Racism against Asians

Racism against Asians (or anti-Asian racism) refers to instances in which people of Asian descent are subject to racist policies, discrimination, and mistreatment from institutions or non-Asian people - typically in the Western world or in other countries outside Asia. ^{[1] [2]}

Countries

Main article: Racism by country

Australia

Main article: Racism in Australia

• White Australia policy

Canada

Main article: Racism in Canada

• Chinese head tax in Canada
• Chinese Immigration Act, 1885
• Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration
• Internment of Japanese Canadians
• Pacific Coast race riots of 1907
• 1886 Vancouver anti-Chinese riots
• 1907 Vancouver anti-Asian riots
• Chinese Immigration Act, 1923

Uganda

Main article: Racism in Africa § Uganda

• Expulsion of Asians from Uganda

United Kingdom

Main article: Racism in the United Kingdom

• 2024 United Kingdom riots
• Paki bashing
• Home Office 213/926 (secret deportation of East Asian sailors)

United States

Main articles: Asian immigration to the United States and History of Asian Americans

• Nativism in United States politics#Asian targets
• Racism against Asian Americans, covers the history of anti-Asian racism in the United States
• Affirmative action
• Xenophobia in the United States#Asian targets
  • Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States
    • Anti-Chinese legislation in the United States
    • Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871
    • San Francisco riot of 1877
    • Destruction of Chinatown, Denver
    • Tacoma riot of 1885
    • Seattle riot of 1886
    • Chinese Massacre Cove, the site of the Hells Canyon Massacre which was committed in May 1887
    • Pacific Coast race riots of 1907
    • Rock Springs massacre
    • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Immigration Act of 1917
  • Immigration Act of 1924
  • Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States
    • Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
    • California Alien Land Law of 1913
    • Internment of Japanese Americans
• Asian American activism
  • Stop Asian Hate, a 2021 movement originating in the United States

Against East and Southeast Asians

Main articles: History of Chinese Americans § Anti-Chinese movement, History of Japanese Americans § Anti-Japanese sentiment, Stereotypes of groups within the United States § Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, and Stereotypes of East and Southeast Asians in the United States

• Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States
• Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States
• Interminority racism in the United States (racism against Asian Americans by other minority groups)

France

Main article: Racism in France

• Anti-Asian racism in France

Racist incidents or perceptions

Racist incidents or perceptions, especially towards East or Southeast Asians, may include:

• Emasculation of Asian men against fetishizations and hypersexualisation of Asian women (yellow fever). ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  • Which causes inferiority complex and internalized racism. ^{[9] [10]}
  • Reinforced by dangerous racial science of supposed "mongoloid race" (outdated), such as lacking of sexual dimorphism between Asian men and Asian women, ^[11] as well as dealing with the aftershocks of the history of European colonisation of Southeast Asia and "white worship". ^{[12] [13]}
• The model minority myth fails to account for the bamboo ceiling, the difficult circumstances of poorer Asians, and their marginalization and stereotyping in the media. ^{[14] [15] [16] [17]}
  • Contradictorily being used to justify white supremacy through modes of "honorary Aryan" or "honorary whiteness" racial concepts. ^{[18] [19]}
  • Being used to justify racism against Black people via the model minority myth. ^[20]
• Are stereotyped as cold, anti-social, robotic. ^[21]
• Discrimination based on perceived foreignness or accent. ^[22]
  • Being seen as a perpetual foreigner.
• Being linked to diseases such as coronavirus (see Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic). ^{[23] [24]}
• Othered into being seen as "yellow" or being seen as the "yellow peril". ^{[25] [26]}
• Generalizing East Asians as monolithic ^[27] and being ignorant of the multicultural populations of Southeast Asia, such as the existence of Melanesians in Southeast Asia, etc.

On the other hand, discrimination against South Asians and/or Middle Easterners includes:

• Being seen as terrorists ^{[28] [29] [30]}
• Othered into being seen as "brown", a categorization which was extended to Southeast Asians. ^[31]

There has been an increase in the amount of psychological or mental distress which has been caused by the aforementioned factors. ^{[32] [33] [34]} Myopic depictions of Asian cultures continues to be a problem. ^[35]

Additionally, racism in Asia (racist attitudes which Asians have towards each other as well as racist attitudes which Asians have towards non-Asians) is also impacted by differences in nationality as well as regional differences.

See also

• Afrophobia
• Anti-Afghan sentiment
• Anti-Arab racism
• Anti-Armenian sentiment
• Anti-Azerbaijani sentiment
• Anti-Bengali sentiment in India
• Anti-Chinese sentiment
• Anti-Europeanism
• Anti-Hungarian sentiment
• Anti-Indian sentiment
• Anti-Indonesian sentiment
• Anti-Iranian sentiment
• Anti-Japanese sentiment
• Anti-Khmer sentiment
• Anti-Korean sentiment
• Anti-Kurdish sentiment
• Anti-Malay sentiment
• Anti-Middle Eastern sentiment
• Anti-Mongolianism
• Anti-Pakistan sentiment
• Anti-Palestinianism
• Anti-Filipino sentiment
• Anti-Qing sentiment
• Anti-Romani sentiment
• Anti-Russian sentiment
• Antisemitism
• Anti-Slavic sentiment
• Anti-Thai sentiment
• Anti-Tibetan sentiment
• Anti-Turkish sentiment
• Anti-Vietnamese sentiment
• Anti-Western sentiment
• Asian American activism
• Discrimination based on skin tone
• Dusky Peril
• Ethnocentrism
• Hispanophobia
• Historical race concepts
• Index of racism-related articles
• Interminority racism in the United States
• Islamophobia
• Mormon teachings on skin color
• Nativism (politics)
• Nativism in United States politics
• Negrophobia
• Racial discrimination
• Racial hierarchy
• Racial hygiene
• Racial segregation
• Racism against African Americans
• Racism against Native Americans in the United States
• Racism by country
• Racism in Africa
• Racism in the Arab world
• Racism in Asia
• Racism in Australia
• Racism in Europe
• Racism in Israel
• Racism in Jewish communities
• Racism in Muslim communities
• Racism in North America
• Racism in South America
• Racism in the State of Palestine
• Slavery in the United States
• Tatarophobia
• White backlash
• White flight
• White nationalism
• White pride
• White supremacy
• Yellow Peril
• Xenophobia
• Xenophobia and discrimination in Turkey
• Xenophobia and racism in the Middle East
• Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Xenophobia in the United States

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