Racism against Asians

The concept of 'racism against Asians' is most common in communities or countries where the ethnic or racial majority is non-Asian, or it is most common in communities or countries where the national character is Western. The concept is most frequently employed in reference to Anti-Asian phenomena which exist in countries which are located outside the Asian continent, such as countries which are located in Africa, Europe, North America and South America.

Racist incidences or perceptions, especially towards East or Southeast Asians, may include:

• Emasculation of Asian men against fetishizations and hypersexualisation of Asian women (yellow fever).[3][4][5][6][7][8]
  • Which causes inferiority complex and internalized racism, especially in attempting to assimilate with the majority as well as assimilating racist or anti-Asian racism themselves.[9][10]
  • Reinforced by dangerous racial science of supposed "mongoloid race" (outdated), such as lacking of sexual dimorphism between Asian men and Asian women,[11] as well as dealing with the aftershocks of the history of European colonisation of Southeast Asia and "white worship".[12][13]
• The model minority myth fails to account for the bamboo ceiling, the difficult circumstances of poorer Asians, and their marginalization and stereotyping in the media.[14][15][16][17]
  • Contradictorily being used to justify white supremacy through modes of "honorary Aryan" or "honorary whiteness" racial concepts derived from Nazism.[18][19]
  • Being used to justify racism against Black people via the model minority myth.[20]
• Are stereotyped as cold, anti-social, robotic.[21]
• Discrimination based on perceived foreignness or accent.[22]
  • Being seen as a perpetual foreigner.
• Being linked to diseases such as coronavirus.[23][24]
• Othered into being seen as "yellow" or being seen as the "yellow peril".[25][26]
• Generalizing East Asians as monolithic[27] and being ignorant of the multicultural populations of Southeast Asia, such as the existence of Melanesians in Southeast Asia, etc.

On the other hand, discrimination against South Asians and/or Middle Easterners includes:

• Being seen as terrorists[28][29][30]
• Othered into being seen as "brown", a categorization which was extended to Southeast Asians.[31]

There has been an increase in the amount of psychological or mental distress which has been caused by the aforementioned factors.[32][33][34] Myopic depictions of Asian cultures continues to be a problem.[35]

Additionally, racism in Asia (racist attitudes which Asians have towards each other as well as racist attitudes which Asians have towards non-Asians) is also impacted by differences in nationality as well as regional differences.

• Anti-Chinese sentiment
• Anti-Hungarian sentiment
• Anti-Indian sentiment
• Anti-Indonesian sentiment
• Anti-Japanese sentiment
• Anti-Khmer sentiment
• Anti-Korean sentiment
• Anti-Malay sentiment
• Anti-Middle Eastern sentiment
• Anti-Mongolianism
• Anti-Pakistan sentiment
• Anti-Filipino sentiment
• Anti-Qing sentiment
• Anti-Romani sentiment
• Anti-Tibetan sentiment
• Anti-Vietnamese sentiment
• Dusky Peril
• Index of racism-related articles
• Racism in Asia
• Tatarophobia
• Yellow Peril
• Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic