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Stop Asian Hate;0

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/. 

“About.” I Still Believe, https://www.istillbelieve.nyc/about. 

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

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Unit 2 Essay

On this Essay I have chose to take a closer view on #stopasianhate. Stopasianhate was created to stop Asian violence due toCovid-19. Many Asian women were killed, hurt, and other cruel. How did they support that? Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya was a artist in New York that created ” I Still Believe In Our City “. Phingbodhipakkiya art”s were panels that had symbolic imagery, bright colors and even portraits for ASIAN in New York to stand their ground.She had her art everywhere including museums, galleries, conferences, classrooms, speakeasies, rallies, digital screens, and on buildings all over the world.

“I Still Believe in our city” https://www.istillbelieve.nyc/about

“I Still Believe in Our City” Public Art Campaign” https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/media/pair-believe.page

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New York

JIM ZHANG

New York

New York is one of the largest cities in the world and what’s really amazing about it is the diversity in New York. New York is filled with many cultures, languages and even some “secret” terms only the “ New Yorkers” understand. Language is a very special skill and powerful tool for humans. Languages are all on the same line when it comes to speaking but is there a “ right “ way? 

Of course not languages have evolved so much throughout time, as humans we even created a word for languages that isn’t a language but is a part of a language and we call it “SLANG”.

What really is surprising is that New York is filled with slang like “ Yurrrrrr, lit , bussin, brick, tight etc.

The funny part is that if you are not a New Yorker you would not understand because when I first moved to New York I could not understand “ It’s mad brick outside” afterwards I found out that “ Brick” means very cold.

Many people that are not from New York might say this is not proper English but that’s what truly makes us a New Yorker, it’s who we really are as a human living in New York.

There is a slang “ OcK or OcKy ” which is a super famous slang in New York. This slang is known most for the corner store chef in the back that makes your sandwiches. High Schoolers would go into corner store in the morning before class “ Ayooo OcK let me get a bacon, egg and cheese ona roll”

I grew up in North Carolina, they did not have corner stores like New York where there was one every 2 streets but there were stores that were similar to it but they never used the slang “ OcKy”.  When covid wasn’t around yet every two days out of the week before my first period class i would go to my corner store , “ Ayoo ock let me get and bacon egg and cheese ona roll”

I feel like that’s what really represents us New Yorkers, it’s more than a slang, it ‘s more like a culture to us. It shows who we are and it shows others that we represent New York. New Yorkers culture is massive to the point where I am learning new terms everyday myself. When some of my North Carolin friends come and visit I take them to a corner store and show them this is me, this is my home. When I first moved from North Carolina to New York I did not know anything about the culture and the language. It is shocking to me how far I’ve become just by living here.

Now I’m still in the learning process of becoming a full New Yorker.

Gloria Anzaldúa explored her situation with being condemned for the way she spoke in her essay How to Tame A Wild Tongue. On page 34 Anzaldúa was told “I want you to speak English” by her mother even though she was speaking it. Anzaldúa was speaking the language finally but what threw her mother off was the accent behind Anzaldúa speaking. She could not really help that she had an accent, when I first started speaking English I was very scared I had an accent with my speaking so I would always try not to talk to people because I was scared to talk but Anzaldúa was truly being herself and showing who she really is. 

Nowadays in school , I know from experience people like Anzaldúa would get bullied for her accent for being herself, her accent is who Anzaldúa is.

Language is more than a communication skill it more shows who we are as humans. It’s used to represent where we are from. Some  people don’t understand the language you are using and then they correct you in their way, they speak it then that will just make you upset in a way that they are not respecting you and your language.

:Works Cited: 

Baldwin, James. “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” 

                     The New York Times. 29 July 1979, 

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-english.html?,%2522%2520&st=cse