{"id":35258,"date":"2021-05-15T22:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T05:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35258"},"modified":"2021-05-15T22:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T05:59:55","slug":"how-u-s-lawmakers-have-discussed-asian-americans-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35258","title":{"rendered":"How U.S. Lawmakers Have Discussed Asian Americans on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2021\/05\/13\/how-u-s-lawmakers-have-discussed-asian-americans-on-social-media\/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=28c4261e83-weekly_5_15_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-28c4261e83-401040138<\/a><\/p>\n

Majority of posts about Asian Americans in 2020 and early 2021 mentioned concerns about violence, discrimination or racism<\/h2>\n
BY\u00a0SONO SHAH<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0REGINA WIDJAYA<\/span><\/a>\u00a0AND\u00a0AARON SMITH<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Asian Americans are defined by their diversity. With roots in more than 20 different countries, the Asian American population as a group\u00a0nearly doubled<\/a>\u00a0between 2000 and 2019. Demographic shifts have led to increased prominence for Asian Americans in the\u00a0voting booth<\/a>\u00a0and the halls of\u00a0Congress<\/a>. At the same time,\u00a032% of Asian adults<\/a>\u00a0say they have feared that someone might threaten or physically attack them due to their race in the\u00a0wake of violent incidents<\/a>\u00a0against Asian Americans during the ongoing\u00a0coronavirus outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the midst of these political and cultural developments, a Pew Research Center analysis of more than five years of congressional social media activity finds that lawmakers are increasingly mentioning Asian Americans on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n

From 2016 through 2019, lawmaker mentions of Asian Americans on social media \u2013 either of the population at large or of smaller subgroups \u2013 followed a relatively predictable pattern. Members of Congress collectively mentioned this group fewer than 2,000 times in each of these years, with monthly mentions consistently reaching their peak as lawmakers commemorated\u00a0Asian Pacific American Heritage Month<\/a>\u00a0in May.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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