
Anti-Asian Racism & Violence: past, present and futur
Ever since the first Asians arrived in America, there has been anti-Asian racism. This includes prejudice and acts of discrimination. For more than 200 years, Asian Americans have been denied equal rights, subjected to harassment and hostility had their rights revoked and imprisoned for no justifiable reason, physically attacked, and murdered.
From Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 till now there are many cases symbolizing discrimination and racism behaviors against Asian-Americans. These behaviors have sought to deny Asian-Americans' right of land ownership, citizenship and other rights in state and federal level. In some important times these treatment became harsher such as unjustified imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II, just because of their ethnic ancestry.
Asian-Americans have been, also, scapegoat during problems occurred in American society, political or economical during recent decades. One of these cases is the murder of Vincent chin in 1982, one who was beaten to his death by two white men because they blamed him and other Japanese automakers for current recession, although Vincent was a Chinese. In trial court both White men were just punished for $ 3,700 with no confinement. After developed protests by different groups and organizations another court was sentenced one of men to 25 years in prison but the latter was acquitted of his crime, because he just had held the Vincent for other man to beat him better, but in surprise of all both men in a new retrial were acquitted. The men just were fined to pay $ 1.5 million to Vincent's widow but a very little of that money was paid. Finally Mrs. Chin, distraught of all these incidents came back to China.
Another example of these cases is Dr. Wen Ho Lee ,a Chinese-American working as researcher scientist at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory on military missile system. He was charged with 59 counts of mishandling classified information and arrested.He was maltreated by criminal Justice system and even imprisoned in solitary confinement aswell as wearing leg shackles and chains for nine months.The court struggled to charge him with handling information by building a case but failed and he was acquitted of his charges.They only apologized him very briefly.
According to what Asians have seen and known about Americans' treatment toward them, they have come to ideas that if they live in America for some hundreds more, Americans will never admit them as real Americans.
What we can anticipate about this relation is that we can foresee more tensions between Asians and Americans in terms of economic, because as you know Chinese products are going to cover all over the world, it, inevitably will cause many economic problems in all countries, especially in industrial countries, such as unemployment, so Asians must be ready for more tensions as what happened in the past.

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