One Year After the Atlanta Shooting, Anti-Asian Attacks Are Still Proliferating. Has Anyone Noticed?

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3. Luckily, nothing like that going on here

I live in the Düsseldorf area, and Düsseldorf is a major business and cultural center for Japan in Europe. Parts of town could almost be taken for small Tokyo neighborhoods. There are Japanese restaurants, book shops, porcelain shops, travel agencies, ramen snack holes-in-the-wall, and of course the obligatory Mitsukoshi and Hotel Nikko. It is a given here that the longest street intersection in the world is in Düsseldorf, with one side of the street in Germany and the other in Japan. Every year, we have Japan Week with street festivals, etc.

Nothing so much as Asia(n) bashing has cropped up here. We have a hard time figuring out what even causes such an ugly mentality. With a sister-in-law from Japan for the last forty years, I have to say that I find it unfathomable, too.