{"id":64863,"date":"2021-03-25T14:11:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=64863"},"modified":"2021-12-16T18:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T18:32:38","slug":"stop-asian-hate-why-its-important-for-asian-people-to-challenge-racial-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/stop-asian-hate-why-its-important-for-asian-people-to-challenge-racial-discrimination","title":{"rendered":"Stop Asian Hate: Why challenging racial discrimination is important"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The death of eight Asian people in a mass shooting in Atlanta showed a racial issue in America. But the rising Anti-Asian violence is a problem across the world.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Photo-by-Jason-Leung-on-Unsplash-02-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The protest against Asian Hate Violence in the US after the shooting case in Atlanta. Photo by:  Jason Leung on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last July, Jing Han went on her weekly shopping trip when a group of young people circled around her on their bikes. They whistled at her and put a middle finger towards her. Jing Han was shocked and offended, she went into the market quickly and tried to ignore the rude noise outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the racism against the Asian community, specifically against Chinese, East Asians and South-East Asians in the UK, has become even more severe since last summer,&#8221; said Jing Han. &#8220;Because I have never experienced anything like this before the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also found that a lot of friends around her had also suffered from xenophobic bullying. She said: \u201cMy friend\u2019s neighbour plays music noisily, every night, so my friend suggested to her neighbour to be quiet at night, cause she has a baby to look after. But the neighbour shouted at her to go back to China, offensively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the racial hate crime in Atlanta, Jing Han only discussed racial discrimination issues with her friends personally. But the mass shooting in Atlanta shocked her and stimulated Jing Han to stand up against racism in public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe increasing number of hate crimes about Asians is not an illusion, it is reality\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Jing-Han-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>\u201cThe increasing number of hate crimes about Asians is not an illusion, it is reality,\u201d said Jing Han, a 31-years-old Chinese female who has lived in the UK for four years. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid-19 is not the only reason for increasing Asian-Hate Crime. Many people attribute the rising racial hate against the Chinese and Asian community to Covid-19. However, the pandemic is just a fuse of this massive racial discrimination. Some politicians should be accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince the start of the pandemic, reports of xenophobic bullying started to come out into grassroots media outlets,\u201d said Leila Usmani, the Project Development Worker of Race Alliance Wales. They\u2019re a collective that work for achieving race equality in Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She adds: \u201cMore recently in the mainstream media, new reports have been arising lately of a rise in specifically xenophobic hate crimes due to the way in which the media correlate the Coronavirus with China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not news that Donald Trump, the former President of the U.S. and his Secretary of State, Mike Pence, called Coronavirus the \u201cChinese Virus\u201d and \u201cWuhan Virus\u201d in public. It made Chinese people become the scapegoats of this pandemic and the target for some people to attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data from <a href=\"https:\/\/moonshotcve.com\/\">Moonshot<\/a> shows that the number of tweets that contained hate speech about Chinese from February to April last year is over 200,000. The number of hashtags about discriminating Chinese people on Twitter and Facebook increased three times as much as the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/Infographic1-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endthevirusofracism.com\/\">End the Virus of Racism<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Asian-Hate is also a problem in Cardiff. On March 22nd, Hengyu Zhou, an international student from China, went to the city centre to buy a cup of coffee with her friend. She could not predict that she would suffer racial discrimination again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is at least the second time that I suffered racial discrimination,\u201d she said. \u201cThe first time was in November last year, the first day I arrived in Cardiff, a man shouted \u2018F**k off\u2019 at me and my friends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe second time was yesterday afternoon, when I went to a coffee shop with my friend, and a drunk woman shouted \u2018Chinese Virus\u2019 at us loudly.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living in Cardiff for less than six months, Hengyu has faced racism two times, and is making her feel unsafe and sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data from police forces across England and Wales shows that the number of assaults, robberies, harassment and criminal damage against Chinese people from January to March is 267, which is about three times of the previous year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the racial discrimination cases like Hengyu faced are not be added into racial hate crimes, because she did not call the police. It means the 267 racial hate crimes across England and Wales are only the tip of the iceberg, and that the real figure is much higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChinese traditional education did not teach us how to fight against racial discrimination and fight for our equality,\u201d said Jing Han.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe lack opinion leaders to support our community in public. Most of the time, we suffer through racial hate crime because we worry about retaliation, and we choose to keep silent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sandra Oh is a real one. \u270a\ud83c\udffe\ud83e\udd0e\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DZBWMG4bEU\">pic.twitter.com\/DZBWMG4bEU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dino-Ray \u201cSandra Oh\u2019s Megaphone\u201d Ramos (@DinoRay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DinoRay\/status\/1373720667695185920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>Sandra Oh, a Korean Canadian actor. Daniel Wu, a Chinese American actor. Both of them are devoted to fighting against Asian Hate Violence and speak up for Asians.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Support the AAPI Community Fund <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lwzfz2R6oI\">https:\/\/t.co\/Lwzfz2R6oI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Daniel Wu (@danielwuyanzu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielwuyanzu\/status\/1366819288053542913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The tragedy that happened in Atlanta reminded Jing Han to stand out and support campaigns about stopping Asian hate crime on social media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She wrote on her Facebook: \u201cEvery time the irrational language and behaviour Asian people ignored could possibly evolve into harm to us one day. Let\u2019s say NO fearlessly to further harm and stay connected to support each other. If it is not now but when?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hengyu also reported her experience of suffering racial hate in Cardiff on her Twitter account. She said:\u201d I think we should report the racial hate that we underwent, we should not keep silence, it is time to speak up for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leila also mentioned the importance of campaigns, such as Black Lives Matter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c2020 and the resurgence of Black lives Matter activism have given many more racialised people the confidence to come forward with their experiences, in public, in the workplace, in education, in services they consume and online,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only the victims of racial hate crime and racial discrimination report their experience, emphasis the importance of racial equality, can the public and government pay attention to these problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe increase in this reporting and confidence in challenging racism from the direct sense to the systemic institutional sense has meant that its prevalence can no longer be ignored,\u201d Leila said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce it cannot be ignored, 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