Covid-۱۹ impact on racial equality in the United States of America: An Asian American case study

With the start of Covid-۱۹, dubbed the "China Virus" by a former US president, a wave of racially motivated violence against Asian Americans emerged. This article will examine the underlying cause and issue of who may be utilized as a weapon for ideological ends by racial profiling a particular group of people. We will explore this instance via the lens of an institutional framework. According to institutional theory, society is built on socialization and cultural norms, and our interactions provide a window into the world. Chinese immigrant’s weredemonized in the ۱۸۵۰s as immoral, slothful, cheap, and dangerous. However, the bulk of people who moved to the United States was self-sufficient individuals presented issues for the majority of Americans who work as farmers and manual workers. Chinese immigrants constituted a considerable danger, and as a result, a page act was passed in ۱۸۷۵ prohibiting their entry. In ۱۸۸۲, the Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted, including harassment and discriminatory slurs. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in ۱۹۴۱, US General DeWitt, who led the Western Defense Command, issued Public Proclamation No. ۴, which relocated ۱۰۰,۰۰۰ Japanese to camps comparable to those used by European Jews. When the civil rights movement in the United States began, Asian Americans were labeled as hardworking peepholes and elevated to the status of a model minority; when the myth of the model minority took hold, other minority groups began to act like Asians; and when the US auto industry was hit by Japanese in the ۱۹۸۰s, it was a case of economic issues morphing into cultural ones. During the ۱۹۹۲ Los Angeles Riots, an altercation between Afro-Americans and Koreans occurred, exposing racial tensions and demonstrating why other minority groups in the United States favored Afro-Americans. During Donald J. Trump's presidency, hostility against the People's Republic of China became more robust, and the previous US president's way of speaking incited hostility toward Asian Americans. We noted an increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans after Covid-۱۹, dubbed the "China Virus." The increase was so significant that Andrew Yang, the Democratic candidate for President in ۲۰۲۰, spoke outspoken about Asian Americans' unequal treatment. To conclude, the issue is not whether Covid-۱۹ is a "China Virus," but rather fear of the Asian minority in America, as shown currently via hate crime. In reality, segregation has been used to bring people together for causes, pit minorities against one another in the ۱۹۵۰s, and attain political goals via viewpoints today.

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Asian American , China Virus , Covid-۱۹ , institutional theory , United States of America