{"id":141627,"date":"2025-03-18T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/anti-asian-racism-and-the-war-on-spotted-lanternflies-in-the-u-s-sapiens\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:41:12","slug":"anti-asian-racism-and-the-war-on-spotted-lanternflies-in-the-u-s-sapiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=141627","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Asian Racism and the War on Spotted Lanternflies in the U.S. \u2013 SAPIENS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"m-text-insert-image__media\">\n<figure class=\"c-image-video\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-spotted-lanternfly-in-palm-of-hand.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"img img--contain\" style=\"--data-padding-bottom: 133.33333333333%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-spotted-lanternfly-in-palm-of-hand-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"A winged insect with red, black, white, gray, and brown colors and covered in black spots sits in the palm of a human hand.\" data-highres-url=\"https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-spotted-lanternfly-in-palm-of-hand.jpg\" data-aspectratio=\"0.75\" data-sizes=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/span>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>One striking example of this came during a bright July day in 2022 when I visited a vineyard owned by a White, multigenerational family just seven miles from Three Mile Island. I thought we\u2019d discuss the plant\u2019s impact on farming, but as the father and son vintners led me through the rows of grapevines, they had something else on their minds. Underneath large leaves sheltering clusters of grapes, I spied small white and black nymphs clinging to the vine. In a few weeks, their wings would sprout, and shades of red would appear. Out in a rural area away from major roadways, the vineyard had largely been protected from the spotted lanternfly up until now. After barely surviving COVID-19, the vintners feared the financial hit the insects might cause.<\/p>\n<p>Over months, I listened to my neighbors, family, friends, and the people I interviewed refer to the insect as the \u201cChinese spotted lanternfly.\u201d At summer picnics, my family members conspired about nymphs fatiguing after three jumps, making them easy targets to squash. Other people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2022\/9\/16\/23353428\/spotted-lanternfly-invasive-species\">took blowtorches to trees<\/a> where spotted lanternflies were supposedly dwelling.<\/p>\n<p>Disdain for the insect was intensified by public campaigns describing the spotted lanternfly as an \u201cinvasive destructive pest.\u201d Signs posted around my community said the insect was \u201ca significant threat to Pennsylvania\u2019s economy and environment\u201d and included instructions on how to inspect, report, and destroy them.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the signs outlined not just how to kill, but a justification for it.<\/p>\n<p>This language isn\u2019t neutral. Scientific metaphors shape our perceptions of the world. Ecologists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/474153a\">have cautioned<\/a> that labeling something an invasive species can inform how humans relate to it\u2014and sometimes justify a disproportionately negative response.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropologists of science have shown that these metaphors also reflect existing biases and narratives. Messages like \u201cStop This Invader!\u201d do not merely serve to combat a particular species; they inform and are informed by our social categories, including invented ones like race.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading__1\">MIGRANTS, VIRUSES, AND INSECTS<\/h2>\n<p>The metaphor of the Asian immigrant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2019\/08\/trump-immigrant-invasion-language-origins\/595579\/\">as \u201cinvader<\/a>\u201d has a long, violent history in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>In 1873, Henry Josiah West published <a href=\"https:\/\/searchworks.stanford.edu\/view\/2095294\"><em>The Chinese Invasion<\/em><\/a>, which hyperbolically warned that Chinese laborers were flooding the West Coast and threatening U.S. democracy. The people West coined \u201cinvaders\u201d had been hired by Central Pacific to complete the transcontinental railroad after a domestic labor shortage. Fears over the Chinese migrant labor that powered the country\u2019s railroad boom ultimately resulted in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first major ban of an entire ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p>Today the racist rhetoric of \u201cinvasion\u201d remains alive in the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/platform\">GOP platform<\/a>. One of President Trump\u2019s first actions in office was issuing <a href=\"https:\/\/immigrationforum.org\/article\/u-s-southern-border-president-trumps-executive-actions-on-border-security\/\">an executive order<\/a> to \u201cseal the borders\u201d and protect the country against the alleged \u201cinvasion\u201d at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One striking example of this came during a bright July day in 2022 when I visited a vineyard owned by a White, multigenerational family just seven miles from Three Mile Island. 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