Vancouver resident Trixie Ling recalls her disgust and anger after a passing stranger taunted her with racial and sexual slurs in early May. Then he spat on her face. "I was feeling a mixture of shock, the disgust, the sadness that it happened to me," says Ling in an interview with AFP near the scene.

"But I knew I'm not the only one this has happened to." Ling is indeed not alone. A new survey obtained by AFP suggests the problem is deeply rooted: One in four British Columbians of East Asian descent said