data is positively related to its social treatment.

More than one-third of Asian teenagers believe that they have been treated unfairly because of their race in the past year.

　　Compared with other ethnic groups, Asian and African youths are more pessimistic about their future development.

54% of African-American teenagers and 41% of Asian teenagers said that their racial identity would have a negative impact on their success.

Hispanic and white adolescents holding this view accounted for 22% and 10%, respectively.

Most people in these two groups believe that their race "has no effect."

　　In addition, the survey found that young people’s perceptions of their racial identity and future development are affected by their experience of racial discrimination.

　　About 20% of young people said that they had been treated unfairly due to their ethnic background in the past year. Among them, African-American teenagers accounted for 36%, followed by Asians with 34%.

In sharp contrast, 90% of white respondents believed that they were not treated unfairly because of their race.

Nearly 80% of Hispanic respondents said the same.

Among non-white adolescents who said they had been treated unfairly, 60% believed that their race would impair their ability to succeed.

　　Regarding the question of whether whites enjoy social privileges, 57% of the adolescents interviewed (including 78% of non-white adolescents) said that compared with African descent, whites have "very many" or "considerable" social advantages.

Among them, 80% of Asian respondents believe that "whites enjoy advantages that Africans do not have in society", which is higher than that of Hispanic respondents.

This result is similar to the results of a poll of American adults conducted by the Pew Research Center in August 2020-59% of adults believe that whites have a social advantage.

　　The survey also showed that nearly 60% of teenagers said that racial discrimination is the “main threat” facing their generation, and Asian teenagers holding this view accounted for 68% of the total.

　　Regarding the influence of the next generation on the future society, most adolescents (about 50%) believe that their generation will treat non-white residents more equally, but about 38% believe that they are likely to maintain the behavior of current adults style.

African-American youths least believe that their generation will improve the status quo of racial discrimination.