According to US media reports, the United States seems to have recently set off a round of discrimination against Asians. In the first wave of discrimination against Asians this year, more than 9,000 cases of reports and complaints were received alone, breaking the record of the same period; the US investigation agency said that in recent years, especially after the Floyd incident last year, the status of blacks in society has become higher and higher, and racial discrimination against blacks has shown a downward trend, but they did not expect that Asians seem to have become "scapegoats" and become a new focus.
Yesterday, Tokyo gymnastics Olympic champion Sunisha Lee was interviewed by the US media. He told the host what happened to him: Last month, while out waiting for a bus with other Asian female friends, he was attacked by a group of unidentified people. When a car suddenly slowed down as it passed, the people in the car attacked Sunisha and the others with profanity and insults; before she could react, pepper bottles and powder were thrown from the car, which frightened them; and some people leaned out and shouted at them, "Go back to where you came from!" ”
Sunisha Lee expressed her frustration, telling reporters: "I was angry, but there was nothing I could do and I couldn't control because they just walked away." When asked by reporters why she hadn't taken any measures, she said, "I couldn't do anything to them because it was so hard." The people in the car didn't seem to know the Olympic champion at the time, but fortunately she was not attacked, and there were similar cases where the car stopped immediately because an Asian person fought back against the insulter's remarks, and several people jumped from above beat him to 4 fractures and concussions, and the police did not catch anyone.
According to the social survey agency, a significant number of discrimination offenders believe that Asians "will not fight back or will not fight back fiercely" and that they can enjoy the thrill of bullying. Previously, the white American community also humiliated black people on various occasions, but they were often retaliatory, especially in recent years, when the "rights consciousness" of the black community has become more and more awakened. Coupled with government legislation to protect ethnic minority groups against discrimination, in recent years it has rarely seen people who dare to openly provoke or insult black people on the road, and those exposed "can easily lose their jobs, be expelled or even be thrown into prison;" but in the survey, they mentioned that their street interviews and crowd surveys showed that Asian groups have 56% less verbal and physical counterattacks than African-American groups, and the frequency of alarms is more than 34%, which is a huge difference.
Therefore, some people who work in law enforcement agencies do not agree with Sunisha's "no way" statement. They told reporters: "The police welcome any type of report, or that you can call the police immediately and record their license plate number just because you have suffered verbal insults in your life." People often refuse to call the police for fear of trouble or reprisals, which only makes the racists even more mad, and more similar incidents will occur later, and social rules always do. ”