In a world where people fear for their safety. That’s so broad that it can be anybody considering how society is now. Specifically though, asian hate is something that has been increasing and has become a concern to many asian artists. Due to covid-19 asian hate crime has been more severe and musicians have unfortunately suffered the consequences. That didn’t stop them from making a change by being a voice that wasn’t left unheard. We need to inform people what really is occurring behind the scenes to truly stop asian hate crimes happening to pleanty of people around the world.
Asian hate, what really is it and why is it going on? Asian hate basically is when people go out of their way to verbally and or physically abuse the asian community. In one article “I Still Believe In Our City” it states”NYC hospitals saw a spike of nearly 200,000 patients, Asian and Pacific Islanders (APIs) faced an added threat: blame, racism, and xenophobia” this shows that the increase of covid-19 patient the more dangerouse Asian lives will be at risk. Many people believe that China started covid on purpose to hurt the Americans this alleged accusation affecting the whole asian community. This is all causing many people from discriminating against them and intentionally causing harm.
In the article “Anti-Asian hate crimes rose to 73% since 2020” it states “ Anti-Asian hate crimes increased more than 73 percent in 2020, according to newly corrected FBI data”
The time period of this article as well matches with the timeline of the Covid-19, this just proves my point and the severity of asian hate as the crime rate is over 50% and which is still rising till 2021.
The asian community with the tender and loving heart they have they continue trying to battle this societal conflict with music bringing peace but even then people continue with their heartless acts. In San Francisco there is a violinist with the name of David Kim. A talented person who would play classical music to bring people together but yet still would get disturbed by racism in his own music community. An article named “Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen?” written by the New York Times it states “he felt his white colleagues in San Francisco, who make up 83 percent of the orchestra, did not share his urgency about building a culture more welcoming to Asian, Black and Latino players.” This demonstrating that even with his peers knowing his background are yet not supportive to make him feel welcomed into the orchestra. Later in that article kin himself stated “I felt invisible, even though I was speaking very loudly,” Music being a passion for Mr kim but still didn’t feel comfortable or welcomed
Another famous artist based in New York city Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya , she has made many art works to stop the asian hate, you can see all of her work through subways, buses, and streets from graffiti, posters and even quilted artwork. She has said she once was about to sit down in the subway somebody said” ew gross get away from me” this just demonstrates how bad this asian hate has become.
Asian hate is getting out of control after the covid 19,not only toward older people but also on younger populations. and that NEEDs to be fixed. Many Asian elderly women would get hurt for that reason. Some would get robbed, stealing their purse, and hurting them, in the worst case scenario some would get shot. Many people might say “oh it’s not that bad, that’s because they’re old so they get hurt for their loot” which is false, because younger people are getting in school by peers that “joke” around. From experience kids in my school would always bully me and say “ go back to China” “you Chinese people be eating anything” “get away from me you have covid”
“ don’t all Asian have covid” the list goes on and on and on.
In conclusion Asian hate has REALLY gotten out of control, and more people need to know and try to come together and help each other to stop covid and not sit there and blame a certain group for starting and putting all of the hate toward them. We could all stop this by working together so the Asian population can feel save by going outside without the fear of them not seeing tomorrow’s sun.
Sited sources
Temblador, Alex. “How Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Uses Art to Battle Anti-Asian Hate.” Shondaland, 2 Nov. 2021, https://www.shondaland.com/act/a35916770/amanda-phingbodhipakkiya-uses-art-stop-asian-hate/.
Venkatraman, Sakshi. “Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Rose 73% Last Year, Updated FBI Data Says.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 25 Oct. 2021, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-crimes-rose-73-last-year-updated-fbi-data-says-rcna3741
Temblador, Alex. “How Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Uses Art to Battle Anti-Asian Hate.” Shondaland, 2 Nov. 2021, https://www.shondaland.com/act/a35916770/amanda-phingbodhipakkiya-uses-art-stop-asian-hate/.
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Venkatraman, Sakshi. “Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Rose 73% Last Year, Updated FBI Data Says.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 25 Oct. 2021, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-crimes-rose-73-last-year-updated-fbi-data-says-rcna3741
