Asian Hate in the United States during COVID-19 by Rylee Wilson https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih en-us 2023-11-07 00:35:18 UTC 2023-11-07 03:18:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1616945455497-3739f67df172?crop=entropy&cs=srgb&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w3ODI2fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTB8fGFzaWFuJTIwaGF0ZXxlbnwxfHx8fDE2OTkzMTc0MzR8MA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=85 The first case of COVID-19 in America wilso696_ https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778848634

  • 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

    • ]]>     2023-11-07 00:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778848634     Statistics of Asian Hate in the United States during COVID-19 wilso696_ https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778852542

  • 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

    • ]]>     2023-11-07 00:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778852542     Cont'd Statistics of Asian Hate in the U.S. wilso696_ https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778856100

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

    • ]]>     2023-11-07 00:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778856100     What Mental Health Impact did this have on Asian Americans? wilso696_ https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778861827

  • 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."

    • ]]>     2023-11-07 01:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778911159     How did Donald Trump Politically impact Asian hate during COVID-19? wilso696_ https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778927072

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

  • Trump referred to the virus as the "Chinese Virus"

    • ]]>     2023-11-07 01:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778927072     Politics and Opinion wilso696_ https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778978579

  • “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/

    • ]]>     2023-11-07 02:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2778978579     Laws and Regulations wilso696_ https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2779048269

  • 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.”

    ]]>     2023-11-07 02:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2779048269     Discussion of course key terms wilso696_ https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2779055209 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).

    ]]>     2023-11-07 03:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2779055209     Context of Laws in Asian-American History wilso696_ https://padlet.com/wilso696_/2726insrfsjf81ih/wish/2779062299

  • 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/? 

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  • 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. 

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