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January 15, 2019 a traveler returned home to the Seattle area after visiting family in Wuhan, China

Soon thereafter, he started feeling sick

This individual became the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 in the US

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Statistics of Asian Hate in the United States during COVID-19

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Statistics of Asian Hate in the United States during COVID-19

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has documented a 77% increase from 2019 to 2020 in hate crimes against Asian people living in the United States

From March 2020 to June 2021 mare than 9,000 anti-Asian hate incidents were self-reported to the advocacy group Stop AAPI hate

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Cont'd Statistics of Asian Hate in the U.S.

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Cont'd Statistics of Asian Hate in the U.S.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, 39 percent of Asian Americans reported personally experiencing racism sometimes or often

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What Mental Health Impact did this have on Asian Americans?

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What Mental Health Impact did this have on Asian Americans?

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Polls in both 2020 and 2021 show more than 35 percent of Asian Americans report their mental health has worsened during the pandemic

58 percent of Asian Americans said, from March 2020 to March 2021, reports of discrimination and violence against Asian people affected their own mental health

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Asian Americans largely feel blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic

"Roughly two months after the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the US, 60 percent of Asian Americans reported having witnessed someone blaming people of Asian background for the coronavirus epidemic."

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How did Donald Trump Politically impact Asian hate during COVID-19?

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How did Donald Trump Politically impact Asian hate during COVID-19?

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2019: when President Donald Trump regularly and directly blamed China for spreading COVID-19

Trump referred to the virus as the "Chinese Virus"

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“I think the Republican strategy is to deflect blame and scapegoat and rile up their base,” said Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University

Scapegoat Def. Oxford Languages: A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency

Professor Jeung is also involved in the Stop AAPI Hate tracker

https://stopaapihate.org/

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Biden notes, directed at the U.S. Department of Justice to fund initiatives aimed at encouraging better reporting of hate crimes with special grants to local law enforcement agencies and community groups.

"With this new law, the Department of Justice and our entire administration is going to step up,” A direct quote from Biden. “Right now, [there] is a critical problem of hate crimes being underreported.”

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Race and Racism are both present in the following passage from the Health Affairs Organization:

"The broad Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community represents a heterogeneous group, with 50 ethnicities and 100 languages; extensive and detailed polling data on them has long been lacking" (Findling, Blendon, Benson, Koh 4).

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Context of Laws in Asian-American History

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Context of Laws in Asian-American History

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Mid-1800s: The first major wave of Asian immigrants arrived at American shores

March 3, 1875: "The Page Act of 1875: Prohibiting the recruitment of laborers from 'China, Japan or any Oriental country' who were not brought to the United States of their own will or who were brought for 'lewd and immoral purposes'"

May 6, 1882: "Facing hostile, and often violent treatment from locals, Chinese immigrants are targeted by Congress with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act"

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https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/covid-19-has-driven-racism-and-violence-against-asian-americans-perspectives-12

https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/survey-majority-of-asian-americans-have-witnessed-covid-19-bias/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAuqKqBhDxARIsAFZELmIkAKusYR8BTi43N7cxM0l7AqqS02-PmQGESvQbMs71MnzcgBTVe9AaAvx2EALw_wcB

https://publicintegrity.org/inside-publici/newsletters/watchdog-newsletter/spike-anti-asian-hate-crimes-response-stalls/?

gclid=Cj0KCQiAuqKqBhDxARIsAFZELmJXpfu0WpJYtu_NUkzUGwPL8pkQZ1SuvcDt_4YKQuczyEIU11af0doaAvCoEALw_wcB

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/09/22/how-covid-19-took-hold-in-north-america-and-europe/#:~:text=It%20was%20nearly%2010%20months,19)%20in%20the%20United%20States.