“Their Christian faith impacts on how they view communism, the practice of their Christian faith, and the Chinese government's efforts to control and regulate Christianity,” Tan said. At least 5% of people in China identify as Christian. About 40% of Chinese Americans are Christian, he said. Jonathan Tan, professor of Catholic studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, said religion also plays a role in how Chinese Americans view mainland China. “If you've witnessed the repression of Hong Kong, the nation's human rights abuses, and its authoritarian state during COVID-19, you would also be likely to have a critical stance.”Ī majority of Americans overall have a negative view of China, surveys show. “Many immigrants migrated after the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square massacre, so they were fleeing the Communist Party's regime,” he said. Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian American studies at California’s San Francisco State University, was also not surprised by Chinese Americans’ views on China. Faith influences Chinese immigrants' views Six in 10 Vietnamese Americans felt positive about Vietnam. “People coming from more authoritarian regimes have left for a reason."Īmong Chinese Americans, 41% held favorable views of China, the survey found. “To some extent that is not surprising,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder and director of AAPI Data, a policy research and data hub at the University of California, Riverside, noting that the majority of Asian Americans – close to 60% − are foreign-born. The Pew Research Center survey of more than 7,000 Asian Americans, conducted from July 2022 to January 2023, highlights the views of Asian Americans with origins in seven particular nations – China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam – about their ancestral homelands, the United States, their identity and global affairs.Ĭhinese Americans and Vietnamese Americans were the only two groups to view other countries more favorably than their own: Asian Americans with Chinese roots viewed Taiwan, South Korea and Japan more positively than their own, while Vietnamese Americans expressed more favorable views of Japan compared with their own ancestral homeland. And among Asian Americans not from China, just 14% held favorable views of that country. Watch Video: House passes bill to study new Asian-American museumĪsian Americans largely feel positive about their ancestral homelands, a national survey has found, with one major exception: Barely 4 in 10 Chinese Americans said they favorably viewed mainland China.
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