Racial Bias & Discrimination

57% of Asian adults see discrimination against Asians living in the U.S. as a major problem, and 63% say too little attention is paid to race and racial issues concerning Asian Americans. Additionally, most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner in some way (78%) or have experienced incidents where people assume they are a "model minority" (63%).

63% of Americans are pessimistic about the country’s moral and ethical standards, and 59% are pessimistic about its education system.

Black workers account for about 13% of all U.S. workers, including those who work full time, part time and are self-employed.

53% of U.S. adults say people overlooking racial discrimination is a bigger problem than people seeing it where it really didn’t exist.

Most Americans say Martin Luther King Jr. has had a positive impact on the country, with 47% saying he has had a very positive impact. 52% say the country has made a great deal or a fair amount of progress on racial equality in the past six decades.

About eight-in-ten American adults (81%) say civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has had a positive impact on the United States.

As we mark 10 years since the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag first appeared on social media, here are eight facts about the Black Lives Matter movement.

More than 44 million #BlackLivesMatter tweets from nearly 10 million distinct users currently exist on Twitter today. Over half of all existing tweets that include the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag were posted from May to September 2020.

Today, 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement – down from 67% in June 2020. A majority of Americans say the increased focus on race and racial inequality in the past three years hasn't led to improvement for Black Americans.

About half of Asian adults who have heard of affirmative action (53%) say it is a good thing, 19% say it is a bad thing, and 27% say they don’t know whether it is good or bad. However, about three-quarters of all Asian adults (76%) say race or ethnicity should not factor into college admissions decisions.