{"id":172163,"date":"2022-04-15T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=172163"},"modified":"2022-04-15T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T07:21:30","slug":"pandemic-may-intensify-u-s-workplace-prejudice-against-asian-hispanic-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=172163","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic May Intensify U.S. Workplace Prejudice Against Asian, Hispanic Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW YORK, Apr 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; The COVID-19 pandemic may have amplified prejudicial attitudes against Asian and Hispanic colleagues in U.S. workplace, a new, U.S.-based survey showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study, conducted by experts from Columbia University and Northwestern University, was released in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the research, participants who had lost jobs due to COVID-19, as well as, those from counties with higher COVID-19 rates and lower concentrations of East Asians, showed greater prejudice towards East Asians in their responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings suggest the possibility that the pandemic amplified health and economic insecurities in the United States, thereby exacerbating prejudice against minority groups in the workplace, the study said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Such prejudices increase the likelihood of discriminatory actions, which can have both short- and long-term cross-generation impacts on minorities, including reduced economic opportunities and productivity, harms to mental and physical health, and reduced integration with society,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Apr 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; The COVID-19 pandemic may have amplified prejudicial attitudes against Asian and Hispanic colleagues in U.S. workplace, a new, U.S.-based survey showed. The study, conducted by experts from Columbia University and Northwestern University, was released in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday. During the research, participants who had lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":172164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172165,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172163\/revisions\/172165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}