‘ PIOs face discrimination daily in many areas in US’

New York, Dec. 6: IndianAmericans say that they have faced discrimination in many areas in their daily lives in the US, according to a new survey about Asian- Americans.

The report released this week is part of a series titled “Discrimination in America” which is based on a survey conducted for National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health.

About 1 in 10 AsianAmericans report that they or a family member have been unfairly stopped or treated by the police because they are Asian. But on the basis of the ethnicity, IndianAmericans reported unfair police stops or treatment eight times more often than ChineseAmericans, it said.

Indian- Americans were significantly more likely ( 17 per cent) than Chinese Americans ( two per cent) to say they or a family member had been unfairly stopped or treated by the police because they were Asian, the results of the survey showed.

“Our poll shows that Asian American families have the highest average income among the groups we have surveyed, and yet the poll still finds that Asian- Americans experience persistent discrimination in housing, jobs, and at college,” said Robert Blendon, Professor at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health who co- directed the survey.

“Over the course of our series, we are seeing again and again that income is not a shield from discrimination,” Blendon said.