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Teach children at a young age that it's wrong

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Enforce more strict laws

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FORCE others to show empathy towards people of the opposite race forcefully. Full of force. With force

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FORCE others to show empathy towards people of the opposite race forcefully. Full of force. With force

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold, best known for extolling the virtues of nomadic taco trucks and under-the-radar noodle shops in his native Los Angeles, once said that he wrote "to try to get people less afraid of their neighbors."

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hate crimes against Asian Americans in major U.S. cities have surged dramatically, making Gold's message more important than ever. Stop AAPI Hate, a Los Angeles-based coalition aimed at addressing discrimination against Asian American Pacific Islander communities during the pandemic, received nearly 3,800 firsthand reports of anti-Asian hate in the U.S., including verbal harassment and physical assaults, in the past year. Of those who shared their experiences, nearly 70 percent were women. Actual numbers are thought to be even higher, as many hate crimes go unreported, due to a host of factors ranging from cultural and language barriers to a lack of trust in law enforcement.

In February 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Jonathan Mok, a college student from Singapore, reported being punched and kicked on the street in London. His attackers, he told the BBC, shouted, "We don't want your coronavirus in our country." Mok posted photos of his injured face on social media, writing, "Racism is not stupidity — racism is hate. Racists constantly find excuses to expound their hatred — and in this current backdrop of the coronavirus, they've found yet another excuse."

Racism is not stupidity — racism is hate. Racists constantly find excuses to expound their hatred — and in this current backdrop of the coronavirus, they've found yet another excuse.

In January, Black Lives Matter, the global racial justice movement, was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, for the way its call for systemic change has spread around the world. Meanwhile, migrants and refugees — some literally running for their lives  — continue to be met with suspicion and hostility.

Gold saw food as one way to bridge the divide between people from different ethnic backgrounds. Learning about other cultures emphasizes the fact that we are all people and sends the message that racism and xenophobia will not be tolerated in a civil society. It is our job, as people, as parents, as citizens of the world, to combat racism and xenophobia wherever we can. Here are five ways:

1. Celebrate other cultures

There is no real upside to a global health emergency, but it does serve as a powerful reminder that we are all in this together. The novel coronavirus is a threat to every human being; we must work together to halt transmission and protect the most vulnerable among us.

Stigmatization is cruel and counterproductive. Stand up for cultural diversity in your community by supporting local businesses run by immigrants. Read your kids stories that celebrate different cultures. Try foods and recipes from a range of culinary traditions. Watch films from other countries with your children.

2. Call out bigotry and hate speech

There has been a disturbing increase in hate speech among Americans and Europeans in recent years, often blaming immigrant and minority groups for the difficulties of their own countries. If you overhear someone tell a racist joke, speak up and let them know stereotyping isn't harmless. Let your children know they should feel free do the same. There's nothing funny about using "humor" to normalize dangerous ideas and perpetuate ugly stereotypes.

If you see something in the newspaper or on social media that reflects prejudice, write a letter to the editor or leave a comment to let others know that intolerant remarks are unkind and uncalled for.

At a World Children's Day celebration in 2018, students at a UNICEF-supported school in Vietnam hold up signs showing some of their hopes for the future — dreams shared by young people everywhere. © UNICEF/UNI218897/Viet Hung

3. Teach children kindness and how to talk about differences

Prejudice and hate are not innate. They are learned behaviors — and they can be unlearned. Children absorb biases from the adults around them, and from the media, books and their peers. So set a good example. The process of countering negatives with positives begins at an early age. Talking about differences does not increase prejudice in children. Make sure children understand we are all human and we all have a right to feel safe and valued. Name-calling is uncivilized and will not be permitted.

4. Stand up for people being harassed — intervene if it's safe to do so

When the public stands in solidarity with immigrants and marginalized groups, bullies lose their power. If you see someone being harassed or physically attacked, it is important to help if you can do so safely. Make your presence as a witness known. Make eye contact with the person being attacked and ask if they want support. Don't escalate the situation. Verbal and physical abuse is wrong and should not be tolerated. All people deserve to be treated with dignity and humanity.

When he was 16, Alexis left his home in Omoa, Honduras to earn money to support his mother and his siblings (above). He fell off a freight train and lost his leg. "He left because of poverty," his mother said. "He told me he was going so he could help me and all the children I have. He wanted to study." © UNICEF/UNI218897/Viet Hung

5. Support human rights organizations like UNICEF

UNICEF has highlighted and advocated tirelessly for children's rights around the globe for 75 years and knows that children need to be seen as children, first and foremost. During this global crisis, it's more important than ever that we all remain in solidarity with one another. Human rights are a collective promise made by all countries of the world, including those in distress. Children from all ethnic backgrounds — especially children who have been uprooted by violence, war and poverty — need our support, wherever they are. Every child deserves to be treated with humanity and empathy, and to grow up in a safe and healthy environment.

Please support UNICEF's work to save and protect children around the world.

Top photo: A lonely figure walks the tracks on the outskirts of Reynosa, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from McAllen, Texas. Alone or with family members, thousands of Central American children and teens arrive in Reynosa every year, seeking safety and a better life across the border in the U.S. © UNICEF/UN030740/Zehbrauskas

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8 Everyday Way to Fight Racism - Elimination of Racial Discrimination

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Many survivors of domestic violence also face racism and other forms of oppression. We must recognize and support survivors' unique experiences.

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18 ways to sustain the fight against racism (opinion) - cnn

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Nicole Stamp writes that as the news cycle changes, and the ongoing protests get less coverage than they did a few weeks ago, it's crucial that we maintain the momentum of this movement.

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Celebrate other cultures

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Instead of reducing disparities, the industry makes them worse. Here's how to change that.

Oncologist, bioethicist, and vice provost of the University of Pennsylvania

Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

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The coronavirus pandemic didn't create the health disparities among Americans, but it has exposed once again how stark the problem is. Black and Latino patients are two to three times as likely as white patients to be diagnosed with COVID-19, and more than four times as likely to be hospitalized for it. Black patients are more than twice as likely to die from the virus. They also die from it at younger age s. COVID-19 has exacerbated long-standing trends: Black and Latino Americans have lower rates of insurance coverage, a higher prevalence of chronic diseases, worse health outcomes, and a lower life expectancy. People in the health-care world sometimes speak of these patterns as if they are inevitable facts of life-something the industry is powerless to change. More doctors and hospitals need to acknowledge and address how the U.S. health-care system is rife with structural racism. For decades, American medicine has discriminated against people of color.

The health-care system, by one estimate, is responsible for only about 10 to 15 percent of preventable mortality in the United States. Socioeconomic factors, such as housing, food, and education, have a greater overall impact. Policies that effectively address these factors will be required to significantly reduce disparities in health outcomes for Black and Latino people. Nevertheless, many choices that health-care professionals commonly make-such as not accepting Medicaid patients, having fewer staff members at facilities in minority neighborhoods, and blaming patients for not taking their medicine and for poor overall outcomes-perpetuate disparities and even amplify them.

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Read: How to fix the health gap between Black and white America

These health gaps are not immutable. Concrete changes to public policy, industry practices, and medical education could turn the health-care system into a force for greater equality. Here are five such changes:

First, when states are indifferent to whether their Black and Latino citizens have health coverage, the federal government should step in. According to research published earlier this year, 9 percent of white adults were uninsured in 2018, compared with 14 percent of Black adults and 25 percent of Latino adults. The coronavirus recession is making the coverage gap worse. Already, as many as 12 million Americans have lost insurance sponsored by their employer or a family member's employer. Black, Latino, and other workers of color have faced especially steep declines in employment.

The Affordable Care Act did reduce disparities in insurance by setting up insurance exchanges and making more Americans eligible for Medicaid, but some states opted out of the latter-with terrible consequences for disadvantaged minorities. Indeed, an estimated 46 percent of Black working-age adults live in the 15 states that refused to implement the ACA's expanded Medicaid benefits, leaving low-wage workers with no way to pay for their family's care. The disparity rises when joblessness grows: Medicaid covers 36 percent of unemployed adults in states that expanded eligibility for the program, but only 16 percent in states that did not.

So far, federal inducements have not been enough to persuade states such as Texas, Georgia, and Florida to expand Medicaid. The next president and Congress can solve that problem by federalizing Medicaid and removing its administration from states. Such a change could yield universal enrollment standards and greatly reduce the racial health-insurance gap.

Second, policy makers can make insurance coverage meaningful by having Medicaid pay physicians and hospitals more. Having health coverage is necessary, but not sufficient, for patients to obtain good health care in a timely manner. Because Medicaid pays doctors less than Medicare or private insurance does, many doctors refuse to see-or delay appointments for-Medicaid patients. A 2014-15 survey showed that only 68 percent of family-practice physicians accepted new Medicaid patients, while 91 percent accepted those with private insurance. Some doctors did not accept new patients at all or didn't accept insurance. Only a third of psychiatrists accepted new Medicaid patients.

In 2013 and 2014, the ACA temporarily raised Medicaid payments to primary-care doctors. This fee bump improved patients' access to doctors. Just as predictably, when states returned to lower fee levels, Medicaid enrollees had more trouble making appointments. The lesson is clear: The federal government needs to permanently raise Medicaid payments to doctors. For hospitals, payment reforms should penalize poor performance on measures of health equity. For example, higher payments to hospitals could be tied to improvements in emergency-room wait times-which have often been found to be longer for Black patients than white ones.

Read: Medicaid's dark secret

Third, hospitals-which often anchor a community's health-care system-must address social factors that affect health outcomes. Hospitals that do so could see benefits in the long run. In the mid-2000s, for example, Boston Children's Hospital began a community-outreach program for low-income Black and Latino children who, based on previous information, seemed likely to be hospitalized with asthma. Case workers worked with families and community groups to reduce the prevalence of conditions that lead to asthma attacks. The result: Unnecessary readmissions, emergency-room visits, missed school days by students, and lost workdays among parents all fell. The program generated $1.73 in benefits for every dollar spent. At a variety of other hospitals, initiatives to address the social determinants of health have led to a fall in readmissions.

The government has leverage over hospitals. In return for avoiding substantial federal and state taxes, nonprofit hospitals are required to provide community benefits. Many hospitals count discounted care to Medicaid and uninsured patients as community benefits. Instead, state and federal policies should specifically encourage hospitals to invest in community health-for instance, in anti-hunger programs or "nurse-family partnerships " that assist low-income mothers. Many hospitals also receive extra funds because they operate in low-income communities, make less money from private insurance, and provide a disproportionate share of their services to patients without the ability to pay. These government payments should be tied to investments that address social determinants of health.

Fourth, increasing diversity among physicians and nurses is vital. In an experiment in Oakland, California, the researchers Marcella Alsan, Owen Garrick, and Grant C. Graziani found that the involvement of Black doctors could reduce the cardiovascular mortality gap between Black and white men by 19 percent. Yet only 5 percent of American physicians are Black, compared with 13 percent of the general population. Latino and Indigenous physicians are similarly underrepresented. Structural barriers, including the excessive cost of attaining a medical or nursing degree and bias in the admissions process, substantially contribute to this lack of diversity. Many states already offer loan-repayment services and other incentives for physicians to work in underserved areas, but expanding these programs could recruit even more underrepresented minorities to the medical field. Not all the obstacles to diversity are economic, of course. Minority students are also more likely to experience discriminatory comments and public humiliation during their medical training. Medical schools and hospitals need to enforce serious disciplinary measures for such behavior, while ensuring that students who complain are not labeled as "troublemakers."

Read: America's health segregation problem

Finally, all health-care workers could also benefit from a curriculum that specifically addresses implicit bias and the historical roots of racism in the medical system. To this day, medical textbooks still depict mostly white skin tones. Many medical students hold empirically false beliefs about race-based physiological differences-including the notion that Black patients have a higher tolerance for pain than white patients. These beliefs affect the kind of decisions that doctors make. One analysis early in the pandemic found that doctors were less likely to refer symptomatic Black patients for testing than they were to refer white ones. Educating aspiring doctors about these dynamics will improve the care that patients receive.

These five steps won't cure America's health disparities, but they outline a course of action. Reducing racial bias in health care will have broad benefits: A country whose residents have fewer chronic conditions, better access to care, and longer lives has a greater capacity for happiness and prosperity. As America faces a national reckoning with structural racism, leaders in the health-care system must confront the role we play and assume responsibility for solving the problem.
Amaya Diana and Aaron Glickman contributed research to this article.

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5 Ways the Health-Care System Can Stop Amplifying Racism

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Instead of reducing disparities, the industry makes them worse. Here's how to change that. Oncologist, bioethicist, and vice provost of the University of Pennsylvania Professor at the University of Pennsylvania The coronavirus pandemic didn't create the health disparities among Americans, but it has exposed once again how stark the problem is.

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Racism in workplaces involves unequal pay this causes for otherr racis to get paid more than others. Not only is this unequal, but people are struggling and when they work as much or more than others and not get paid as much as others who might not work as much is just going to make matters worse. Of course that is up to the manager and they might not say that this is unequal but having a look at the pay amount for every company and the hours they work might be a good start. Some people get paid equally but are forced to work longer hours than others and this is equal to abuse. This

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Starbucks apologizes to Black customer asked to wait outside

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California resident claims manager ejected him from San Jose outlet after dispute over COVID-19 capacity limit.

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Some people might not even get the job they are fit for (have the degree) but not get treated equally since they are a different race, that should be reported. We have to tell others that it is okay to say something, because it is not equal.

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It is sadly true that people of color cannot necessarily expect to receive the same quality of medical care in this country as whites. And unfortunately, discrimination by patients toward doctors is another problem that the medical community needs to address. To overcome the racism and discrimination that lead to ...