Tadataka Unno, a well-known Japanese jazz pianist in New York, was preparing to return home from work at 7:30 p.m. on September 27 when he was surrounded by youths at a ticket gate at the 135th Street subway station in Harlem West, Manhattan, where a young girl pushed Hinojawe but claimed the victim had hit him and another man punched him in the head, citing that the girl was pregnant. The person pushed him to the ground and punched him in the face. During the group fight, the attackers made racist remarks from time to time, interspersed with the words “Chinese” and “Asian”, most likely as a Japanese pianist, as Chinese.
From the example, the perpetrator’s discrimination and resentment against Asians can be seen. I think the reason for this may be that with the first detection of the Coronavirus in China, many people think Chinese spread the virus to other countries. Although the evidence now suggests that the Coronavirus was not first detected in China, but that China was the place to be infected in bulk. This has led to Chinese and discrimination against women and children. This is actually caused by one-sided access to information. In the early days of the outbreak, the Coronavirus was repeatedly called the “Chinese virus” by President Trump to mislead the public, people obtained information from him with the idea that “China is the source of the virus” and that “Chinese is the spreader of the virus.” Such “single story” is one of the reasons people are biased. And because of the worsening economic situation caused by the spread of the new crown virus in the United States, coupled with the impact of political propaganda, some Americans will be the new crown epidemic, China and Chinese Americans directly linked to hate crimes against Asians may increase.
Identity crisis has always existed, and this crisis is both unacceptable to Asians by other Americans. It is also the distrust of Asians of their race and culture. This lack of self-confidence is inborn, but also brought by the day after the day. Asians who grew up in the United States found themselves different from other children when they were raised, with significant differences in appearance and ethnicity, coupled with differences in family culture and habits. Many Asians say they were discriminated against and excluded as children because of their differences with others. At the same time, these discriminations and violence against Asians in American history have planted the notion that “I am the weak and the victim”, “I am not like everyone else” or even “I am first class” have been planted in the hearts of Asians from an age.
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“https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/nyregion/jazz-pianist-attack-racism.html”
The issue of racism should no more be tolerated. As an Asian, it is sometimes so difficult to convince myself that I am part of this culture. For Asian American, they were born and raised in America, but the imprinted Asian look gave them a tag. However, I don’t think this should be considered as a reason for them to be attacked and discriminated..
This is definitely an issue in this country. I wish it wasn’t the way it is. However, I am thankful for this class and opportunities such as these posts to begin better informing people of the truth and reduce the single story that many people tend to believe. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this! I think the more we educate ourselves and pass it on to others in our small circles there is hope for a better humanity experience.
I think racism in America should be illegal in the near future. Because i just saw a video on instagram where a man claiming he is racist.
Thank you for your sharing, it is great to have someone discussed the racism towards Asians. As you said in the post that the inappropriate notions about race are planted in people’s mind since they were young, I think there is no way to stop racial discriminations without passing down the appropriate concepts about races to children. Multi-generational perspective truly gives a deep insight into racism. Great post.