U.S. Asian American community faces impact of pandemic combined with racism: report


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Friday, 15 Apr 2022

NEW YORK, April 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Asian Americans have faced a triple threat of racial prejudice, mental health concerns in the community and economic loss, according to a new report from the Institute for Asian American Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston).

Fifty four percent of Chinese respondents and more than a third of Vietnamese respondents said people acted afraid of them because of their race, public media organization GBH NEWS in Boston, Massachusetts, cited the report on Wednesday.

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