According to Stop AAPI Hate, a nonprofit organisation that represents Asian-Ameri-cans and Pacific Islanders, close to 3,800 hate incidents against Asian- Americans were reported in the first full year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Not a new phenomenonFirst, let it be noted that the United States is not the only nation to witness these incidents. In Vancouver, Canada, police records show that anti-Asian hate crimes rose from a dozen in 2019 to 142 incidents last year. Secondly, racial jibes and attacks on Asians are not a new phenomenon in the United States or elsewhere. Still, such hate does tend to rise at times of social stress – and in the United States, particularly when American vulnerabilities are palpable.

Source: The Star March 28, 2021 01:07 UTC