Stereotype content often reflects perceptions of intergroup conflict, including both resource competition and conflicting cultural values ( Bobo, 1988 Sears and Henry, 2003 for a review, see Bodenhausen and Richeson, 2010). Stereotypes held about many social groups are rooted in historical patterns of intergroup relations, particularly patterns reflecting intergroup conflict and groups’ relative success and status (e.g., Fiske et al., 2007). These results indicate that the othering of Asian Americans is pervasive among White Americans and that variables related to social conditions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic can predict the potency of this association. The direct and indirect connections of political ideology to the observed patterns were examined, revealing that White participants who blamed China for the pandemic were more likely to apply the perpetual foreigner stereotype to Asian Americans. Asian targets were consistently perceived as less American than White targets, across variations in subjective health threat and regional case counts. Over a seven-week period, we recruited 1,323 White Americans to complete a measure of the perceived Americanness of Asian, Black, and White targets. Given past evidence that pathogen-related threat perceptions can exacerbate intergroup biases, as well as salient public narratives blaming the Chinese for the pandemic, we assessed whether individuals experiencing a greater sense of threat during the pandemic were more likely to apply the “perpetual foreigner” stereotype to Asian Americans. We examined the “othering” of Asian Americans in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 3Marketing Department, Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL, United States.2Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States.1Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'foreigner.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Los Angeles Times, The pollster's recommendation: Vance should come out strong with a lot of anti-immigrant, anti- foreigner proposals. Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, By contrast, Cambage is a foreigner who never played for a blue-chip university and is not eligible for Team USA. 2021 But to one man in Seoul, his existence ignited a homophobic hatred that elicited an attack in one of Seoul’s most foreigner-friendly areas. Gilchrist: Irish, meaning servant of Christ.
and the uncomfortable truth that more Americans question the loyalty of Asian Americans.Įllen Mcgirt, Fortune, Irish, meaning stranger or foreigner.
Patrick Frater, Variety, The insights from this year’s survey spotlight the long history of stereotypes (like the perpetual foreigner and model minority tropes) in the U.S. Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine, Tang’s character speaks Chinese and a form of Korean that is described in the film as particularly formal due to the character having learned the language as a foreigner. Howard Fendrich,, 27 June 2022 Traveling through farming villages with an entourage of Japanese guards and interpreters, Thunberg documented how he would be mobbed by children shocked by the bizarre look of a foreigner with large, round eyes. Recent Examples on the Web As things stand, he will not be allowed into the United States as a foreigner who hasn’t gotten his COVID-19 shots and must miss the US Open, which begins in August.