China News Service, May 19. According to a comprehensive report by the US "World Journal", the USC School of Journalism this week announced a project completed by the "Leading Asian American Change Alliance" and "Asian American Foundation". Poll, Asian-Americans are now more blamed than ever: 21% of Americans believe Asian-Americans are responsible for the new crown pneumonia epidemic, 33% believe that Asian-Americans are more loyal to their country of origin than to the United States .

　　Toda, a LAAUNCH board member who ran the survey, told NBC News that the poll confirms the "perpetual alien myth" bias that Asians are always considered to be from their country of origin, whether they were born in the United States or not.

　　An NBC reporter noted that other studies have confirmed a similar pattern.

For example, a report released earlier this year found that hate crimes against the Asian American community more than tripled from 2020 to 2021.

　　According to the latest data from the Pew Research Center, about one-third of Asian Americans have changed their daily lives for safety reasons.

The Asian-Americans interviewed analyzed the key factors in encountering violent attacks, primarily being a scapegoat for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many also said that local officials had failed to address the problem effectively.

　　The survey, which was run from March 29 to April 14, 2021, and February 10 to 28, 2022, surveyed at least 2,766 U.S. adults.

Among them, 21% of respondents believe that Asians and Asian Americans are "partially responsible for the new crown pneumonia epidemic", which is significantly higher than the 11% of the 2021 poll.

　　In addition to respondents continuing to blame Asian Americans for the coronavirus, a larger percentage of Americans have doubts about Asian American loyalty.

Thirty-three percent of respondents this year believe that "Asian Americans are more loyal to their country of origin than they are to the United States," compared with just 20 percent of respondents last year.

　　The importance of this survey is that Asian Americans, who make up 7 percent of the U.S. population, feel increasingly isolated and discriminated against in the face of continued anti-Asian violence and growing anti-Chinese political rhetoric, as well as the Hate crime attacks.

　　On the other hand, only 29 percent of Asian-American respondents said they "fully agree" that they belong to and are accepted by the United States, the lowest of any minority group.

Meanwhile, 71 percent of Asian-American respondents said they are currently discriminated against in the United States.

　　TAAF CEO and LAAUNCH co-founder said the increase in distrust of Asian Americans was partly due to the increased use of anti-China rhetoric on both sides of the aisle.

“On the surface, we think it’s the coronavirus and Trump. But deep down, we know it’s about model minority myths and permanent alien stereotypes. On a deeper level, it shows how this country is targeting Deep-rooted systemic racism in Asian Americans.” (Ding Shu)