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Racism in Asia

Racism in Asia is multi-faceted and has roots in events that have happened from centuries ago to the present. Racism in Asia may occur from nation against nation, or within each nation's ethnic groups, or from region against region.
Bangladesh[edit]

In 2015, the ruling Awami League Member of Parliament, Elias Mollah,^[1] commented on his trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo: "Our army has gone there (Africa) to civilise those black people. I am sure they will accomplish the task." He constantly referred to the Congolese as "uncivilized black people" and added "People there are yet to become civilised. They take bath every 15 days. After applying soaps before bath, they do not even use water in a bid to retain the aroma."^[2]
Bhutan[edit]

In 1991–92, Bhutan is said to have deported between 10,000 and 100,000 ethnic Nepalis (Lhotshampa). The actual number of refugees who were initially deported is debated by both sides. In March 2008, this population began a multiyear resettlement to third countries including the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia.^[3] At present, the United States is working towards resettling more than 60,000 of these refugees in the US as a condition of its third country settlement programme.^[4]
Brunei[edit]

Brunei law provides affirmative action to Bumiputera.^[5]
Myanmar[edit]

Ne Win's rise to power in 1962 and his persecution of "resident aliens" (groups of immigrants whose members were not recognized as citizens of the Union of Burma) led to an exodus of some 300,000 Burmese Indians and Burmese Chinese who were victims of Ne Win's discriminatory policies, particularly after the wholesale nationalization of private enterprise in 1964.^[6][7] Some Muslim refugees who entered Bangladesh also suffer there because the Bangladeshi government provided no support to them as of 2007.^[8] In late 2016, the Myanmar military forces and extremist Buddhists started a major crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims in the country's western region of Rakhine State.
Since 2015, over 900,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to southeastern Bangladesh alone,^[9] and more have fled to other surrounding countries, and major Muslim nations.^[10][11][12] More than 100,000 Rohingyas in Myanmar are confined in camps for internally displaced persons.^[13][14] Shortly before a Rohingya rebel attack that killed 12 security forces, August 25, 2017, the Myanmar military had launched "clearance operations" against the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state^[15][16] that left over 3,000 dead, many more injured, tortured or raped, villages burned. Over 603,000 Rohingya from Myanmar,^[15][16] fled to Bangladesh alone, and more have fled to other countries.^[17] According to the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission, about 624,000 Rohingyas entered Bangladesh until November 7.^[18][19][20]
Cambodia[edit]

Cambodia has disproportionately targeted ethnic minority groups. These included ethnic Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, and foreigners who live in Cambodia. Part of this conflict stems from Chinese involvement in Cambodia before the Vietnam War. In the late 1960s, an estimated 425,000 ethnic Chinese lived in Cambodia, but by 1984, as a result of the Khmer Rouge's genocide and emigration, only about 61,400 Chinese remained in the country. The Cham, a Muslim minority group whose members are the descendants of migrants from the old state of Champa, were forced to adopt the Khmer people's language and customs. A Khmer Rouge order stated that henceforth "The Cham nation no longer exists on Kampuchean soil belonging to the Khmers" (U.N. Doc. A.34/569 at 9). Only about half of the Cham survived.^[21][22][23]
China[edit]

Main article: Racism in China
See also: Antireligious campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party, Freedom of religion in China § People's Republic of China, Religion in China § People's Republic of China, Human rights in China § Ethnic minorities, Chinese nationalism, Sinocentrism, Han nationalism, Han chauvinism, Hua–Yi distinction, and Anti-Manchuism
Scholars have suggested that the People's Republic of China largely portrays racism as a Western phenomenon which has led to a lack of acknowledgement of racism in its own society.^{[24][25][26][27][28]} For example, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reported in 2018 that Chinese law does not define "racial discrimination" and lacks an anti-racial discrimination law in line with the Paris Principles.^[29]
Discrimination against African students has occurred since the arrival of Africans to Chinese universities in the 1960s.^[30][31][32] A known incident in 1988 featured Chinese students rioting against African students studying in Nanjing.^[33][30][34] In 2007, police anti-drug crackdowns in Beijing's Sanlitun district were reported to target people from Africa as suspected criminals, though police officials denied targeting any specific racial or ethnic group.^[35][36] According to Foreign Policy, African students have reportedly been subjected to more frequent drug testing than students from other regions.^[37] Accordingly, some Chinese vloggers have attempted to change the negative stereotypes in their country regarding Africa,^[38] while black expats residing in China have reported a mixture of positive and negative experiences.^[39][40][41] Reports of racism against Africans in China grew during the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China.^{[42][43][44][45]} In August 2023, Human Rights Watch reported that racist content against Black people is widespread on the internet in China.^[46]
Hong Kong[edit]

With a population of 7.3 million^[47] Hong Kong has gained a reputation as an international city, while remaining predominantly Chinese. This multi-culturalism has raised issues of racial and gender discrimination, particularly among the 350,000 ethnic minorities such as Africans, Nepalese, Indians, Indonesians, Pakistanis, Mexicans and Filipinos, who have long established minority communities since the founding days of the former colony or have come to Hong Kong recently to work as domestic workers. For example, Filipino females are sometimes addressed by the derogatory term "Bun Mui" and Filipino males "Bun Jai" (literally Filipino sister and Filipino son, respectively).^[48][49] In 2003, the number of complaints filed with the body handling discrimination issues, the Equal Opportunities Commission^[50] increased by 31 percent.
Since the transfer of sovereignty in 1997, there has been greater tension and more conflicts have risen between residents of the PRC (People's Republic of China or the "Mainland") and Hong Kong over a variety of political and socio-economical issues concerning the governance and constitutional autonomy of the territory. The issues partly involve the intrusive policies of the central government^[51] and also partly the behaviors of Mainland residents when they travel to Hong Kong. Mainland residents suffered considerable set-backs in the 1960s and 1970s due to catastrophes such as the Great Chinese Famine that resulted from the poor governance of the PRC. However, since the 1990s, the Mainland has had considerable economic growth, and a large number of mainland tourists have visited Hong Kong in recent years.^[51] There also have been many reports that visiting Mainland parents let their child defecate or urinate openly in the street in busy shopping districts or in public transports.^[52]
Similarly, with the introduction of China's Individual Visit Scheme in 2003, which effectively grants Mainland residents an unlimited entry travel visa to Hong Kong, and following the 2008 Chinese milk scandal and other food safety incidents in China an influx of Mainland residents travel regularly to Hong Kong to buy baby formula and other daily necessities. In the process, this influx caused shortages of supply for Hong Kong parents and escalated rents; it also greatly harmed the commercial diversity of Hong Kong business. Due to the great demand from mainland residents, smugglers organizations have grown rapidly.^[53] This deleterious effect on the economy has caused some Hong Kong residents to refer to Mainland residents as "locusts";^[54] they are seen as invaders who swarm into the city and drain its resources.^[55]
On the other hand, a race discrimination bill has been demanded by human rights groups for the last 10 years, and the government has been accused of putting the issue on the back burner. Last 3 December 2006 was the first time a drafted bill was proposed at the Legislative Council, and was expected to be passed before the end of 2008. However, the bill was criticized for being "too conservative".^[56]
Tibet[edit]

Main articles: Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, Anti-Tibetan sentiment § China, History of Tibet (1950–present), Human rights in Tibet, Sinicization of Tibet, Tibetan independence movement, and Tibetan sovereignty debate
Critics of Chinese rule of Tibet use the phrase Sinicization of Tibet in reference to programs and laws which impose "cultural unity" in Tibetan areas of China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region and the surrounding Tibetan-designated autonomous areas. These efforts are undertaken by China in order to forcefully assimilate Tibetan culture into mainstream Chinese culture. Another term for sinicization is cultural cleansing or genocide, a term which has been used in reference to the results of China's sinicization programs and laws in Tibet by the 14th Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration.^[57][58]
Persecution of Uyghurs in China[edit]

Main article: Persecution of Uyghurs in China
See also: Islam in China § People's Republic of China, Islamophobia in China, History of Xinjiang § People's Republic of China (1949–present), Incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China, Xinjiang conflict, and Xinjiang internment camps
The Chinese government has persecuted Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities in and around the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of the People's Republic of China.^[59][60][61] Since 2014,^[62] the Chinese government, under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the administration of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping, has pursued policies leading to more than one million Muslims^{[63][64][65][66][67]} (the majority of them Uyghurs) being held in secretive internment camps without any legal process^[68][69] in what has become the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since the Holocaust.^[70][71] Critics of the policy have described it as the Sinicization of Xinjiang and have called it an ethnocide or cultural genocide,^[78] while some governments, activists, independent NGOs, human rights experts, academics, government officials, and the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile have called it a genocide.^[83] Uyghur individuals are being relocated to factories within mainland China, where they are exploited as contemporary forms of forced labor.^[84]
In particular, critics have highlighted the concentration of Uyghurs in state-sponsored internment camps,^[87] suppression of Uyghur religious practices,^[90] political indoctrination,^[91] severe ill-treatment,^[92] and testimonials of alleged human rights abuses including forced sterilization, contraception,^[93] and abortion.^[97] Chinese government statistics show that from 2015 to 2018, birth rates in the mostly Uyghur regions of Hotan and Kashgar fell by more than 60%.^[98] In the same period, the birth rate of the whole country decreased by 9.69%, from 12.07 to 10.9 per 1,000 people.^[99] Chinese authorities acknowledged that birth rates dropped by almost a third in 2018 in Xinjiang, but denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide.^[100] Birth rates have continued to plummet in Xinjiang, falling nearly 24% in 2019 alone when compared to just 4.2% nationwide.^[98]
Discrimination against Mongols[edit]

See also: 2020 Inner Mongolia protests
The CCP has been accused of sinicization by gradually replacing Mongolian languages with Mandarin Chinese. Critics call it cultural genocide for dismantling people's minority languages and eradicating their minority identities. The implementation of the Mandarin language policy began in Tongliao, because 1 million ethnic Mongols live there making it the most Mongolian-populated area. The 5 million Mongols are less than 20 percent of the population in Inner Mongolia.^[101]
India[edit]

Further information: Ethnic relations in India
See also: Caste system in India, Anti-Bihari sentiment, 1984 anti-Sikh riots, 1991 anti-Tamil violence in Karnataka, and 2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra
Racism in India first started during the colonial era, when European colonialists, using prevailing theories of scientific racism, formulated racial differences between Europeans and Indians that included dividing various ethnic groups in India into different "classes".^[102] The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, wrote:
We in India have known racialism in all its forms ever since the commencement of British rule. The idea of a master race is inherent in imperialism. India as a nation and Indians as individuals were subjected to insult, humiliation and contemptuous treatment. The English were an imperial race, we were told, with the God-given right to govern us and keep us in subjection; if we protested we were reminded of the 'tiger qualities of an imperial race'.^[103]
In recent years, discrimination against people from North-East India and from South India has been reported. In 2007, the North East Support Centre & Helpline (NESC&H) was started as a separate wing of All India Christian Council. Its stated goal is to increase awareness regarding prejudice and attacks against people from North-East India.^[104] Many North-Eastern Indians face discrimination, are refused living accommodations when they travel to urban areas to study^[105] and are subjected to racial slurs^[106] in reference to the appearance of their eyes. A spokesman for the NESC&H has stated that abuse and harassment of North-Easterners is increasing.^[107]
A World Values Survey reported India as the second-least tolerant country in the world, as 43.5% of Indians responded that they would prefer not to have neighbors of a different race.^[108] The most recent survey, however, in 2016, conducted by the World Values Survey, found that 25.6% of the people living in India would not want a person of a different race to be their neighbor.^[109]
Indonesia[edit]

See also: Jakarta Riots of May 1998 and Legislation on Chinese Indonesians
A number of discriminatory laws against Chinese Indonesians were enacted by the government of Indonesia. In 1959, President Sukarno approved PP 10/1959, which forced Chinese Indonesians to close their businesses in rural areas and to relocate to urban areas. Moreover, political pressures in the 1970s and the 1980s restricted the role of Chinese Indonesians in politics, academics, and the military. As a result, they were constrained professionally to becoming entrepreneurs and professional managers in trade, manufacturing, and banking. In the 1960s, after the alleged communist coup attempt in 1965, there was a strong sentiment against Chinese Indonesians, who were accused of being communist collaborators. In 1998, Indonesia riots over higher food prices and rumors of hoarding by merchants and shopkeepers often degenerated into anti-Chinese attacks. There is also discrimination based on religion and belief across the country, especially between Muslims and Christians.^[110]
Amnesty International has estimated more than 100,000 Papuans, one sixth of the population, have died as a result of violence against West Papuans,^[111][112] and others had specified much higher death tolls.^[113] The 1990s saw Indonesia accelerate its Transmigration program under which hundreds of thousands of migrants from Java and Sumatra were resettled to Papua over a ten-year period. The Indonesian government saw that as the improvement of the economy and also the population density in Indonesia. Critics suspect that the program's purpose is to tip the balance of the province's population from the heavily-Melanesian Papuans toward western Indonesians to consolidate Indonesian control further.^[114]
Iran[edit]

Main article: Racism in Iran