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In lower income neighborhoods in particular, there are some forms of racial tribalism that shows its ugly head, this isn't anything particularly new.
Interminority racism in the United States - Wikipedia
What's become coined as "The Middleman theory" provides some explanation for it.
And the Asian community seems to get it bad from all sides...
Various ethnic groups in the United States have perpetrated violence against Asian-Americans. 2019 Bureau of Justice Statistics figures indicated that 27.5 percent of those committing violence were Black; 24.1 percent were white; 21.4 percent were Hispanic.
The Asian community is in a tough spot (through no fault of their own).
For staunch white racists, who refuse to be kind to anyone who isn't white, Asians are "just another minority trying to destroy 'murica"
For Black and Hispanic communities, tensions with the Asian community are multi-faceted. When a lot of Asian folks emigrate to the US, they tend to start off by opening up businesses in lower-rent communities, and only hiring other Asian people (which restricts job opportunities for other minority groups in that community)... IE: Immigrant moves here from China, opens a store next door to an existing Black-owned business, undercuts their prices, takes a lot of their business away, and then only hires other Asian immigrants to work there.
That causes some tension...
The other aspect is one of resentment. Many in the white communities (who aren't overtly racist like the staunch racists I mentioned above), often like to the prop up the Asian community as the "Model Minority". And use their successes as the standard by which they judge all other minority groups...that creates some ill will as well.
Interminority racism in the United States - Wikipedia
What's become coined as "The Middleman theory" provides some explanation for it.
And the Asian community seems to get it bad from all sides...
Various ethnic groups in the United States have perpetrated violence against Asian-Americans. 2019 Bureau of Justice Statistics figures indicated that 27.5 percent of those committing violence were Black; 24.1 percent were white; 21.4 percent were Hispanic.
The Asian community is in a tough spot (through no fault of their own).
For staunch white racists, who refuse to be kind to anyone who isn't white, Asians are "just another minority trying to destroy 'murica"
For Black and Hispanic communities, tensions with the Asian community are multi-faceted. When a lot of Asian folks emigrate to the US, they tend to start off by opening up businesses in lower-rent communities, and only hiring other Asian people (which restricts job opportunities for other minority groups in that community)... IE: Immigrant moves here from China, opens a store next door to an existing Black-owned business, undercuts their prices, takes a lot of their business away, and then only hires other Asian immigrants to work there.
That causes some tension...
The other aspect is one of resentment. Many in the white communities (who aren't overtly racist like the staunch racists I mentioned above), often like to the prop up the Asian community as the "Model Minority". And use their successes as the standard by which they judge all other minority groups...that creates some ill will as well.
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