Is Racism Still a Major Problem in America?

Question

NEW YORK - Eighteen-year-old Chen Tsu was waiting on a Brooklyn subway platform after school when four high school classmates approached him and demanded cash. He showed them his empty pockets, but they attacked him anyway, taking turns pummeling his face.

He was scared and injured — bruised and swollen for several days — but hardly surprised.

At his school, Lafayette High in Brooklyn, Chinese immigrant students like him are harassed and bullied so routinely that school officials in June agreed to a Department of Justice consent decree to curb alleged "severe and pervasive harassment directed at Asian-American students by their classmates, but the case is far from isolated.

Nationwide, Asian students say they're often beaten, threatened and called ethnic slurs by other young people, and school safety data suggest that the problem may be worsening. Youth advocates say these Asian teens, stereotyped as high-achieving students who rarely fight back, have for years borne the brunt of ethnic tension as Asian communities expand and neighborhoods become more racially diverse.

Stories of Asian youth being bullied and worse are common. In recent years:

• A Chinese middle schooler in San Francisco was mercilessly taunted until his teacher hid him in her classroom at lunchtime.

• Three Korean-American students were beaten so badly near their Queens high school that they skipped school for weeks and begged to be transferred.

• A 16-year-old from Vietnam was killed last year in a massive brawl in Boston.

Answer 1

Sadly, yes.

Answer 2

Racism exists more from whites towards asians than between any other cultures at this point i believe. I'm a high school student and the unfortunate truth is that when another is doing something foolish or made a mistake, his peers often call him a "Jap" or Asian, etc. Asian slurs along with the use of Jew as an insult are seen. We need to work on this as a nation.

Answer 3

Yes it is still a huge problem. I was not aware of the racism that you mentioned, but it doesn't surprise me.

Look at our criminal justice system: the death penalty (read: legalized lynching) is enormously biased against black men.

Look at the so-called War on Terror: How many times have you heard fear-mongers go on about "Islamofascism" as though we are about to be overrun by Al Qaeda and the Taliban? People listen to this garbage and start blaming all Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent for terrorism.

Look at immigration: Sure people go on about how they "don't have a problem with immigrants, as long as they do it legally," but these are the same people who support racist vigilantes like the Minutemen.

The list goes on. This is not so much a product of individual prejudice as it is a conscious effort of the ruling class to divide the working class by pitting them against each other along ethnic lines.

Answer 4

particular my brother, i'm afraid that's. And the sorrowful element approximately that's that no person seems to be attracted to doing something approximately it anymore. all of us appear like we are content cloth to easily enable it set there and fester, like an unsightly wound on the country's psyche. in my opinion, I turly concept issues had gotten slightly extra suitable up by the 60's and '70's and '80's. yet you recognize what relatively opened my eyes? back in 'ninety 5. Yep: the OJ Simpson verdict. It confirmed how polarized this usa is. That case looked as though it may divide on racial traces. And so, that's as though, via fact that then, the two blacks and whites have in simple terms reported: "Aww-ight: so as that's how that's gonna be, huh?" a minimum of back interior the 60's and '70's civil rights activists have been attempting to do something. yet now the full race element is on the backburner. And this could basically enable it worsen. Oh-and yeah, of direction i comprehend there are different races in this usa and different kinds of racism too, yet I chosen the black-white version via fact i think that's the main reported and the ost risky to the country's wellbeing.

Answer 5

Sadly yes,It not only happens to Asians it happens to blacks too and for many years.They still have KKK members out there.It is a shame that after so many years of pain from one anothers ancestors that the future cant get along.We should start to help each other instead of harm each other.Before I die I would love to see everyong get along.We need to band together.They say that our children are our future.I am honestly scared for our future.Im 12 and not racist

Answer 6

Yes and unfortunately it will never go away due to ignorance and lack of willingness to learn about other cultures. Take a look around at some of the things people say on Yahoo! Answers...

Answer 7

At my high school, it's not a problem at all, since a little less than half the students are of Asian descent. But that's just my school. It is a problem, though.

Answer 8

A. What race were his attackers?
B. Why conclude that he was attacked because of his race, and not simply because of his vulnerability (lone guy on a subway platform?)
C. "immigrants" are bullied, so maybe it has more to do with ignorance of US society than the race of the victim.

D. if you say it is something OTHER THAN racism, your study group doesn't get funding, your group doesn't get to appear on TV and at school board meetings, and your group doesn't get to impose its agenda on the school curriculum.

Is it racism? Yes, by the groups that see skin color as green (as in money).

Answer 9

Go into the society and culture section and see how many times you can find a white person say ******.

Answer 10

Yes, it is not just Asians though.