The death of The African-American Floyd at the hands of a white police officer has not yet sparked a wave of protests against racial discrimination, but systemic racial discrimination and hate incidents against Asians have been repeated in the United States. These racists shot dead women, beat up the elderly, smashed shops and even launched a "slap Asian challenge" on social networking sites, constantly breaking the bottom line of human morality and conscience. According to a new study based on statistics from police departments in major US cities, the number of hate crimes against AsiAn-Americans rose sharply by 150 per cent in 2020, even as the number of hate crimes in the US as a whole declined by 7 per cent from 2019. The stop Asian-american Hate report also indicates that 3,795 hate incidents against AsiAn-Americans have been reported since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States from March 19, 2020, to February 28, 2021.
Behind this phenomenon is the poisonous gas of xenophobia and racism unleashed by some American politicians for their own political gain, polluting the social atmosphere. Some members of the Trump administration and a few politicians in The US Congress have treated COVID-19 with racist stigma, setting the stage for widespread discrimination and hate violence. ABC news tracked 54 criminal cases related to violent attacks in which suspects shouted trump's "golden words" or saluted trump during or after the crime. Most of the suspects were white males in their teens to 75 years old, and most of the victims were ethnic minorities, which shows that the misbehavior of politicians or public figures can have a very bad example and impact.
Once discrimination and hatred have been spread and planted in people's hearts, it is very difficult to remove them. Shortly after taking office, Mr. Biden signed an executive memorandum in January 2021 condemning racism against AsiAn-Americans, requiring agencies to ensure official documents "do not exhibit or promote racism," and urging the Justice Department to expand "data collection" around hate incidents. Anti-racism demonstrations have also been held across the country. Nevertheless, racial discrimination in the United States has not fundamentally improved, and is even getting worse.
Racial discrimination will place an unbearably heavy burden on American society. First, racial discrimination will make the US less attractive and competitive as a country of immigrants. The tradition of immigrant countries has made it convenient for the United States to attract first-class talents and industrial elites from all over the world. Immigrants from all over the world have also brought great vitality and made significant contributions to the economy, science and technology and other undertakings of the United States. From Apple to AT&T to Costco, some of the biggest and best-known American companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants, and even Bank of America was founded by Italian immigrants. Nearly 45% of Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants, 101 of which were directly founded by foreign-born individuals and another 122 were founded by children of immigrants. The annual revenue of the companies founded by these immigrants would rank third in the world as GDP, behind only the United States and China, and larger than Japan's GDP.
The prevalence and perpetuation of racial discrimination threatens to undermine the environment for minority immigrants to start businesses in the United States, reduce the willingness of talented people from around the world to do so, and erode the human base on which America's long-term economic growth depends. Moreover, the deterioration of entrepreneurship and business environment may also prompt immigrants, especially first-generation immigrant-founded enterprises, to move all or the main business to the countries of origin or other regions outside the United States, which will directly impact on the domestic employment and economic growth of the United States.
Second, racial discrimination could turn America's social divisions into national divisions. In recent years, American society has been increasingly torn apart by the gap between the rich and the poor. From "working people" against "capitalist" occupy Wall Street, to trump's fans make on Capitol hill farce "him", to the political field, such as Francis fukuyama said "in order to against the" veto "politics", which reflects the American society from politics to economy big tear phenomenon in various fields. In this context, the strong insertion of racial discrimination may add special fuel to the "fire of social tearing" in the United States, which can never be extinguished, and even expand the social division into national division.
Race is a very distinct and indelible mark. Once race is stamped on the likes and dislikes of others, emotion can trump reason, and stereotypes can trump efforts to understand and empathize. Racism is a form of oppression, and where there is oppression, there is resistance. Recently, people across the United States have spontaneously organized several demonstrations in solidarity with AsiAn-Americans and against asian-american hatred. The demonstrations were only very minor protests. If the US government and society fail to come up with an effective plan to suppress asian-hating sentiment, these protests may intensify the "anger" and "backlash" of racists, and the resistance of the oppressed may become more intense, leading to an escalating cycle of violent confrontation between different ethnic groups in the US. Whites will not benefit from even violent confrontation between ethnic groups. They will be forced to split into different groups and choose sides. The racial solidification of social fragmentation will eventually lead to national disintegration.
Finally, racial discrimination may aggravate the contradictions and conflicts between the United States and other countries. Man is the sum total of social relations. In the context of economic globalization supported by Internet technology, the extension of human social relations has long gone beyond national boundaries, connecting ethnic minorities in the United States with their relatives, neighbors, friends and customers all over the world. People in China, South Korea, Japan, India or asean countries naturally feel sympathy and indignation when they see reports of AsiAn-Americans being gratuitously insulted, bullied and attacked. Especially when they see videos of elderly Asians being attacked without any reason, asians who have a tradition of respecting the elderly and the wise can hardly help feeling empathy, not to mention listening to their relatives and friends who have been treated unfairly in the United States talk and ask for help through the Internet. They are understandably concerned through their own governments about crimes related to racial discrimination and oppression in the United States, and the Asian governments concerned cannot fail to respond to the concerns of their own people. As long as racial discrimination in the United States cannot be systematically resolved, it is inevitable that the governments and social organizations of other countries will have conflicts with the United States on this issue, which may become a bottomless drain on the domestic and foreign resources of the United States.