A new survey found that while most Americans believe hate crimes against Asian Americans are decreasing, Asian Americans disagree. One in 3 reported being the subject of hate this past year, Axios reports. Four years after the pandemic, when the nation saw surges in anti-Asian hate, Asian Americans still feel they are targets despite anti-hate campaigns and assurance from elected officials. Americans in the survey believe hate has increased the most toward Black Americans (42%), followed by Asian Americans (33%) or Hispanic Americans (25%), according to the STAATUS Index (Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S.). In stark contrast, 61% of Asian Americans feel that hate toward them has increased, the study showed. The percentage is higher for Black Americans (73%) and lower for Latinos (41%).
Only 38% of Asian Americans completely agree they belong in the U.S., and just 18% completely agree they are accepted in the U.S. for their racial identity, the survey found. 59% of Asian Americans think it is at least somewhat likely that they will be a victim of discrimination in the next five years. Rising antisemitism, anti-Arab American and anti-Muslim incidents have dominated the news since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, taking the focus off hate crimes against Asian Americans. In another survey released by TAAF in March, 1 in 5 Asian American adults in New York City reported being physically assaulted in the past 12 months, according to a representative sample of 1,000 Asian American adults 16 and older. "It's not a competition of who gets attacked the most," said Norman Chen, CEO of The Asian American Foundation and co-founder of the STAATUS report. “I think relative to other forms of hate, the percentage of mind-share that Asian Americans are getting is lower because there are so many other different forms of hate in our society."