Proudpatriot

There is a bias in the US against China. Most of it involves the poisonous products that have infected our country that originate in China. When one country appears to be importing spoiled food, poisoned pet food and baby formula and defective medical devices people do tend to get their backs up against the perceived offenders.

DECKER & TRIPLETT: China's poisonous exports - Washington Times

ptontiger16

^By your line of reasoning, we should also be extremely biased against Japan for importing those faulty, homicidal Toyotas.

lmkh70

I do not think there is racism at all toward Chinese on behalf of the white people. It is basically against white and Chinese. In admission, Hispanics and blacks are given priority. They can get in on far lessor standards. I find a certain amount of racism against me, as a white person, because I am white. I have a very very close friend who is half black and half white who has been on the receiving end of racism by other black people. I have brother married someone who is hispanic. But when we have family get togethers, the children from his inlaws (who are mostly hispanic) have verbally attacked my children for their race.

Many of my children's friends, possibly more than half, are Asian. My daughter's first boyfriend was Chinese.

I don't know if I have helped. You can PM me if you wish. People do not like to admit that there would be racism against anyone who is not Hispanic or black, but most of the racism is directed toward white people or Asian. It is very politically incorrect to admit that.

lmkh70

I will add, in the north, (Minnesota is where I was) I never saw any racism at all, between any races. Now that I live in the south, I see a lot of hate running around. When a Hispanic person was appointed superintendent, the black people skipped school and took to the streets to riot. They made a lot of racist remarks and made it clear that they did not want anyone who was Hispanic to lead their schools. They declared she did not belong here. She was legal, that was not the issue. But, they just did not want someone who was Hispanic.

I am really only around educated people now. We have a lot of Asian in our circle. Racism just is not a part of the more educated groups. I am just saying..you are not likely going to find a problem with racism at the better schools.

Proudpatriot

ptontiger16:

I didn't say we should be racist. Just that racism exists, and what the source of the racism is. The OP asked a legitimate question and I feel that many on this board are giving a very dishonest answer to the OP.

The truth is that all of these incidents have made a number of Americans distrustful of China. If the OP asked a question he/she deserves a real answer. The real answer is that not all Americans are racist against the Chinese but some are, and the basis of the racism is rooted in recent incidents where Chinese products have been found to be defective in a deadly sort of way.

Whether Americans SHOULD be racist against the Chinese is a completely different topic and should not cloud the OP's post. I'm sorry if it offended your sensibilities but the OP asked a question and deserves an answer.

bluenotebook2

urban/suburban CA-er here.

I haven't seen that much, in all honesty. I have noticed that as far as social circles, asians kind of tend to stick together in my high school. Stereotyping happens–*most definitely– but people are very accepting, at least from what I've seen, to Chinese people.

I know this is going to sound uber-superficial, but your accent will make a big difference as to how you're treated here. If you sound American, you'll be absolutely fine, but I think I have seen some bigotry to people who had an accent/ did not act like they were born and brought up in the US.

ptontiger16

Okay, the truth is that many Americans are xenophobic. Racism isn't directed solely against one race here. Americans dislike Hispanics, even legal ones, because of the aura that the media has associated them with. Americans discriminate against Native Americans just because that's the way it has always been. My point is that while racism exists, it's directed against many racial categories, not just one.
And the ones who do discriminate are often uneducated and forget that their ancestors, too, had to have come from somewhere. At least the Chinese didn't come to America to massacre its indigenous peoples.

d32h53o

Just focus on why your here and have a great academic year!