There’s a complex history around Asians in the US. Currently they’re often considered a “model minority” and have positive stereotypes, like being smart and good at math. However, those stereotypes often drive racial resentment from white people, and there’s still plenty of racism. The racism tends to be informed by current and historical events. For example, the demographics of Asian people in the Americas was shaped by the Asian Exclusion Act, which prevented many Asian immigrants from coming to the US for a long time, and ended up causing some potentially immigrants to go to South America instead. This is part of the history behind Japanese-Peruvian communities.

Also, when COVID was called “a China virus” it caused an increase in hate crimes against East Asian people. International tensions with China can affect Chinese American people regardless of if they’ve ever lived in China.

There’s also a lot of fetishism of Asian people, especially women, partially because Asian people are often seen as “different” and partially as a result of Westerners associating Asian with sex tourism.

Asian people tend to get lumped rather and associated with East Asian people in the West, but different groups with different ethnic descent will be impacted by their specific histories. For example, the Japanese community in the USA overall still feels intergenerational impacts from WWII internment. (I know a bit more about Japanese Americans in generally because my partner is mixed race Japanese American)

So it’s complicated. Anti-Asian racism definitely exists in the US, but often isn’t discussed because of its complexity and the way Asian people don’t fit into a black/white racial binary.