Scholarly Source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364747/
This source talks about literally everything that surrounds the anti-Asian hate crime from before, during, and after Covid-19. The history of treatment against Asian foreigners starting from the late 1700s was already at the level of verbal and physical violence started by individual racism but Covid-19 allowed a large growth in the spread of racism against Asians. Even politicians and president Trump promoted such racism by using the term “Chinese Virus” simply because it came from China, that term is merely one of a few terms used to describe the Covid-19 virus in a racist and xenophobic way which increases the risk of hate crime against Asians.

Magazine Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/us/asian-american-racism-coronavirus-kelly-yang.html
This source opens with an interview where a teacher was called a “Chinese virus” by one of her students on her social media, which made her freeze in shock and described it as a scarring experience in seeing that type of comment. This racism against Asians during the pandemic is not only existing on the internet where people think they are fine behind a screen but it also exists outside of social media where it can get very physical.

Newspaper Source:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/anti-asian-racism-stop-aapi-hate
An increase in acts of discrimination and racism against Asian Americans have been seen. Many cases of young Asian Americans attending school, in the public parks, and even online are being harassed while less than 10% of the cases involved bystanders intervening. Some of these stories and thoughts are being shared by young Asian Americans who are being affected by the surge of xenophobia in their lives during and after the pandemic. Surveys are showing how many of these Asian American families are in fear for the safety of themselves and their families, there are even businesses that created images or ads portraying Asians in a very bad light to increase racism against them.

Social Media Source:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/asian-racism-coronavirus-tiktok
Tik Tok videos are being made about the anti-Asian racism, these are being made by Asians to make fun of the topic itself. A lot of people are getting bothered by Asians just in general because of paranoia and the fact that the virus came from China. A Person even posted a video of how masks don’t even help lift the discrimination and glares from other people. But some of these videos include Asians helping other Asians that are being targeted by other racist people, which made one person quite glad to know that Asians are in this together.

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