Pandemic Era Sparks Both Anxiety and Activism for Asian Americans nyu.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nyu.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pandemic Era Sparks Both Anxiety and Activism for Asian Americans nyu.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nyu.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Attacks against the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander community have been rising during the pandemic. Dr. Sherry Wang, a professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University, explains the layers of racial trauma involved.
Kimmy Yam, NBC News, December 23, 2020
In a year that saw the closing of businesses, skyrocketing unemployment and ongoing hate incidents concurrent with the public health crisis, the severity of Asian Americans’ struggles has been minimized at best or gone unnoticed at worst, experts say.
Many trace the invisibility of the community’s challenges, in part, to the mythical characterization of the racial group as compliant, successful and faring well tropes that have long obscured the reality of their struggles.
Asian Americans are the racial group least likely to reach out for help. And that fact coupled with an already existing belief that AAPIs don’t struggle has only exacerbated pandemic-related problems for the community.
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