LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Many Americans still fail to notice that anti-Asian violence and racism have surged since the Atlanta massacre last year that left eight dead, including six Asian women, an American researcher has said.

Anti-Asian hate crimes have increased since the start of the pandemic: 1 in 6 Asian American adults reported experiencing a hate crime in 2021, up from 1 in 8 in 2020, said Jennifer Lee, the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University and an elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in an article published on the website of the Brookings Institution this week, citing a national survey by AAPI Data and Momentive.

In the first three months of 2022, the figure has already reached 1 in 12. This trend may continue given the rise in anti-Asian racism, the article added, noting that the 2022 STAATUS Index shows that 1 in 5 Americans believe that Asian Americans are at least partly responsible for COVID-19 compared to 1 in 10 last year.

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