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Asian Americans are reporting varied forms of job discrimination, with complicating factors – cultural and economic – that make it extra hard for them to win rights, wages and benefits, a panel told D.C. unionists on May 21.

The panel, at a Workers Rights hearing called by the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), an AFL-CIO constituency group, drew agreement from the room full of attendees including from AFL-CIO education coordinator David Carpio and from former Service Employee Union organizer Miya Chen, now a White House liaison on Asian-American issues.

Speakers ranged from an activist for nail salon workers – who noted two-thirds of her colleagues are “independent contractors” deprived of labor law protections – to a young Thai woman who just finished her 5-year apprenticeship training with Electrical Workers Local 26 and will become a journeyman electrician on June 4.

They also included a Filipina teacher whose union, the Prince Georges County, Md., Education Association, went to bat for Filipina teachers whom the county schools illegally forced to pay various Visa fees. The Obama administration Labor Department fined the county school system millions of dollars in the case.

Job discrimination against Asian Americans is important: They’re the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S., and now number 15 million nationwide. Their share of the U.S. workforce doubled in the last decade. And the 2010 census showed double-digit percentage increases in the Asian American population in many states, including Maryland (up 51 percent) and Virginia (more than 70 percent).

Asian Americans tackle job discrimination

Unfortunately, Asian Americans, while being discriminated, tends to under-report to the right people, which would probably tell the rest of the society that nothing bad is happening, which isn't the case. Alyssa Rosenberg has found out that Asian Americans only filed 3.26% of discrimination complaints in her article "Asian Americans employees underreport discrimination, report finds." 3.26% is a really low percent and telling the discrimination to people in the community doesn't count towards the percent either. It's logical to let the community to know what's going on so they can try to find ways around it but it's also more logical to report this to the authority so that they can deal with it. Rosenberg stated that Asian Americans are "less likely to think the complaint process would be helpful to them. It is understandable to think that the authorities wouldn't help them because they happen to be the same race that discriminated them but at the same time, not all of them are racist.

Asianlife.com - Magazine

Although when we think of discrimination in the workplace, we tend to focus on groups such as African-Americans and Latinos, discrimination against Asians is present as well, though it generally is more subtle.

A novel published late last year called "The Partner Track", by Amy Wan, describes the efforts of Ingrid Yung, a young Asian-American woman (known as a "two-fer", a minority and a female) to achieve partnership in a prestigious Washington law firm. Having toiled in the transactional trenches for eight years, structuring complex deals for major corporations, she is on the brink of becoming the firm's first minority, female partner. At the firm's summer outing, three white, male lawyers perform a rap parody, replete with the N-word, while wearing fake gold teeth and cornrows. After video footage of this performance goes viral online, creating a PR disaster, the firm conscripts Ingrid for damage control, due to her twofer status. The dual stresses of running a demanding deal and playing the model minority thrust Ingrid into a maelstrom of race, class and sexual politics. Throw in a messy workplace romance with a fellow senior associate and her partnership bid is in trouble.

In a recent Washington Post article (“I’ve always thought your people were very bright.” N. Va. native’s novel explores the “bamboo ceiling”), Amy Wan was quoted as stating that in the annals of American employment discrimination, "quiet" and "hardworking" may not seem like the worst way to be characterized, but such seemingly benign stereotypes, much like the term "model minority," mask a less benign truth backed by reams of research: members of the country's most highly educated racial group are among the least likely to make it to the top in corporate America.

Asian Americans fare as poorly as other minority groups when it comes to the top jobs at the nation's 500 largest companies. Only eight of those companies are led by Asian Americans, and only 2.6 percent of the seats on the corporate boards of Fortune 500 companies are held by Asian Americans, according to research by Diversity Inc. and the think tank Catalyst. One in five Asian Americans surveyed by Pew said "they have personally been treated unfairly in the past year because they are Asian," and one in 10 have been called an offensive name.

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In a study done at Wharton, researchers emailed 6,500 professors from 89 different disciplines at over 200 college institutions posing as students seeking meeting time with the professor. The only difference in these emails was the sender’s name: varying from Brad Anderson to Meredith Roberts to Deepak Patel to Chang Wong. Individuals with stereotypical white male names (i.e. Brad Anderson) were 25% more likely to receive a response over both women and minorities. Faculty at private, more prestigious universities were more likely to discriminate, and racial bias was more pervasive against Asian students. Katharine Milkman, the author of the study told Asian Fortune “Our work highlights that students of Asian descent face significant discrimination along one important pathway in Academia. In fact, students with Indian and Chinese names faced the most bias of any minority groups studied in our research (which included Black, Hispanic, Indian and Chinese students).”

There are signs that workplace discrimination among Asian Americans may be the worst of any racial or ethnic minority group. According to a Gallup Poll, 30-31% of AAPIs surveyed reported incidents of employment discrimination, the largest of any group, with African Americans constituting the second largest at 26%. However, despite this high percentage of perceived workplace discrimination, AAPIs only filed about 2-3% of the total employment discrimination complaints received by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against private employers.

Workplace Discrimination Based On Names - Asian Fortune

Now STFU.

You're talking about people in school or people with jobs. Paul is complaining that whites don't give blacks enough jobs. Most zipperheads are happy to be here. Unlike you pathetic lot.

No that's not what Paul is talking about. You don't know any Asians. Now you really need to talk about something else white man who has been given everything by the government. You and your ancestors.

Look, white people built this country. Black people built Africa. You prefer living with whites than your own kind. 'Nuff said.

White people didn't build this country. I was born here. My family has been here longer than yours. We are more American than you.

America's Wealth......From the Backs of Our Ancestors

Black people built black neighbourhoods. 'Nuff said.

I guess the White house and the entire Ivy League is the black neighborhood.

And of course there is Tulsa

Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre



And Rosewood

THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE OF 1923



And Omaha



Chicago



Atlanta

When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

East St. Louis

KETC | Living St. Louis | East St. Louis Race Riots

Psychosis is the inability to deal with reality. You want to assert opinions using one half of an inaccurate story.

You are mentally retarded.

 

[Taz]

You're talking about people in school or people with jobs. Paul is complaining that whites don't give blacks enough jobs. Most zipperheads are happy to be here. Unlike you pathetic lot.

No that's not what Paul is talking about. You don't know any Asians. Now you really need to talk about something else white man who has been given everything by the government. You and your ancestors.

Look, white people built this country. Black people built Africa. You prefer living with whites than your own kind. 'Nuff said.

White people didn't build this country. I was born here. My family has been here longer than yours. We are more American than you.

America's Wealth......From the Backs of Our Ancestors

Black people built black neighbourhoods. 'Nuff said.

I guess the White house and the entire Ivy League is the black neighborhood.

And of course there is Tulsa

Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre



And Rosewood

THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE OF 1923



And Omaha



Chicago



Atlanta

When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

East St. Louis

KETC | Living St. Louis | East St. Louis Race Riots

Psychosis is the inability to deal with reality. You want to assert opinions using one half of an inaccurate story.

You are mentally retarded.

You're living in the past.

 

[Paul Essien]

Maybe people just don't like you. It would be understandable.

You notice when white supremacists talk about racism, they start trolling and acting silly

 

[Paul Essien]

We all come from Africa, but my line of descent had enough sense to lose the black pigment.

Don't matter. The first people on Earth were black. So that means the black man and women are the mothers and fathers of humanity. So once again. What you doing on our Earth ?

 

[Taz]

We all come from Africa, but my line of descent had enough sense to lose the black pigment.

Don't matter. The first people on Earth were black. So that means the black man and women are the mothers and fathers of humanity. So once again. What you doing on our Earth ?

Trying to help the black man.

 

[IM2]

No that's not what Paul is talking about. You don't know any Asians. Now you really need to talk about something else white man who has been given everything by the government. You and your ancestors.

Look, white people built this country. Black people built Africa. You prefer living with whites than your own kind. 'Nuff said.

White people didn't build this country. I was born here. My family has been here longer than yours. We are more American than you.

America's Wealth......From the Backs of Our Ancestors

Black people built black neighbourhoods. 'Nuff said.

I guess the White house and the entire Ivy League is the black neighborhood.

And of course there is Tulsa

Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre



And Rosewood

THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE OF 1923



And Omaha



Chicago



Atlanta

When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

East St. Louis

KETC | Living St. Louis | East St. Louis Race Riots

Psychosis is the inability to deal with reality. You want to assert opinions using one half of an inaccurate story.

You are mentally retarded.

You're living in the past.

It's the same past you lived in when you claimed whites built America.

 

[IM2]

We all come from Africa, but my line of descent had enough sense to lose the black pigment.

Don't matter. The first people on Earth were black. So that means the black man and women are the mothers and fathers of humanity. So once again. What you doing on our Earth ?

Trying to help the black man.

If we were here first it is apparent we don't need your help.

 

[Taz]

We all come from Africa, but my line of descent had enough sense to lose the black pigment.

Don't matter. The first people on Earth were black. So that means the black man and women are the mothers and fathers of humanity. So once again. What you doing on our Earth ?

Trying to help the black man.

If we were here first it is apparent we don't need your help.

Look at Africa, yes, you do need our help.

 

[Taz]

Look, white people built this country. Black people built Africa. You prefer living with whites than your own kind. 'Nuff said.

White people didn't build this country. I was born here. My family has been here longer than yours. We are more American than you.

America's Wealth......From the Backs of Our Ancestors

Black people built black neighbourhoods. 'Nuff said.

I guess the White house and the entire Ivy League is the black neighborhood.

And of course there is Tulsa

Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre



And Rosewood

THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE OF 1923



And Omaha



Chicago



Atlanta

When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

East St. Louis

KETC | Living St. Louis | East St. Louis Race Riots

Psychosis is the inability to deal with reality. You want to assert opinions using one half of an inaccurate story.

You are mentally retarded.

You're living in the past.

It's the same past you lived in when you claimed whites built America.

It's ok to remember history, but you're living in it. I don't think that whites are STILL the only ones building the US. Big difference.

 

[IM2]

We all come from Africa, but my line of descent had enough sense to lose the black pigment.

Don't matter. The first people on Earth were black. So that means the black man and women are the mothers and fathers of humanity. So once again. What you doing on our Earth ?

Trying to help the black man.

If we were here first it is apparent we don't need your help.

Look at Africa, yes, you do need our help.

Yes lets look at Africa, a continent ruined by whites "helping" us.

 

[Paul Essien]

Trying to help the black man.

Help the black man ? Why would white supremacists who have been historically been the enemy of black people suddenly want to turn the other cheek and act right ?

 

[IM2]

White people didn't build this country. I was born here. My family has been here longer than yours. We are more American than you.

America's Wealth......From the Backs of Our Ancestors

Black people built black neighbourhoods. 'Nuff said.

I guess the White house and the entire Ivy League is the black neighborhood.

And of course there is Tulsa

Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre



And Rosewood

THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE OF 1923



And Omaha



Chicago



Atlanta

When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

East St. Louis

KETC | Living St. Louis | East St. Louis Race Riots

Psychosis is the inability to deal with reality. You want to assert opinions using one half of an inaccurate story.

You are mentally retarded.

You're living in the past.

It's the same past you lived in when you claimed whites built America.

It's ok to remember history, but you're living in it. I don't think that whites are STILL the only ones building the US. Big difference.

You're living in history dipshit, history doesn't end until the end of days. Whites never were the only ones building this country retard. However the fact is that TODAY whites are doing exactly the things we are talking about. You being one of them. You live in an imaginary world that doesn't exist.

 

[Taz]

We all come from Africa, but my line of descent had enough sense to lose the black pigment.

Don't matter. The first people on Earth were black. So that means the black man and women are the mothers and fathers of humanity. So once again. What you doing on our Earth ?

Trying to help the black man.

If we were here first it is apparent we don't need your help.

Look at Africa, yes, you do need our help.

Yes lets look at Africa, a continent ruined by whites "helping" us.

Ya, because blacks have zero responsibility for anything, we get it. Now go cry somewhere else.

 

[Taz]

Trying to help the black man.

Help the black man ? Why would white supremacists who have been historically been the enemy of black people suddenly want to turn the other cheek and act right ?

It's never too late to do the right thing. Like for you finishing high school, it's never too late.

 

[Taz]

Black people built black neighbourhoods. 'Nuff said.

I guess the White house and the entire Ivy League is the black neighborhood.

And of course there is Tulsa

Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre



And Rosewood

THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE OF 1923



And Omaha



Chicago



Atlanta

When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

East St. Louis

KETC | Living St. Louis | East St. Louis Race Riots

Psychosis is the inability to deal with reality. You want to assert opinions using one half of an inaccurate story.

You are mentally retarded.

You're living in the past.

It's the same past you lived in when you claimed whites built America.

It's ok to remember history, but you're living in it. I don't think that whites are STILL the only ones building the US. Big difference.

You're living in history dipshit, history doesn't end until the end of days. Whites never were the only ones building this country retard. However the fact is that TODAY whites are doing exactly the things we are talking about. You being one of them. You live in an imaginary world that doesn't exist.

I live in a world where blacks do nothing except complain.

 

[Paul Essien]

It's never too late to do the right thing. Like for you finishing high school, it's never too late.

So black people finish school and then what ?

 

[Taz]

It's never too late to do the right thing. Like for you finishing high school, it's never too late.

So black people finish school and then what ?

Geez, are all bumberclydes as slow as you are?

 

[Paul Essien]

I live in a world where blacks do nothing except complain.

Black ppl don't complain enough. You should be thankful that black people don't think like whites. Because if the shoe was on the other foot ? Never mind complaining white people would have murderous rage towards black people. So it's actually the case that black folks typically “stuff” their experiences with discrimination and racism because white denial trumps claims of racism.

Black people (As a group) have not done a thing to white people (As a group)

So black rage is justified. White rage is illogical.

 

[Taz]

I live in a world where blacks do nothing except complain.

Black ppl don't complain enough. You should be thankful that black people don't think like whites. Because if the shoe was on the other foot ? Never mind complaining white people would have murderous rage towards black people. So it's actually the case that black folks typically “stuff” their experiences with discrimination and racism because white denial trumps claims of racism.

Black people (As a group) have not done a thing white people (As a group)

So black rage is justified. White rage is illogical.

You all need to move on and stop living in the past. Not all white people are how you see them, in fact, only a tiny percentage are still like that, just look at the white supremacist rallies, there's only ever a handful of people at those rallies, and way more whites protesting against them. So try not to be so delusional in your hatred of whites, although I do understand that just like there will probably never be NO kkk-types, just like there never not be blacks like you and IM2 who hate irrationally.

 

[Paul Essien]

Geez, are all bumberclydes as slow as you are?

Simple Question

You finish school, then what happens after you finish school ?