Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

REPORT SAYS ONE IN TWO INDIAN AMERICANS HAS EXPERIENCE­D DISCRIMINA­TION

- Yashwant Raj

WASHINGTON: One in two Indian-americans has reported experienci­ng some form of discrimina­tion in the US over the course of a 12-month period, says a study released on Wednesday.

The Indian-american Attitudes Survey (IAAS), done jointly by Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvan­ia and Carnegie with polling group Yougov, also found that Us-born Indian-americans are more likely to complain of discrimina­tion than those born outside, mostly in India.

The study is based on a poll of 1,200 Indian-americans - including citizens, green card holders and non-resident Indians - in September 2020, in the run up to the November election.

Respondent­s were asked, among a wide range of questions, if they had felt discrimina­tion against in the past 12 months, roughly the last year of president Donald Trump’s term.

Trump’s four years in the White House were marked by a spike in hate crimes and discrimina­tory behaviour in the US, including the mainstream­ing of white supremacis­ts.

But, there is no data to show if Indian-americans felt the same level of discrimina­tion pretrump, or less. The report said that according to their data, “one in two Indian-americans is being subject to some form of discrimina­tion in the past year”.

It added that “the data suggest that discrimina­tion based on skin colour is the most common form of bias: 30% of respondent­s reported feeling discrimina­ted against due to the colour of their skin”; 18% each for those discrimina­ted against due to their gender or religion, and 16% for their country of origin.

?? AP ?? Images made available by Nasa shows the dark side of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede as clicked by the Juno spacecraft that flew by the celestial object on Monday. The spacecraft provided the first close-ups of Jupiter’s largest moon in two decades. As Juno zoomed past icy Ganymede, it passed within 1,038km of the moon. The last time a spacecraft went that close was in 2000 when Nasa’s Galileo swept past our solar system’s biggest moon.
AP Images made available by Nasa shows the dark side of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede as clicked by the Juno spacecraft that flew by the celestial object on Monday. The spacecraft provided the first close-ups of Jupiter’s largest moon in two decades. As Juno zoomed past icy Ganymede, it passed within 1,038km of the moon. The last time a spacecraft went that close was in 2000 when Nasa’s Galileo swept past our solar system’s biggest moon.

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