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In the Western world or in non-Asian countries, terms such as "racism against Asians" or "anti-Asian racism" are typically used in reference to racist policies, discrimination against, and mistreatment of Asian people and Asian immigrants by institutions and/or non-Asian people.[1][2]
Overview[edit]
The concept of 'racism against Asians' is most common in communities or countries where the ethnic or racial majority is non-Asian, or it is most common in communities or countries where the national character is Western. The concept is most frequently employed in reference to Anti-Asian phenomena which exist in countries which are located outside the Asian continent, such as countries which are located in Africa, Europe, North America and South America.
Countries[edit]
Australia[edit]
Canada[edit]
- Chinese head tax in Canada
- Chinese Immigration Act, 1885
- Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration
- Internment of Japanese Canadians
- Pacific Coast race riots of 1907
- 1886 Vancouver anti-Chinese riots
- Anti-Oriental riots (Vancouver)
- Chinese Immigration Act, 1923
Uganda[edit]
United States[edit]
- Nativism in United States politics#Asian targets
- Racism against Asian Americans, covers the history of anti-Asian racism in the United States
- Affirmative action
- Xenophobia in the United States#Asian targets
- Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States
- Anti-Chinese legislation in the United States
- Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871
- San Francisco riot of 1877
- Destruction of Chinatown, Denver
- Tacoma riot of 1885
- Seattle riot of 1886
- Chinese Massacre Cove, the site of the Hells Canyon Massacre which was committed in May 1887
- Pacific Coast race riots of 1907
- Rock Springs massacre
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Immigration Act of 1917
- Immigration Act of 1924
- Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States
- Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States
- Asian American activism
- Stop Asian Hate, a 2021 movement in the United States
Against East and Southeast Asians[edit]
- Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States
- Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States
- Interminority racism in the United States (by African Americans against Asian Americans)
France[edit]
Racist incidences or perceptions[edit]
Racist incidences or perceptions, especially towards East or Southeast Asians, may include:
- Emasculation of Asian men against fetishizations and hypersexualisation of Asian women (yellow fever).[3][4][5][6][7][8]
- Which causes inferiority complex and internalized racism.[9][10]
- Reinforced by dangerous racial science of supposed "mongoloid race" (outdated), such as lacking of sexual dimorphism between Asian men and Asian women,[11] as well as dealing with the aftershocks of the history of European colonisation of Southeast Asia and "white worship".[12][13]
- The model minority myth fails to account for the bamboo ceiling, the difficult circumstances of poorer Asians, and their marginalization and stereotyping in the media.[14][15][16][17]
- Contradictorily being used to justify white supremacy through modes of "honorary Aryan" or "honorary whiteness" racial concepts.[18][19]
- Being used to justify racism against Black people via the model minority myth.[20]
- Are stereotyped as cold, anti-social, robotic.[21]
- Discrimination based on perceived foreignness or accent.[22]
- Being seen as a perpetual foreigner.
- Being linked to diseases such as coronavirus (see Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic).[23][24]
- Othered into being seen as "yellow" or being seen as the "yellow peril".[25][26]
- Generalizing East Asians as monolithic[27] and being ignorant of the multicultural populations of Southeast Asia, such as the existence of Melanesians in Southeast Asia, etc.
On the other hand, discrimination against South Asians and/or Middle Easterners includes:
- Being seen as terrorists[28][29][30]
- Othered into being seen as "brown", a categorization which was extended to Southeast Asians.[31]
There has been an increase in the amount of psychological or mental distress which has been caused by the aforementioned factors.[32][33][34] Myopic depictions of Asian cultures continues to be a problem.[35]
Additionally, racism in Asia (racist attitudes which Asians have towards each other as well as racist attitudes which Asians have towards non-Asians) is also impacted by differences in nationality as well as regional differences.
See also[edit]
- Afrophobia
- Anti-Afghan sentiment
- Anti-Americanism
- Anti-Arab racism
- Anti-Bengali sentiment in India
- Anti-Chinese sentiment
- Anti-Europeanism
- Anti-Hungarian sentiment
- Anti-Indian sentiment
- Anti-Indonesian sentiment
- Anti-Iranian sentiment
- Anti-Japanese sentiment
- Anti-Khmer sentiment
- Anti-Korean sentiment
- Anti-Kurdish sentiment
- Anti-Malay sentiment
- Anti-Middle Eastern sentiment
- Anti-Mongolianism
- Anti-Pakistan sentiment
- Anti-Palestinianism
- Anti-Filipino sentiment
- Anti-Qing sentiment
- Anti-Romani sentiment
- Anti-Russian sentiment
- Antisemitism
- Anti-Slavic sentiment
- Anti-Thai sentiment
- Anti-Tibetan sentiment
- Anti-Turkish sentiment
- Anti-Vietnamese sentiment
- Anti-Western sentiment
- Discrimination based on skin color
- Dusky Peril
- Ethnocentrism
- Hispanophobia
- Historical race concepts
- Index of racism-related articles
- Interminority racism in the United States
- Islamophobia
- Mormon teachings on skin color
- Nativism (politics)
- Nativism in United States politics
- Negrophobia
- Racism against African Americans
- Racism against Native Americans in the United States
- Racism by country
- Racism in Africa
- Racism in the Arab world
- Racism in Asia
- Racism in Australia
- Racism in Europe
- Racism in Israel
- Racism in Jewish communities
- Racism in Muslim communities
- Racism in North America
- Racism in South America
- Racism in the State of Palestine
- Tatarophobia
- Yellow Peril
- Xenophobia
- Xenophobia and discrimination in Turkey
- Xenophobia and racism in the Middle East
- Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Xenophobia in the United States
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