Taipei, March 31 (CNA) Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Wednesday condemned the recent rise in racism and hate crimes targeting people of Asian descent in the United States and called on Taiwanese nationals in the U.S. to stay alert. Karthick Ramakrishnan, director of the demographic data and policy research nonprofit group AAPI Data...
Bank of America has expanded its four-year, $1 billion program to advance racial equality to five years and $1.25 billion and will now specifically include people of Asian descent, in response to the rise of racially motivated incidents against that community. A survey released on Tuesday by AAPI Data, a group that publishes demographic data...
The survey, which AAPI Data said was administered only in English because of time limitations, shows Asian Americans are viewed as “perpetual foreigners.” About 64% of Asian American respondents said they’ve been asked questions such as: “Where are you from, assuming you’re not from the U.S.?” This perception of Asian Americans as outsiders has been...
One in four Asian Americans has experienced a hate incident, while more than two-thirds have been asked "where they're really from," a poll from Survey Monkey and AAPI Data published Tuesday has found. The poll asked English-speaking adults to ask if they ever had been a victim of a hate crime, verbally or physically abused...
Representatives from AAPI Data and SurveyMonkey, as well as AAPI community partners, will discuss the following trends and more, with attention to current AAPI experiences with discrimination and how those experiences compare with both the general U.S. population and other racial groups. Hate crime experiences are significantly higher among Asian Americans than the national average...
“When she ran for president, some criticized her for not emphasizing her Indian heritage enough,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political scientist at the University of California at Riverside and co-founder of AAPI Data, a polling and research organization. “She generally had not done much to put herself out there, in terms of not talking much...
Richard Lui joins the ReidOut to talk about new survey data out from AAPI Data: "What they found is that Asian Americans are less likely to report hate crimes, they're not comfortable with it. They're worried that they may be attacked again." WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
The recent surge in anti-Asian racism and violence in the United States is the fruit of centuries of government policy. Why it matters: One thread throughout American history is a “racialized notion of who is an insider, who’s an outsider, who is American and who is an unassimilable foreigner,” says Karthick Ramakrishnan, a University of...
Ever since it came to light that the COVID-19 virus originated in Wuhan, China, incidents of hate against Asians in America have been steadily on the rise. According to a study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, there has been an increase of 150 percent...
President Biden gave his first news conference yesterday, where he emphasized what he's accomplished but was pressed on what he hasn't. Plus, all votes have been counted in Israel's election, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc just short of a 61-seat majority in the Israeli Knesset. And, the history of hate crimes against Asian...
Lawmakers and advocates are hoping that a newly announced White House position of Asian American and Pacific Islander liaison will strengthen President Joe Biden’s commitment to the AAPI community, rather than just be a symbolic gesture. Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder and director of the demographic data and policy research nonprofit AAPI Data, also noted that there’s...
The negative effects of Donald Trump’s four years of expressing his crabbed blood and soil vision of our nation through racially charged comments and nodding and winking at expressions of white supremacism, coupled with his using the bully pulpit of the presidency to repeatedly and falsely assert that the election was stolen from him, unfortunately...
On Monday, March 22, The View co-host acknowledged she previously supported President Donald Trump referring to COVID-19 as the "China virus," but now she sees the error in her ways. According to NBC News, there has been a 150 percent increase in hate crimes targeting Asian people since 2019. The founder and director of demographic...
An article by Kimmy Yam, of NBC Asian America, throws more light on the problem. According to Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder and director of Demographic Data and Policy Research of nonprofit AAPI Data, the rise cannot be attributed solely to President Trump’s incendiary, racist rhetoric about the coronavirus but he believes that Trump’s repeated mention of...
An article by Kimmy Yam, of NBC Asian America, throws more light on the problem. According to Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder and director of Demographic Data and Policy Research of nonprofit AAPI Data, the rise cannot be attributed solely to President Trump's incendiary, racist rhetoric about the coronavirus but he believes that Trump's repeated mention of...
Over the weekend protests against anti-Asian violence took place across the country in response to the killing of eight people — six of whom were women of Asian descent — in three spas around Atlanta. The protests also addressed the broader context of anti-Asian rhetoric and violence, which has increased since the start of the...
By Galen Druke, Nate Silver and Alex Samuels, FiveThirtyEight |
To overcome the myth about material success in AAPI communities, our nation—and policymakers—must recognize the diversity of income earned in our communities, and particularly among women. This starts with federal and state efforts to collect disaggregated data by race/ethnicity, with categories similar to the Affordable Care Act’s Section 4302—across income, education, health, environment, public safety...
By Isha Weerasinghe, The Center for Law and Social Policy |
According to the Times, in interviews over a one-week period “nearly two dozen Asian-Americans across the country said they were afraid “to go grocery shopping, to travel alone on subways or buses, to let their children go outside. Many described being yelled at in public — a sudden spasm of hate that is reminiscent of...
In the wake of Atlanta-area shootings that killed 8 people, including 6 Asian women, police suggested that the crime was motivated by a sex addiction rather than racism. This has sparked outrage among Asian Americans who have experienced a surge in hate incidents over the past year. Karthick Ramakrishnan, chair of the California Commission on...
A wave of violence nationwide — there's been frightening video of an assault on an Asian American woman in New York and the shooting rampage that took the lives of eight people, six of them Asian women. The attack drawing new attention to a wave of hate crimes since the start of the pandemic. “The...
