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Poll: Distrust of Asian Americans is rising
- vehemenz 4y agoInsofar as minorities seek greater legal representation and rights, "Asian American" makes perfect sense as a political identity. If you're Burmese, why not throw in with Thai and Chinese Americans? However, I'm unsure if anything tangible can be discerned about Americans' attitudes toward "Asian Americans." There are simply too many cultures represented that share not enough in common. Even "Hispanics" (a vexing, incoherent classification) have more in common than Asian Americans. If you don't know what you're measuring, it's hard to understand the data and give it appropriate context.
- niemandhier 4y agoI recently learned that Americans group people from the Indian subcontinent under the category 'Asian'. I am therefore apparently an Asian, something that never occurred to me.
- tablespoon 4y ago> I recently learned that Americans group people from the Indian subcontinent under the category 'Asian'. IIRC, in the UK, "Asian" is understood as South Asian by default, not as East Asian in the US.
- mc32 4y agoI wonder what the poll would look like if you interviewed Taiwanese-Americans and Taiwanese living in America about their views of Chinese mainlanders. Also, would be interesting to see a similar poll about Russians from Americans in general and Ukrainian-Americans. Members at large of aggressor groups will be stereotyped, that's how humans work everywhere. Go to South Africa and interview locals about people from "up north".
- cafard 4y ago> Members at large of aggressor groups The people who were born in the same town as I was, who speak undifferentiable standard US English, send their kids to local schools, etc.?
- jacobkg 4y agoAnecdata: My wife is a doctor AT A HOSPITAL and someone yelped at her a couple weeks ago as she was leaving the parking lot: “Chinese, they don’t f*ing win! You don’t f*ing win!” Made us both very upset
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- hairofadog 4y agoSorry that happened. Cheers to you both.
- midislack 4y agoEverybody clapped.
- oreally 4y agoIt's what happens when there's a world power feeling threatened by a rising upstart. Be skeptical, folks.
- ok_dad 4y agoWhat, is China the rising upstart? China was doing amazing tech and had an amazing society for thousands of years before America was even discovered.
- oreally 4y agoYup, if you weed out all the political FUD the signs are pointing that way. History has often shown bickering happening between the upstart vs the incumbents as well.
- dominotw 4y agoi am a naturalized american who used to have a different passport most of the life. I've pondered who I would support in a hypothetical war between the countries. I haven't been able to resolve this.
- 1659447091 4y agoI would hope it is to the country you chose to pledge an Oath of Allegiance to in order to obtain the new citizenship and all of the benefits it has granted
- niemandhier 4y agoCircumstances matter. Would you hold someone responsible for not keeping an oath to the Reich? How about Trump?
- 1659447091 4y agoThat (circumstances) was not entered into the equation, so I took it to mean all things being equal. Otherwise how could one possibly ponder which side until those circumstances are known, there was no hint that circumstances where being considered
- dominotw 4y agohope i can uphold my Oath of Allegiance for sure.
- Calvin02 4y agoHopefully you can support whatever country allows the freedom to be critical of its motives and question its leaders.
- throwaway_4ever 4y agoThe one who's less guilty of humanitarian violations in that scenario? Don't support America, Russia, or China when they act to make peoples' lives worse. It's like having two really good friends (husband and wife) and the husband starts beating the wife. You're not going to support him just because he's the closer friend. With that said, it's important to remember that many people will do just this and immigrants in a country can wrongly support their origin country. cough supporting Russia right now cough
- lodi 4y agoI would bet good money that distrust from every ethnic group to every other ethnic group is rising due to identity politics making this a salient attribute in every discussion.
- albatruss 4y agoSource with interactive data: https://www.staatus-index.org https://www.staatus-index.org
- bequanna 4y ago> Many Americans remain unaware of the spike in anti-Asian American racism and hate over the past year. ...yet on the same page the responses to "How has your opinion of Asian Americans, in general changed over the past 12 months?" overwhelmingly skew to "stayed the same" or "positive". Maybe I'm missing something, but it certainly seems like they are trying to push a narrative that even their own data doesn't support.
- anotheruser092 4y agoWhere's the contradiction? If you assume that people answered honestly, it's very possible that remaining proportion of people who viewed Asian Americans negatively were more likely to express anti-Asian American racism and hate over the past year, instead of keeping quiet about their views. Furthermore, a lot of people are biased to skew their responses or lie due to social-desirability bias [1]. The responses are self-reported. It's highly plausible that many people said their opinion "stayed the same" while actually worsening. Most importantly, anti-Asian hate crimes have "increased by 339 percent" from 2020 to 2021 [2]. Even if you doubt the data, comparatively, crime reports are more reliable and objective than self-reports when you ask a population about their views of people of a particular ethnicity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias [2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-crimes-increased-339-percent-nationwide-last-year-repo-rcna14282 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-c...
- naniwaduni 4y ago> Furthermore, a lot of people are biased to skew their responses or lie due to social-desirability bias [1]. The responses are self-reported. It's highly plausible that many people said their opinion "stayed the same" while actually worsening. Not just that, people are also just biased to believe their previous opinions are consistent with their current opinions.