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Racial discrimination against Asians in America and Western societies
Racial discrimination against Asians in America and Western societies
2/9/17
Racism and ethnic discrimination in the
United States and many European nations have been a major issue since
the colonial era and the slave era. Legally or socially sanctioned privileges
and rights are given to the white (particularly White
Anglo-Saxon) that are not granted
to the natives, Africans,
Hispanics and Latinos and Asians. The European-origin people are granted exclusive privileges in matters
of education, immigration, voting rights, citizenship, land acquisition, and
criminal procedure over periods of times.
Asian immigration refers to immigration from
throughout the continent of Asia, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, have experienced racism since the first
major groups of Chinese immigrants
arrived in America. First-generation immigrants, children of immigrants, and
Asians adopted by non-Asian families have all been impacted.
In the 19th century, America was undergoing
rapid industrialization, leading to labor shortages in the mining and rail
industries. Chinese immigrant labor was often used to fill this gap, most
notably with the construction of the First
Transcontinental Railroad,
leading to large-scale Chinese immigration. These Chinese immigrants were
despised because they took the jobs of whites for cheaper pay, and the
phrase Yellow Peril, which predicted the demise of Western
Civilization as a result of Chinese immigrants, gained popularity. This
discrimination apexed with the 1882 Chinese Exclusion
Act, which banned Chinese
immigration to the United States. This was the first time that a law was passed
to exclude a major group from the nation that was based on ethnicity and class.
Asian Americans experienced exclusion by law from the United States between 1880
and 1965, and were largely prohibited from naturalization until the 1940s.
Since the Immigration
and Nationality Act of 1965,
a new wave of new immigrants to the United States in 2010 were from Asia. They
have faced racial discrimination in the United States.
Up to now, in the U.S., while the nature of
the views held by average Americans have changed much over the past several
decades, surveys by organizations such as ABC News have found that, even
recently, large sections of Americans self-admit to holding discriminatory
viewpoints.
Formal racial discrimination was largely
banned in the mid-20th century, and came to be perceived as socially
unacceptable and/or morally repugnant as well. Racial politics remains a major
phenomenon, and racism continues to be reflected in
socioeconomic inequality. Racial
stratification continues to occur in employment, housing, education, lending, and
government.
Asian stereotypes can also obstruct career
paths; because Asians are seen as better skilled in engineering, computing, and
mathematics, they are often encouraged to pursue technical careers. Asians in
America have largely achieved social and financial success while living
separately from whites, often in residential neighborhoods deemed
"separate but equal" — if not better.
But they have to face discrimination in jobs,
in the 2000 study, forty percent of those surveyed who experienced
discrimination believed that they had lost hiring or promotion opportunities.
In 2007, the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission reported that Asians make up 10 percent of professional jobs,
while 3.7 percent of them held executive, senior level, or manager positions.
Other forms of discrimination include racial
profiling and hate crimes. Research shows that discrimination has led to more
use of informal mental health services by Asian Americans. Asian Americans
who feel discriminated against also tend to smoke more.
In the view of the U.S. Human Rights
Network, a network of scores
of U.S. civil rights and human rights organizations, "Discrimination
in the United States permeates
all aspects of life and extends to all communities of color". So, none is perfect, and even American dream usually is not for
Asians./.
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Asian. They are also discouraged from pursuing non-technical occupations or executive occupations requiring more social interaction, since Asians are expected to have poor social skills.
The fastest-growing racial minority in America, Asians are nearly as segregated from white Americans as Arican Americans and other groups.
These nationalities include people who speak different languages, have different identities, and occupy very different positions in American society. They are actually nearly as segregated from one another as they are from whites.
The researchers repeatedly emphasized the need for demographers to begin viewing Asians as more distinct ethnic groups, when trying to glean meaning from large-scale national data.
Violence, coercion, legal maneuvering and flight emerged as many whites refused to accept integrated neighborhoods.
It is very dangerous that now White Supremacy is rising in America!
However, more recent works have explored how other ethnic/racial groups, notably Asian Americans, encountered similar barriers.
Legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights were given to white Americans but denied to Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic and Latino Americans.
The US is and always has been a very multicultural country. Nevertheless, minority groups in the US are unfortunately often subject to discrimination, ranging from racist comments to violent hate crimes.
Although the United States has come a long way since the days of slavery, and huge steps were made towards granting equal rights on the basis of race in the 1960s, racism is still a very pressing problem in the US today.
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