Asian Americans’ Communicative Responses to COVID-19 Discrimination in Application of Co-Cultural Theory

Jun, Jungmi; Woo, Bongki; Kim, Joon K.; Kim, Paul D.; Zhang, Nanlan

doi:10.1080/10646175.2021.1922103

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“…Jun et al (2021) examined how Asian Americans responded to verbal and physical attacks. Based on a 12-item measure of communicative responses, they found that a nonassertive approach in response to aggression was preferred by many participants; however, most males in their study preferred using a more assertive response style when confronted with anti-Asian bias.…”

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The negative health effects of anti-Asian stigma in the U.S. during COVID-19.

Bresnahan¹,

Zhu²,

Hooper³

et al. 2023

Stigma and Health

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This study provided a systemic review of the content of 50 behavioral and social science studies investigating enactment and outcomes of anti-Asian stigma related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) published in the final quarter of 2020 and during 2021. Based on a systematic search of several databases in December of 2021, 500 studies describing the impact of COVID-related stigma on Asian Americans were identified. From this group, 50 studies meeting the inclusion criteria were analyzed focusing on health and social consequences of stigma. The studies were described by five stigma themes: the enactment of stigma, health consequences of stigma, stigma in the social media, Asian American stigma in education, and policy and political consequences of anti-Asian stigma. The studies appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals using several methodologies. While some studies exclusively focused on health impacts of stigma, all considered how Asian Americans have been scapegoated for COVID-19. Spread of blame and digital stigma on the social media has been particularly damaging to psychological well-being. Discussion of these studies provided an informative systemic overview for how scholars from various disciplines have investigated the antecedents and possible mechanisms leading to anti-Asian hate. This study serves as a baseline for other scholars who want to build on this body of research in future studies as Omicron and other potential future variants of COVID unfold.

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The negative health effects of anti-Asian stigma in the U.S. during COVID-19.

Bresnahan¹,

Zhu²,

Hooper³

et al. 2023

Stigma and Health

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“…Finally, stigmatized groups pay a massive price for evading this inherent stigma label, such as selectively disclosing disease or concealing it from others [53]. According to relevant statistics, crimes against Asian Americans soar during the pandemic [28], significantly threatening safety of Asian Americans.…”

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“…With the outbreak of COVID-19, stigma and discrimination against Chinese or Asian based on racism and xenophobia were rampant [23,34,56], and even led to large quantities of crimes against Asians [1,28,37]. Misinformation related to COVID-19 is rife in online media [60,61], which exacerbates the stigma surrounding COVID-19.…”

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“…Historical experience has shown that a particular stigma narrative always accompanies the initial stage of each outbreak [17,[20][21][22][23][24]. Stigma is often related to the use of specific framing strategies by news media [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. In the COVID-19 pandemic era, stigma and discrimination against Chinese or Asian have bred in the American society [1,23,28,33,34], because online media favors extreme news frames to label China as a predominant "virus source" and this has cultivated an anti-Asian discrimination narratives [35][36][37].…”

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“…Stigma is often related to the use of specific framing strategies by news media [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. In the COVID-19 pandemic era, stigma and discrimination against Chinese or Asian have bred in the American society [1,23,28,33,34], because online media favors extreme news frames to label China as a predominant "virus source" and this has cultivated an anti-Asian discrimination narratives [35][36][37]. In the early monkeypox outbreak, many blamed the African countries for causing the monkeypox outbreak [18,38,39], largely misguided by media frames.…”

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Stigmatizing Monkeypox and COVID-19: A Comparative Framing Study of <em>the Washington Post</em>’s Online News

Ju¹,

Sannusi²,

Mohamad³

2022

Preprint

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Background: Stigma in health can result in a broad range of vulnerabilities and risk for patients and healthcare providers. The media plays a role in people’s understanding of health and stigma is socially constructed through many communication channels including via media framing. Among health issues that were affected by stigma recently were the Monkeypox and Covid-19. Objectives: This research aims to examine how The Washington Post framed stigma around mon-keypox and COVID-19. Guided by the framing theory and stigma theory, online news coverage for monkeypox and COVID-19 were analyzed to understand the construction of social stigma through the media reporting. Methods: This research employed a qualitative content analysis to compare news framing in The Washington Post online news regarding monkeypox and COVID-19. Results: Based on endemic, reassurance, and sexual transmission frames, the The Washington Post predominantly defined Africa as the source of the disease, blames gay communities, and empha-sizes no need to worry about the spread of the monkeypox virus. For the COVID-19 coverage, The Washington Post described China as the source of the coronavirus and constructs the image of panic towards the spread of the virus. Conclusions: The shifts in stigma discourse essentially manifest racism, xenophobia, and sexism in public health. This research affirms that the media reinforces stigma phenomenon in health through framing and offers constructive suggestions for mitigating this issue.

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