Not remembering colleague's name the next hate crime?
The Cost of Being an ‘Interchangeable Asian’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/business/the-cost-of-being-an-interchangeable-asian.html
White-collar professionals are preparing to return to the office after more than a year of working from home. It hasn’t been a year of just video calls and Zoom happy hours, though. In the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement that soon swept the nation, it’s been a year of reckoning over racial injustice in America. In the corporate world, that injustice manifests in unequal career opportunities for professionals of color. The country has also seen a rise in hate crimes against people of Asian descent, with victims who have been beaten, verbally assaulted and, at worst, killed. In response, many companies have begun “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs aimed at recalibrating their office cultures to be more supportive of minority workers.
But as a first step, what many Asian American professionals need is simple. They want their colleagues to bother to learn their names.
Yes, it’s probably happened to all of us, no matter our identity: An acquaintance or colleague mistakes you for another person with the same hairdo or a similar name. But for people of Asian descent, it happens without question when there are a few other Asians in the office, even when they look and sound nothing alike.
4 comments:
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Want to look at the average income of an Asian American to that of other groups. I think they doing ok. I agree that there is some discrimination when it comes to university admissions which should be stopped. I simply do not buy this idea of interchangeable Asian as being proposed in this article. Please provide some evidence. The NYT of 2021 is a far cry from what it was in 2000, 1990 and so on. There is indeed some anti-asian hate crime but again you might want to look at the statistics on that to get a better idea of what is going on .
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" The country has also seen a rise in hate crimes against people of Asian descent, with victims who have been beaten, verbally assaulted and, at worst, killed."
This has been going on for about 30 years, and the Bay Area is one of the hotspots. It picked up the last year to do Covid. If you really want make progress on this issue you need to have a honest and hard "conversation" about what is actually going on.
Last week I went to dim sum with my Hong Kong born wife. The waitress, who was also from HK, swore she met her at the airport and they had talked. Never happened. The waitress confused her for someone else. This has happened before. My wife will not be filing a hate crime report or writing an editorial in The NY Times.
There is no such thing as Interchangeable Asian. It was simply made up by the writer. Show me evidence, numbers and data, something they will never ever do. Math is the enemy of the woke.
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