Harvard / NPR poll of Asian Americans

[ucbalumnus]

This is part of a series; there were previously released reports of polls of African Americans and Native Americans.

https://www.npr.org/assets/news/2017/12/discriminationpoll-asian-americans.pdf

Previous reports:

https://www.npr.org/assets/img/2017/10/23/discriminationpoll-african-americans.pdf
https://www.npr.org/documents/2017/nov/NPR-discrimination-native-americans-final.pdf

The report on Asian Americans has this tidbit, among other things:

@the report

Overall, 12% of Asian Americans say that they or a family member have been unfairly stopped or treated by the police because they are Asian. Indian Americans are more likely (17%) than Chinese Americans (2%) to say they have been unfairly stopped or treated by the police.

Probably not surprising, since some Indian Americans may superficially resemble African Americans, so they may be targeted by racist-against-black-people people who call police to report a “suspicious person”, or who are police.

[Cardinal_Fang]

Indian-Americans can easily be mistaken for Hispanic, too. Law enforcement personnel who intend to unfairly stop Mexicans can end up unfairly stopping Indian-Americans.

[romanigypsyeyes]

I was thinking Indian Americans may mistaken for Muslim (and many are Muslim). Especially Sikhs.

[sorghum]

How do they know it is “because” they are Asian?

[FallGirl]

It makes me both angry and sad that people are stopped because of the color of their skin. It is reality , but a very shameful one.