These are not isolated incidents. Last year. a report by the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium found that hate crimes against Asian PacificAmericans grew from 335 incidents in 1993 to 458 incidents in 1995. a 37 percent increase in just two years. These violent incidents have been paralleled and surely fed by a growing national xenophobia. The fear of things foreign has manifested itself in cutbacks in international programs. the growth of the English only movement. and the passage of Californias proposition 187 and Federal legislation to curtail social services to undocumented aliens and legal residents. Fear of Asians and other minorities is also seen in proposals to rollback minority language provisions of the Voting Rights Act and in broadbased attacks on affirmative action in education. employment. and contracting. I recall that only a few years ago. during the height of the debate over the budget deficit. much was made of the fact that a significant portion of our debt was held by Japan. but overlooked was the fact that both the British and Dutch had far greater investments in United States debt and property than the Japanese.
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