Several Asian members of New Zealand’s Wellington Sinfonia were taunted with racial slurs this week while on tour in the town of Masterton this week, and one Asian violinist was physically assaulted on the street in an apparently racially-motivated incident. The woman “was approached by a girl described by witnesses as wearing ‘Gothic-style clothing’ and who said ‘why don’t you just go back to where you came from’ and then hit her in the face.”