Abstract
Covid-19 was discovered in Wuhan China on December 1st, 2019. On March 9th, 2020, WHO (World Health Organization) officially announced Covid-19 as a pandemic. Since the declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic, Covid-19 causes a major impact in various fields. Starting from the economy, education, to human resources. The most significant is felt by Asians or people with Asian ethnicity. They start to receive racist treatment starting hate comment on social media, insults, or bad treatment from others towards them. This paper is aimed to discuss the background to the emergence of racism against Asian during the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact, especially in America. The method used is data collection taken from news and journal articles related to racism and Covid-19. The result is how Covid-19 can trigger racism against Asian in America and the form of racism and its impact to Asian in America. In conclution, some factors, such as governments that tend to be racist, the pre-existing xenophobic and exclusive government environment exacerbates the negative stigma in society. Various forms of racism starting from hate speech on social media, verbal attacks to physical violence. Racism has caused mental problems for Asian Americans, such as anxiety, depression and lack of confidence to their identity as Americans.
Highlights
Covid-19 was discovered in Wuhan, China, on December 1 2019
Because Covid-19 is a virus that is found in China, this is enough to lead to a negative stigma against culture in China, which is a country in Asia, which in the end, is aimed at Asian people outside of China
Since the Since the Covid-19 outbreak, Asian Americans have been more likely to feel targeted by racism
Summary
Covid-19 was discovered in Wuhan, China, on December 1 2019. This virus is a family with the type of coronavirus that caused SARS in 2003. In terms of human resources, the most significant impact is felt by Asians or Asian ethnicities. They begin to get bad treatment, ranging from hate comments on social media, insults to being harassed physically. The emergence of Covid -19, which is known to have been discovered for the first time in China's Wuhan, has contributed to the increase in unpleasant incidents experienced by Chinese and Asian groups on a large scale. Recent reports indicate a surge in prejudice and discrimination against Asians in America that has been linked to Covid-19. [6]
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