Asian Americans seen negatively - Results of landmark survey called startling, disheartening

The study is about 6 years old but unless it's over 10 years old or some significant event involving Asian-Americans has occured I think you can assume most of stats are around the same. Will give my opinions after I've heard some of yours.

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Asian Americans seen negatively
Results of landmark survey called startling, disheartening
Matthew Yi and Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writers

Friday, April 27, 2001

"One in four Americans has "strong negative attitudes" toward Chinese Americans, would feel uncomfortable voting for an Asian American for president of the United States, and would disapprove of a family member marrying someone of Asian descent, according to a landmark national survey.

The results of the telephone poll conducted in the first two weeks of March were startling, said Henry Tang, chief executive officer of the Committee of 100, a Chinese American leadership organization that sponsored the survey -- the first of its kind.

"We always knew that there was some negativity out there, but we were startled at the magnitude," he said yesterday in a telephone interview. "These observations are results of many decades . . . of stereotyping inside the American society."

Tang said it is all the more disheartening that the survey of 1,216 Americans was conducted before the recent collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet off Hainan.

"The numbers are probably higher now than when the survey was done," Tang said.

As a result of the standoff over the release of the crew of the U.S. plane, which made an emergency landing in China, talk-show hosts began calling for internment of Chinese Americans and for boycotts of Chinese restaurants."

Source
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/04/27/MN199998.DTL