Print It is a simple gesture, really. A glance over the shoulder. How many of us have done this? But for the Rev. Gilbert Sim, that glance tells the grim reality his San Diego congregants — and Asian Americans around the country — have been living. “Many of us actually are terrified by the incidents, by how this whole thing got escalated so fast,” says Sim, who is the pastor of First Chinese Southern Baptist Church in Clairemont Mesa. “All of a sudden, there are thousands of cases.” And this is when he turns his head and looks over his shoulder. “We don’t like that feeling,” he says. “Nobody likes that feeling.”