CHINESE AMERICANS IN CALIFORNIA FACING CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION AND DEALING WITH STEREOTYPES (2020-2023)

Abstract

Cultural or racial discrimination exist, and hate crimes are encouraged by their distinct cultural traditions, physical attributes, and languages. The interviewees' accounts emphasized their encounters with hate crimes and their progression during the pandemic. These anecdotes allude to the persistent cultural and social fallacies that allow anti-Asian animosity to reappear on a regular basis. Respondents recalled racist occurrences they witnessed as children and how these incidents discouraged them from expressing their cultural heritage. Racism and hatred were not limited to infancy; people were subjected to racism and hatred in schools, colleges, and jobs. The Chinese American population is diverse in language, culture, and immigration history, which affects their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps it feels more obvious to me simply because there are members of the immigrant community who are never able to make their professional degrees, but to be discriminated by physical difference that have also happened in the past where anti-Asia and anti-Chinese sentiment was born. Now that Chinese Americans have been the most valuable ethnicity in the country, they have shown their efforts to prove that they are not just a useless minority that would want to accept cultural discrimination through racism and racial stereotypes. Several movements and organizations have helped to spread the awareness of the racism and to rise the bravery to report the cases. Using historical reseach technique, information have been acquired from from secondary sources. Literature study is a process of searching for various study results or studies that will correlate with the research you are conducting. Literature studies method are also included to help varify the secondary data in pursuing the issues on the thesis.