Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Asians across the United States have been repeatedly attacked, and incidents of ethnic hatred and violence have occurred frequently. According to U.S. media reports, crimes against Asians in the U.S. nationwide have increased by nearly 150% in 2020, while New York City is even more serious, with a sharp increase of 833% over the previous year. Racial discrimination against Asians and a series of hate crimes have ignited a wave of protests by Asians across the United States. On April 4, an anti-hate Asian parade was held in New York, with tens of thousands of people participating. Following the "Black People's Fate is Fate" movement, the anti-hatred of Asians is also rapidly heating up across the United States. Asians, who are known as "model minorities" in the United States, were forced to take to the streets to fight, which once again proved the comprehensiveness and seriousness of the racial discrimination problem in the United States, and exposed the long-standing human rights problems in the United States.
The recent increase in racial discrimination and violent crimes against Asian Americans is due to various reasons. There are not only political, economic, historical, cultural, legal, social and other factors; there are also sudden factors, such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic; more profound factors, such as political indifference, historical legacy, and legal issues. Missing.In politics, although the U.S. Constitution clearly stipulates that people are born free and equal, there are many white people who make up about 60% of the U.S. population who feel that they are an excellent nation and are superior. The so-called "white supremacy" is deeply ingrained in American society. Many senior officials and national policy advisers in the Trump administration believe in "white supremacy." The racism of "white supremacy" is also indirectly transmitted to some minorities, forming a systematic racial discrimination phenomenon in which white people discriminate against colored people and larger minorities discriminate against smaller minorities. Therefore, some scholars pointedly pointed out that “the United States is based on racism.” In the history of the United States for more than 200 years, from the early genocide of Native Indians, to the trafficking of enslaved blacks, to the persecution of Chinese laborers at the end of the 19th century, And then to the violent enforcement of the law by white policemen that led to the death of African-American Freud, the United States is full of inferiority on the issue of racial discrimination. As Robin Tiangelo, a professor at the University of Washington in the United States, pointed out, “The United States is based on the principle that all human beings are created equal. However, the history of this country actually Extinction and the theft of their land. The wealth of the United States is based on the labor of kidnapping and enslaving Africans and their families. It was not until 1965 that black women were given the right to vote."
Historically, there have been large-scale and persistent anti-Chinese incidents in the United States. The notorious Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first racially discriminatory immigration restriction law passed in the United States for specific ethnic groups. The bill allowed the US government to suspend the entry of Chinese immigration, resulting in a tragedy of permanent separation of a large number of Chinese laborers in the western United States from their relatives in China. Although the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed due to the anti-fascist alliance and war needs during World War II, the history of Chinese exclusion has not been liquidated, and the Chinese laborers and their descendants who have been illegally violated have not received state compensation. . The U.S. House of Representatives did not pass a bill until 2012 to formally apologize to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and the after-drug of racial discrimination against Chinese people still exists today.