Asian-American Hate Crimes

   In the U.S. alone we have a lot of Asian-Americans living among us.  Asian-Americans are definitely more now in this country than ever before. "According to the 2000 census, over 12 million Asian Americans, almost 70 percent of them either immigrants who came to the U.S. after 1970 or their children, comprised an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse population that was more regionally dispersed throughout the U.S. than ever before" (Kim,2007,p.75).  With this being stated we know that lot of Asian-Americans live among the U.S. in various communities.  Also Asian-Americans seem to be doing pretty well for themselves in this country.
        However, when the World War II broke out there was a lot of hatred towards Asian-Americans for various reasons, but with this being said even though times have changed their still is some animousity felt towards Asian-Americans. "A legal defense fund representing Asian Americans also is asking for a federal probe of alleged hate crimes in the State University of New York system." (Dervarics,2000,p.7).  There is very little known about Asian-Americans hate crimes, because it is not talked about as often as other ethnic groups, but they still recieve hatred.
     Asian-Americans are very hard-working and truly make themselves successful when they come to the U.S. or if they have already been brought up here they want to achieve the American dream.  More and more Asian-Americans are coming to the U.S. and even our neighboring country Canada and they are no longer residing in their own communities i.e. chinatowns.  As a result of this "case of hate crimes directed at Asian-Americans in a largely Jewish neighbourhood with a growing Asian-American immigrant population" (Bangarth,Hall,Hwang, 2001,p.176).  North America in general needs to be more opening of intermixing our people and not stay ignorant and keep repeating history by remaining intolerant



References:

Dervarics, C. (2000). Congress takes on hate crimes. Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 17(11), 7.

Kim, Barbara. (2007). The ties that bind: asian american communities without "ethnic spaces" in southeast michigan. Ethnic Studies Review, 30(1/2), 75.

Bangarth, S, Hall, P, & Hwang, V. (2001). Anti-asian violence in north america: asian american and asian canadian reflections on hate, healing and resistance. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 33(2), 176-177