送交者: 红胡子 于 May 17, 2002 23:54:06:

百人会调查四月出笼。

　　　百人会委托Marttila Communications Group及Yankelovich
作调查，目标集中在美国公众对美籍华人的看法。百人会的调查结果摘
要列在下面。

　　　　美国公众对华人的负面观感可能超过我们的自我感觉，与二战前后对
尤太人的数字类似。值得深思、自警。尤太人几十年努力的效果显著。３％的
尤太人谁敢轻视？尤太人口袋里有多少政客谁又数得清？

General:

On balance, the non-Asian focus group
participants expressed a great deal of admiration
for Asian Americans, who they consider to be a
real asset to American life. There is a genuine
regard for the hard work, family focus, ambition,
commitment to education and the intellectual
gifts of Asian Americans.

However, many negative and
prejudicial judgments about Asian Americans
also emerged during the focus groups. And
many of these negative views were the flip
side of the respect for Asian Americans
because they were resentful reactions to their
perceived success. Therefore, many focus
group participants described Asian Americans
as arrogant, aloof, keeping to themselves,
disinterested in/and disapproving of the
larger American community, not
approachable, etc.

KEY 　FINDINGS
1. In the focus groups, the majority of non-
Asian American participants could not
make meaningful distinctions between
Asian Americans of different national origins.

2. The focus group participants believed
that African Americans face the most
discrimination in the U.S. and Hispanics
face only slightly less. Of the three racial
groups tested, the participants believed Asian
Americans faced the least discrimination.

3. A consensus existed among all focus
group participants, regardless of race,
regarding the roots of prejudice: the
same words and terms emerged in all of the
focus groups. A lack of education and a lack
of a proper upbringing were the most
prevalent explanations for prejudicial views.

4. Among the non-Asian participants,
the positive judgments about Asian
Americans were very sharply defined.
There is a genuine regard for the hard
work, family focus, ambition, commitment
to education and the intellectual gifts of
Asian Americans.

5. The most frequently mentioned
criticism in the focus groups was that
Asian Americans keep to themselves.
“They stick together.” “They are
c l i q u i s h / c l a n n i s h . ”

6. Most focus group participants believed
that the substantial increase of
immigrants to the U.S. during the 1990s
had exacerbated interracial tension in the
country. All participants, non-Asian and Asian
a l i ke, agreed an economic slowdown could
create real resentments against Asian
Americans among more economically
vulnerable Americans.

7. The focus group participants believed
the military and/or economic power of
China is a looming future threat to U.S
security, a view shared by many of the non-
Chinese Asian participants. Virtually all the
Asian Americans and Chinese American
participants indicated that their lives could be
adversely affected if there was a serious
showdown between the U.S. and China.

8. Non-Asian participants saw Asian
Americans as being less likely to be full
participants in the entire community as
other Americans. They were seen to be more
inward looking.
9. A discussion about the educational
success of Asian American teens
indicated that this issue has the
potential to create some tension among non-
Asian middle-class parents with collegebound
kids.
1 0. The Asian American focus group
participants believed that too
many Americans see them as
foreigners, or as