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The U.S. House of Representatives just held a hearing on the issue of discrimination and violence against Asian-Americans.
Experts say these problems have been increasing since the coronavirus pandemic began early last year. And Chinese-Americans have been the group targeted the most frequently in the U.S. That's according to the non-profit social organization Stop AAPI Hate, AAPI standing for Asian American Pacific Islander communities.
It says it's received roughly 3,800 complaints of harassment and violence against Asian-Americans since March 19th of last year. That's when Stop AAPI Hate began tracking this information. So it doesn't have perspective on how that compares to the year 2019 before the pandemic. It also says that most of the complaints it's received are not hate crimes.
That 68 percent of them are reports of verbal harassment, 20 percent involved what the group called shunning or avoidance and 11 percent included physical assaults. But experts say hate crimes against Asian-Americans did increase by almost 150 percent last year in American cities. And the House hearing aimed to address the recent surge in discrimination as well as the history of what's been directed at Asian-Americans which dates back to the 1800s'.
