anti-Asian
adjective
ˌan-tē-ˈā-zhən 
-shən,
ˌan-ˌtī-
: opposed to or hostile toward the people or culture of Asia
anti-Asian discrimination
anti-Asian bias
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Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Delaware enacted similar anti-Asian legislation.
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Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Her family has roots in San Jose’s Market Street Chinatown, one of five Chinatowns in the city’s history and a community that was destroyed by arson fueled by anti-Asian fervor.
—Sophie Luo, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
He’d been committed to racial justice, yet the wave of anti-Asian violence had caught him off guard.
—Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
So the Klan of the 1920s was not only anti-Black and anti-Asian, but equally anti-Catholic, antisemitic, and anti-Slav – all groups from the wrong side of Europe’s tracks that took their marching orders from Rome or Moscow.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025
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Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Her family has roots in San Jose’s Market Street Chinatown, one of five Chinatowns in the city’s history and a community that was destroyed by arson fueled by anti-Asian fervor.
—Sophie Luo, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
He’d been committed to racial justice, yet the wave of anti-Asian violence had caught him off guard.
—Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
So the Klan of the 1920s was not only anti-Black and anti-Asian, but equally anti-Catholic, antisemitic, and anti-Slav – all groups from the wrong side of Europe’s tracks that took their marching orders from Rome or Moscow.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Anti-Asian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-Asian. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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