Attacks on the Asian American community have not slowed down so far in 2021, despite increased national attention and political action against anti-Asian hate, a new report released on Thursday finds.
Several factors contributed to the data, from an increase in incidents to a greater desire to report, Kulkarni told the Associated Press. As the economy opened up more in the past few months, it meant more public interactions and opportunities to attack, she said. Also, a bump in reporting typically occurs after a high-profile incident like the“When you encourage hate, it’s not like a genie in a bottle where you can pull it out and push it back in whenever you want,” Kulkarni told AP.
But "It's not going to be likely to decrease any time soon unless we are very vigilant about it," Van Tran, an associate professor of sociology who studies the experience of Asian Americans at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, told . "We have yet to create and engender institutional change and behavioral change at the largest scale."This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:
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