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Do I count as ‘Asian American’? What the history behind the term taught me TODAY 5/1/2021 Maura Hohman
During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, TODAY is sharing the community’s history, pain, joy and what’s next for the AAPI movement. We will be publishing personal essays, stories, videos and specials throughout the entire month of May.
When I saw the photos of the six Asian American women who died in the Atlanta spa shootings in May, I saw my mother, my grandmother and my godmother. The victims may have come from different places from my family and lived their own unique immigration stories, but poring over interviews and GoFundMes, I imagined their excitement amid loss when trying to build a life in a new country, and their dedication to their children felt deeply familiar.
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During the month of May, Americans applaud the accomplishments of those in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community for AAPI Heritage month, and The View joins in that celebration again in 2021.
According to a report released Thursday by the national coalition group Stop AAPI Hate, 6,603 hate incidents against Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States were reported to the organization between mid-March 2020 when the pandemic began to March 31, 2021.
The Inadequacy of the Term “Asian American” Details
MEDIA WATCH-Sarath Suong has often felt like the term “Asian American” doesn’t really serve him.
“I was told that I am Asian American when we came here,” says Suong, a Cambodian refugee who immigrated to the US as a child. “But I faced a lot of colorism, a lot of classism, and not a lot of understanding about who Southeast Asians are and how we fit into the Asian American context.”
Suong and his family were among tens of thousands of refugees who fled during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, eventually settling in the Boston area. When he arrived in the US, he struggled to find where exactly he fit in a country where everyone from teachers to neighbors made him feel unwanted.