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Anti-Racism Protests Spark Conversations Within Chinese Immigrant Families

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   WASHINGTON - Twenty-year-old Eileen Huang is an English major at Yale
   University. Growing up in a Chinese immigrant family in a small town in
   New Jersey, racism in the United States was a topic she rarely
   discussed with her parents.

   But earlier this month, her open letter, [1]"A Letter from a Yale
   student to the Chinese American Community"provoked a rare debate in the
   Chinese community in the U.S. and on Chinese social media.

   Since George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American, died in police
   custody in late May, protests against racism have spread across
   communities throughout the United States, changing attitudes among
   millions of Americans about the legacy of slavery and discrimination
   that still impacts Black Americans.

   According to a recent survey by the [2]Pew Research Center, nearly 70%
   of Americans now support the Black Lives Matter movement and 69% of
   respondents said they had spoken to others about race in the past
   month.

   Both political parties in Congress have also introduced bills aimed at
   reforming the police system.

   For many first-generation Chinese immigrant families and Asian
   immigrant families, racism in the U.S. was not something that was
   regularly discussed, according to some Chinese American activists. But
   that has been changing recently.

References

   1. https://chineseamerican.org/p/31571
   2. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/06/12/amid-protests-majorities-across-racial-and-ethnic-groups-express-support-for-the-black-lives-matter-movement/

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