Crimes targeting Asian Americans have risen dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stop AAPI Hate report, which tracks incidents of violence and harassment against Asian Americans in the US, has reported nearly 3,800 instances of discrimination against Asians in the past year. The actual number could be much higher.
The report sets the different types of discrimination
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- Verbal harassment (68.1%) and shunning (20.5%)
- Physical assault (11.1%)
- Civil rights violations (8.5%), e.g., workplace discrimination, refusal of service, and being barred from transportation
- Online harassment makes up 6.8% of the total incidents
Stop AAPI Hate finds in its report the attacks are related to the perception that Asians were responsible for the COVID-19 because of its origins in Wuhan, China.
An Elaboration to the data of attacks
About 68% of the anti-Asian attacks documented in the study were verbal harassment, 21% were shunning and 11% were physical assaults.
About 9% of the attacks were civil rights violations such as workplace discrimination or being refused service at a business. Nearly 7% of the attacks were online harassment. Most of the incidents occurred at businesses or on public streets.
More than two-thirds of the attacks in the study were reported by women. More than 40% of the attacks were reported by Chinese Americans, 15% by Korean Americans, and 8% by Filipino Americans.
Who is attacking Asian Americans?
These data are indicating that the attacks are not limited to only a particular Asian country. These are against all whether they are from China, India, Korea, or somewhere else.
Verbal harassment, stunning and physical assaults are committed everywhere. Civil rights violation, workplace discrimination, online harassment, public street, and at the business place are frequent, that is pointing out Asian Americans are being targeted by people who work with them, share the business places, public street, and workplaces, etc.
The proportion of Asian Americans in USA Population
The US has just entered the new decade of the 2020s. According to Worldometer elaboration, the current population of the United States of America is 332,373,250 in 2021. It is equivalent to 4.25% of the total world population that ranks the USA at number 3 in the world, outnumbered only by the two demographic billionaires, China and India.
The racial proportion of the US population is unique. White being the maximum, then the Hispanic population finds places followed by blacks and Asians.
The US Census update in 2000 showed the total Asian population in the United States as 10,171,820 accounting for 3.61% of the total US population. Asians formed the fastest-growing ethnic group in the US with a growth rate of 63.24% from 1990-2000. Chinese, Filipino, Asian Indian, Vietnamese and Korean. Together these five groups made up about 80% of the Asian population. Chinese was the largest Asian group making up for 24% of the Asian population followed by Filipino, Asian Indian, Vietnamese and Korean.
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