May 25, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – After Donald Trump’s 2016 U.S. presidential election victory, Yasushi Akashi, a former under-secretary-general of the United Nations, invited me to lunch in Tokyo, at a club near the Akasaka district. “In a decade or two, U.S. demography will change so that it will be impossible to neglect the voice of the country’s nonwhite people,” Akashi said to me. “This election may be the last chance for white people to resist this change in the tide.”
Incidentally, the club where we met was owned by a
zaibatsu (business conglomerate) family that, at least at the time, did not admit women as members. But while a gender barriers exist in both Japan and the United States, America must also contend with long-standing and systemic racial inequality, as well as a related and increasingly polarized immigration debate.
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Anti-Asian hate taking mental toll on AAPI community
By: Newsy
and last updated 2021-05-14 16:21:07-04
The toll of anti-Asian incidents during this pandemic goes beyond physical attacks. For many Asian Americans and Pacific Islandersâ or AAPIs â it could also lead to sleep troubles, depression and PTSD.
That s because, psychologists we spoke to say anti-Asian hate impacts not only the victims â it can also have mental health impacts on those indirectly exposed through watching viral videos or doom scrolling online. Racialized distrust or trauma can lead to very detrimental health complications. So in addition to disturbed sleep and eating, you can also develop bad habits that lead to things like hypertension and diabetes, said psychologist Michi Fu.
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