Also, would be interesting to see a similar poll about Russians from Americans in general and Ukrainian-Americans.
Members at large of aggressor groups will be stereotyped, that's how humans work everywhere. Go to South Africa and interview locals about people from "up north".
The people who were born in the same town as I was, who speak undifferentiable standard US English, send their kids to local schools, etc.?
However, I'm unsure if anything tangible can be discerned about Americans' attitudes toward "Asian Americans." There are simply too many cultures represented that share not enough in common. Even "Hispanics" (a vexing, incoherent classification) have more in common than Asian Americans.
If you don't know what you're measuring, it's hard to understand the data and give it appropriate context.
I am therefore apparently an Asian, something that never occurred to me.
IIRC, in the UK, "Asian" is understood as South Asian by default, not as East Asian in the US.
“Chinese, they don’t f*ing win! You don’t f*ing win!”
Made us both very upset
...yet on the same page the responses to "How has your opinion of Asian Americans, in general changed over the past 12 months?" overwhelmingly skew to "stayed the same" or "positive".
Maybe I'm missing something, but it certainly seems like they are trying to push a narrative that even their own data doesn't support.
If you assume that people answered honestly, it's very possible that remaining proportion of people who viewed Asian Americans negatively were more likely to express anti-Asian American racism and hate over the past year, instead of keeping quiet about their views.
Furthermore, a lot of people are biased to skew their responses or lie due to social-desirability bias [1]. The responses are self-reported. It's highly plausible that many people said their opinion "stayed the same" while actually worsening.
Most importantly, anti-Asian hate crimes have "increased by 339 percent" from 2020 to 2021 [2]. Even if you doubt the data, comparatively, crime reports are more reliable and objective than self-reports when you ask a population about their views of people of a particular ethnicity.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-c...
Aggregate polls hide the bimodal nature of American politics, which makes them largely useless in understanding what is actually happening in the population.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The parent comment link allows you to view responses by political affiliation and answers by conservatives skew greatly to a more “positive” view of Asian Americans over the past 12 months.
Just a reminder to check your biases. Everything you don’t like isn’t caused by the other political party.
How about Trump?
