The outcomes illustrate that the existing tensions between China and the United States and the political and media discourses are detrimental to the way acquaintances and colleagues interact with the Chinese American subjects. Collaborative relationships are strained by racist attitudes.
Most of the participants in focus groups on the holding of Saddam His shocking findings show that a trade-holding, supply chain and geo-political dispute between the two biggest economies in the world is contributing to rising tension between the two nations and enhancing racial prejudices within the two nations.
This was part of an investigation carried out by the New York headquarters Committee of 100 A NORC survey from the University of Chicago shows that 68% of Chinese Americans report experiencing at least one type of discrimination per month, with 85% of those respondents citing race, ethnicity, accent or name as the sources of bias. Nearly half of the respondents said they were subjected to name-calling, 12% of the 570 respondents said that this kind of unwelcome behavior took more dreadful forms in the form of threats or harassment.
The 2024 State of Chinese Americans survey also revealed that a huge proportion of the community, especially the youth, and the females and sustain mental health issues as a result of discrimination, remains high. A sample of 504 Chinese adults was obtained, out of which 50% felt hopeless in the last month preceding the survey, 43% were depressed and 39% had a negative self-worth.
The results indicate that China-U.S. relations, political climate, and media have some deteriorating effects on how acquaintances and workmates of Chinese Americans treat them. There has been increasing tension recently between the two largest world economies over China’s invasion of Taiwan and watering Asia’s waters and America’s action to curtail the rabid international technological superiority and Armenia driven pharmaceutical business with China.
24.2 million Asian Americans were residing in the United States as of March 2022. About 5.8 million of Chinese Americans, Twenty four percent of each is a proportion of the Asian Americans in the U.S.
Four out of five respondents stated that their worry stems from language and phrases which most presidential candidates have adopted in respect to China and the U S-China concord. A staggering 61 percent of respondents disapproved of the language utilized by US media houses in their reports on China and US-China relations saying it affected their interactions with strangers and nearly a quarter stated that it affected their interactions with acquaintances and workmates too.
“It is important to know about the mental health of the Chinese Americans, discrimination against them and their political views for designing policies that are inclusive and well-informed,” remarked Cindy Tsai, acting president of Committee of 100, a US Chinese lobby group. This kind of understanding has not only value to our political debate but also enhances justice in the society.
A total of 49 questions was posed, mostly of closed kind, the spring which covered experiences of discrimination, political participation and opinions towards relations with China.
