The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia
HMart&#x27;s great. Good food court with a variety of cusines. Nice prepackaged take home food. Tons of free samples pre-covid. Huge section of dumplings. Lots of niche asian things you have trouble finding elsewhere, like dashi and what not. Check it out if you have one nearby. To those unfamiliar with asian cuisines, try grabbing some kimbap (~korean sushi), korean bbq sauce, dashi (~umami soup base), hot sesame oil, gochujang paste, a fuck ton of noodles, etc.<p>This article puts a large emphasis on race relations but honestly I think the anti-asian voice is very small. Certainly an order of magnitude smaller than what arabs a decade prior. Casually looking up stats on the FBI hate crime database (2019 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucr.fbi.gov&#x2F;hate-crime&#x2F;2019&#x2F;topic-pages&#x2F;tables&#x2F;table-1.xls" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucr.fbi.gov&#x2F;hate-crime&#x2F;2019&#x2F;topic-pages&#x2F;tables&#x2F;table...</a>), asian hate crimes are an order magnitude less than black&#x2F;african american hate crimes. I&#x27;ve seen stats suggestings a 100%+ increase in rates for asian americans in the past year, but that still puts it at a relatively lower number than other groups.<p>Idk. As an aggressively liberal asian american living in a heavily blue area full of BLM and other progressive movements, this one doesn&#x27;t resonate with me as the cultural emergency it&#x27;s being shaped as. This could be local bias, but I don&#x27;t believe the sentiment towards asians for the median, or even 90th percentile individual has changed that much. I don&#x27;t know if I believe the local experience of the median asian has changed all that much either.<p>As a non-chinese, I&#x27;m also annoyed at the lack of differentiation between Asian and Chinese- and then further from Chinese descent vs. CCP supporter. If there is any growing anti asian sentiment, it&#x27;s almost entirely due to the actions of the CCP. If trends continue in this direction, I foresee a push to stop using the term Asian. Many (most?) Asian cultures consider the CCP to be a hostile nation and likely won&#x27;t tolerate being lumped in with them.