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Across the country, there has been an uptick in reported instances of discrimination towards people of Asian descent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Missoula, a small college town burrowed in the Rocky Mountains, has proven to be no exception. Motoki Kato came to Missoula from Osaka, Japan earlier this year as an undergraduate exchange student studying anthropology. In March, Kato was smoking a cigarette on the University of Montana campus in a designated smoking area when a man shouted “coronavirus†at him as he sped past. The University of Montana’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, an academic unit...
