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Keys, Wallet, Pepper Spray: The New Reality for Asian-Americans
Jessica Chia
© An Rong Xu for The New York Times
Anish Bramhandtam, left, and his husband, Arthur, no longer leave home without pepper spray.
Last spring Annie Chen, who works in human resources, read about an Asian woman who had been punched in the face and yelled at by a stranger just a few blocks from where she lived in Midtown Manhattan.
Five days later, Ms. Chen, 25, bought her first canister of pepper spray.
She had been struck by the way the public perception of Asian-Americans had suddenly changed, she said, and simply wanted to protect herself. “I felt like if people had any anger or frustration and if you were just walking around being a person who ....

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