<br><div><aside class="gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el" aria-label="Video - Team USA Asian American athletes address anti-Asian hate"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">As the <a target="_blank" href="/story/travel/news/2021/05/19/covid-travel-restrictions-countries-fully-vaccinated-americans-europe/7284487002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">world opens back up</a>, many travelers are eager to <a target="_blank" href="/in-depth/travel/advice/2021/05/29/summer-travel-2021-should-i-travel-covid-pandemic-questions/7418325002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">get back on the road</a>, but Asian Americans may have some additional baggage after more than a year-and-a-half of <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/nation/2021/05/06/racism-us-anti-asian-hate-grows-despite-biden-speech-activism/4969692001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">attacks on their community</a>.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"Before the pandemic, I had no problem really going out and traveling," said Hana Lee, a Korean American from Colorado Springs. "It was just fun."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">She said the first time she felt <a target="_blank" href="/story/tech/2021/03/24/asian-american-hate-crimes-covid-harassment-atlanta-google-facebook-youtube/6973659002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">targeted for her ethnicity</a> was on a recent trip to New York, when a stranger called her "a Chinese cockroach" and took her photo, which she said made her "very uncomfortable."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"I was shocked, but at the same time ... this <a target="_blank" href="/story/life/health-wellness/2021/03/18/atlanta-shooting-killings-add-trauma-asian-women-living-in-fear/4732355001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">unfortunately is normal</a> for people like me these days," she said.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al">►'A historic surge':</strong><a target="_blank" href="/story/news/nation/2021/05/06/racism-us-anti-asian-hate-grows-despite-biden-speech-activism/4969692001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Attacks on Asian Americans continue to skyrocket despite public awareness campaign</a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al">►How to be an ally:</strong><a target="_blank" href="/story/life/2021/03/17/violence-against-asians-on-the-rise-how-be-ally-to-community-amid-racism/4730202001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Ways to support the Asian American community</a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"This feeling of having a loss of sense of safety is such a violation," said Cynthia Choi, Co-Executive Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, a founding partner of Stop AAPI Hate. "It's such a basic human right to feel like you can leave your home and not be subjected to discrimination, to hate."</p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al"/><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2">Attacks on Asian Americans</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Stop AAPI Hate received <a target="_blank" href="https://stopaapihate.org/national-report-through-march-2021/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">more than 6,600 reports</a> of hate incidents from mid-March 2020 to late March 2021 – ranging from verbal harassment to civil liberties violations and physical assault – as China was <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/nation/2021/03/18/anti-asian-hashtags-donald-trump-covid-19-tweet-study/4728444001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">blamed for COVID-19</a>.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"We believe it's an undercount," Choi said. "Our reporting center is the canary in the coal...</p></div> <style> .wrapper { text-align: center; } </style> <div class="wrapper"> <a class="button" href ="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2021/07/16/asian-american-travel-tourists-aapi-hate-fear-love/7840666002/">Read more <span>➤</span></a> </div>
