Ted Talk - SOC330

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by Dida Suli1 view·Updated Mar 21, 2022
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  1. Mhm
  2. So 3 30
  3. criminology and immigration,
  4. I will be discussing the criminalization of
  5. Asian immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  6. The criminalization of immigrants is an often forgotten
  7. topic when discussing the multifaceted subject of criminology.
  8. However, it is prevalent in our everyday lives.
  9. Many outlets, such as media, family,
  10. government and society convey biased opinions towards certain groups of people.
  11. As a result,
  12. immigrants faced the injustices and backlash of many
  13. backwards thinkers within societies around the world.
  14. Canada is known
  15. as a safe, inclusive and respectful country.
  16. Although many view Canada as a population of diversity, equity and justice,
  17. it still has involvement with immigration.
  18. Our society has many cracks within the system
  19. regarding both the government and the population.
  20. The Canadian population is built up of many nations across the
  21. world that have all migrated to call this country home,
  22. 17.7% of the Canadian population consists of people belonging to Asian descent.
  23. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic,
  24. hate towards Asians began to rise due to many ignorant views.
  25. The previous president of America Donald trump even went
  26. to the lengths of calling it the chinese virus.
  27. This promoted lots of hate and allowed many to believe
  28. it was the fault of asian citizens and immigrants.
  29. That the world was in a pandemic.
  30. People took it into their own hands to punish innocent
  31. Asian civilians in retaliation for COVID-19
  32. The video
  33. 10 years of white terror shown in discussion two of
  34. this class illustrated the hate and violence that can be created
  35. towards innocent immigrants.
  36. White supremacists across the world have justified committing heinous acts
  37. towards immigrants and people of colour
  38. due to multiple different reasons.
  39. For example,
  40. Anders Breivik killed 77 people due to racist ideologies
  41. that were against multiculturalism
  42. and Muslims.
  43. He believed he was stopping an invasion
  44. of Muslims
  45. and other migrants that were not a part of the white race.
  46. The same was done in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic,
  47. the percentage of police reported
  48. Hate crimes towards Asian people went up by 301%.
  49. The beginning of the virus sparked hate against the Asian population
  50. as many attacked eight innocent asians for a virus that was out of their control.
  51. The discussion in week two elaborated how
  52. there are negative perceptions of certain racial groups
  53. that continue to affect the way certain minorities
  54. and immigrants are treated in a country.
  55. A personal example that made me very emotional was from
  56. a conversation I had with a woman at a nail salon
  57. In 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 virus,
  58. I got into a conversation with a woman who was doing my nails,
  59. she was very sweet and was telling me how worried she is for her Children
  60. as they're a family of Asian immigrants.
  61. She explained how a person had thrown rocks at her car
  62. and had yelled, get out of our country
  63. and proceeded to blame her for the chinese virus.
  64. She went on to discuss how she moved her family to Canada for a better life,
  65. but now instead
  66. she fears for her Children's lives.
  67. Many racist ideologies surrounded the media and people within our society,
  68. which made white supremacists
  69. target innocent people just because of their appearance.
  70. These acts of criminalizing innocent immigrants were due
  71. to the racist thinking of money that were prompted
  72. these acts.
  73. These acts of criminalizing innocent immigrants were
  74. due to the racist thinking of money
  75. that were promoted
  76. online
  77. by some world leaders like trump
  78. and in society
  79. Biases towards certain groups of people affect the lives of money,
  80. as did the negative perceptions and prejudice
  81. towards Asian people during the COVID-19 pandemic.