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Drunk. The View. Ching-chong.'" [15] The Asian American Journalists Association said her comments were "a mockery of the Chinese language and, in effect, a perpetuation of stereotypes of Asian Americans as foreigners or second-class citizens... and gives the impression that they are a group that is substandard to English-speaking people". [16]
(US) a racial term used to refer to Filipino guerillas during the Philippine–American War. The term came from gugo, the Tagalog name for Entada phaseoloides or the St. Thomas bean, the bark of which was used by Filipinas to shampoo their hair. The term was a predecessor to the term gook, a racial term used to refer to all Asian people. [70 ...
Several Asian American groups gathered in the Chinatown district of Los Angeles Thursday afternoon to call for comedian Shane Gillis to apologize for using “offensive racial remarks” in his ...
A racist postcard by Fred C. Lounsbury, promoting the idea of the Yellow Peril (1907). Chink is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent, [1] but also used to insult people with East Asian features.
The report, which surveyed 6,200 people across ethnicities, said 32% of Asian Americans nationwide were called a slur over the past 12 months, and 29% were verbally harassed or abused.
“One way we can help combat anti-Asian racism is educating our family, friends, neighbors, and community members to know that anti-Asian rhetoric is harmful,” says Linda Ng, national president ...
Racism against Asians" (or "anti-Asian racism") refers to racist policies, discrimination against, and mistreatment of people of Asian descent by institutions and/or non-Asian people - typically in the Western world or in other countries outside Asia.
An early Filipino community in downtown Los Angeles that eventually became known as Little Manila was established in the 1920s. The area was a thriving center of Filipino commercial and cultural ...