Retaliation Against Asian Students in the US ?

Question

Just now Dian Sawyer of ABC and other TV sources reported there is a widespread fear griping all US campus. Last night CNN also reported that most Korean students at VT left in fear of retaliation, even though they are not that kind of type----Cho is isolated incident. But the rumor or deliberate racial blaming create nervousness among Korean students, and Chinese students on all other universities across the US. Right now the East Asian parents, who have kids at the US campus, have reasons to be anxious if their kids could be retaliated.

Hi, aLex has a good point.
Korean English papers say Cho is 1 and 1/5 Korean-American. But US media said he is a permenent resident alien---a Korean national

Which one is right?

Answer 1

It would not surprise me if people did something dumb like retaliate against Asian students. It is terrible how ignorant and close minded some people can be. After 9/11, there were 3 attacks on my college campus against "Middle Eastern looking" students including one of my friends being held by his ankles over a bridge while 3 kids yelled go back to Afghanistan, he was not even of middle easter decent. People overreact and try to blame innocent people in a horrible time like this. It really is sad that innocent Asian students who are already in mourning also have to live in fear.

Answer 2

It's funny how the asians take flight in this instance, and still others look for sympathy cos they are asian as well. No one recalls that they were looking for a white man in the beginning? Would any of the asians have left if the suspect were Black or Puerto Rican or Mexican? Most likely not. It appears, I'm not saying it is for sure, but is appears that our asian friends are diverting attention from the real issues, and looking for dispensation, and are ashamed of the discrase that cho-cho has bestowed upon them. Asians are not supposed to do those sort of things, that's Blacks and Hispanics, and only white people are crazy, isn't that right, waiching liu? No one cares that it was an asian that stalked and murdered and filmed and documented his insane jealousy of white middle-class America. The fact remains - he did it, he was asian, and he did things not stereotypically asian. Too bad. Too damn bad. There is no way the "asian scare" would ever compare to the way my Black Brothers and Sisters, and my Latino and Latina Brothers and sisters are treated, by everyone - including asians. So, watch who you try messing with, Americans are Americans, and you need to respect that. It's very difficult to see how he could complain about rich people when he had much more than the average college student, including the money for his guns, and web cam, and internet related activity. You can not rely on British publications to give you the facts about an incident the day after it happened when the witnesses haven't even been identified, nor had the gift arrived at NBC. You'd better recognize!

Answer 3

Where was the retaliation against the white Columbine killers? Asian should not be fearful of anything. Anyone who is retarded enough to suggest that Asians now are a threat solely because of Cho is just really really dumb and doesn't know how to think critically. Racists will grab at whatever scraps they can to further their twisted agendas. They're just dumb like that. Sorry if I offend you dumb racists but its true. There have been waaaay more white serial killers than any other race and the white males typically do these sorts of things. Again, sorry but it's the truth. It's so annoying how these dimwitted dolts will try to turn everything bad that happens in the world into this genetic flaw among certain races.

Don't worry. MOST people are smart enough to know where to connect the dots. And the dots do not lead to the Asian culture. And even though Korea has different customs and outlooks on certain things, the fact that born-Americans have committed acts against mankind just as horrific denounces any reasoning that one particular culture is prone to violence over others.

Answer 4

I just wanna say something about the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus. "Seung-Ho"(23) was actually a person
who moved to the U.S when he was 8 years old, which means that he has gotten a U.S Greencard, so we may say
he is actually an American not a Korean, then medias should not saying that he is a Korean. Beside, at this
moment, people may have racial discrimination to any other Asian countries, however, other Asian countries
did not do this!! We should think about his environment and education such things in the U.S. His family was
poor and they have decided to moved to the U.s. He adopted the U.S education and lived in U.S environment for
15 years, then do you really think he is a Korean? I want to remind that American should not put the accusation
on Korea, and to face it that he is an American. America is a wonderful country, people are all friendly, then
just need to understand this point. Here, I really wanna say the medias are the chief instigator which are trying
to ask American attack Asian. We should asked, what the hell he has learned and not just doing some stupid thing to other innocent Asian. In deed,
one thing by one thing, we can not get even with another people, if we do, we are just like the people who
are guilty in the world. Finally, again, "Seung-Ho" has died and we should let thing goes, and we should not
take this event to be an excuse and do something bad to other people, cause every corcon have
good person and bad man.

Answer 5

It has some part in it, it really was a result of the cold war, the way America instigated Russia to invade Afghanistan (Russia's Vietnam), training Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban, then turning away to leave them to themselves. It was the West's Middle-Eastern Politics as a whole. I remember watching a program about American influence in Egypt. A man, from the other side of the tracks, was pointing to a Marlboro bill-board and a McDonald sign. He said rich Egyptian kids were buying all the "American" stuff, all he could do is look at the pictures but couldn't feed his family. For that man, anything American was really, really bad.... That's how the hate was created.

Answer 6

To retaliate against Asians, or Koreans in general over one isolated incident is stupid. This is a once-in-a-lifetime incident that happened to be committed by a deranged South Korean kid. That's all?

Now Islam is a different story. Unfortunately most major terrorist attacks since 1995 have been committed by one select group of people. Here statistics tells us a different story, and we shouldn't turn a blind eye to this for the sake of political correctness. In other words we shouldn't be strip searching little old ladies at airports.

Answer 7

I think everybody, not just Asians, should be careful for the next few weeks, as there could be an attempt at a copycat crime.
And since this was a traumatic event for the nation, people may be jumpy and irrational for a while.
But I don't think Asian students have more to fear than anybody else. Everybody knows that this kind of event has nothing to do with race or nationality. Most mass murderers in the US have been white, naturally.

Answer 8

I was actually kind of shocked that it the killer was Asian, I thought it was done by a Caucasian person, then again I thought at first the DC sniper was white but turned out to be black. I kind of figured that this is the kind of stuff crazy white people do. By the way I am white. Any ways Asians and Koreans in general should not fear anything just because one person did something very bad. Killers come in all shapes and colors unfortunately !

Answer 9

Any moron who attacks asians is way out of line. This is a tragedy but should not be used as an excuse to somehow stereotype asians. I have worked for years in asia and can tell you it is a place where you feel very safe and can only admire how disciplined and well behaved most people are. This guy is sadly more a product of US culture and how screwed up it is.

Answer 10

There's not enough sorrow with the tragedy that more has
to be added by total idiots ? -- why don't folks realize that this
wasn't a political, sexist, racial or anything other than a terrible
tragedy ? There is no one ro retaliate against for any reason