Analysis of the Causes of Discrimination against Chinese During the Pandemic in the United States

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.213How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The COVID-19 Pandemic; Discrimination; the United States; Ethnic Chinese; Anti-discrimination

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a sharp increase in discrimination against Chinese in the United States. Chinese were subjected to verbal or violent discrimination from the media, the public, policies and other aspects. In this study, the author mainly adopted interviews with 12 Chinese in the United States aged 20-35 to understand their discrimination experience in the United States during the pandemic and analyzed the reasons of the sharp increase in discrimination against Chinese during the pandemic. The interview results showed that more than half of the respondents had experienced varying degrees of discrimination during the pandemic. Only two respondents had not experienced discrimination at all, and some of them had changed their attitudes towards the United States. In terms of cause analysis, the misunderstanding and prejudice between Chinese and American groups peaked during the pandemic. The main reason is that the media and the governmental administration incited racial opposition by mastering public opinion and misled the masses to blame China for the pandemic. But the serious epidemic in the United States, public anger caused by high unemployment, tense Sino-US relations and weak anti-discrimination activities by Chinese cannot be ignored. The United States urgently needs to find the root causes of hate crimes against Asians, promote dialogue and understanding between the two minority groups, so as to avoid increasingly serious discrimination against Chinese.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yujing Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Analysis of the Causes of Discrimination against Chinese During the Pandemic in the United States
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1244
EP  - 1248
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.213
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.213
ID  - Zhang2021
ER  -