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According to a survey conducted by Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism The California State University, based on police reports, confirmed that racist incitements against people of Asian descent in U.S increased in the year of the pandemic.
Maybe the hate crimes against Asians is still a small percentage compared to the total of these crimes in the 15 largest cities in the United States, however, their number increased from 49 in 2019 to 122 in 2020.
At the same time, the New York emerged as a key part of the display of racist hate crimes against people of Asian descent in 2020, with 28 cases compared to just three in 2019.
Which makes it, by far, the city with the most recorded cases of this type of crime in the United States in 2020.
And this at a time when he was becoming the focus of the first wave of his pandemic. coronavirus.
In addition, according to the non-profit organization Stop AAPI Hate, which records incidents of discrimination, hatred and xenophobia against people of Asian descent in U.S, there have been a total of 3,800 incidents against this tribal group from March 2020 to February this year.
According to the organization’s data, the most common form of harassment is verbal in 68%, followed by ostentatious snobbery in 20% and finally physical attacks in 11%.
