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With every news story or social media post emerging from the United States related to another case of anti-Asian violence, many people on both sides of the Pacific understandably shake their heads in disgust and anger. I too am one of them.
Yet, even as I focus on America's own reckoning on issues of social justice, I am struck by how the trending social media hashtag #StopAsianHate also has relevance across Asia as well.
OPINION
'Stop Asian Hate' has relevance everywhere, even in Asia
US hate crimes offer chance for a moment of introspection
Curtis S. Chin
March 20, 2021 05:00 JST
A recent report by Stop AAPI Hate said it had recorded 3,795 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. between March 19, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021. © AFP/Jiji
Curtis S. Chin is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank. He is managing director of advisory firm RiverPeak Group, LLC.
With every news story or social media post emerging from the United States related to another case of anti-Asian violence, many people on both sides of the Pacific understandably shake their heads in disgust and anger. I too am one of them.
Yet, even as I focus on America's own reckoning on issues of social justice, I am struck by how the trending social media hashtag #StopAsianHate also has relevance across Asia as well.
Here in the U.S. and elsewhere, hate can beget violence as people are stereotyped and "dehumanized." This includes not just verbal and physical abuse directed toward new immigrants or migrant workers, but against racial, ethnic and religious minorities who are still perceived as the "perpetual other," regardless of how many generations ago their families might have moved here.
The killing of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spa and massage businesses in the metro Atlanta area in the U.S. state of Georgia this week could well be just the latest example of such violence.
As the Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnamese American novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen noted on Twitter this week, regardless of whether or not these killings are formally classified as "hate crimes," the deaths cannot be fully separated from a history of stereotyping of Asians -- particularly Asian women -- in the U.S.
Over the past few months I have joined many other Americans of Asian and non-Asian descent on a range of media platforms to support actions against the spike in anti-Asian hate in the U.S. following the COVID-19 outbreak.
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