Hate Crimes?

As I am reading further into Fledgling I realize that this story doesn't directly correlate with race but instead with hate crime in general. Hate crime in general terms is targeting a victim because of his or her membership in a certain social group. Within the first 60 pages the reader did not know the identity of the vampire girl that gave the reader a chance to know the girl without an actual connection to who she is; it seems like the reader was able to ease into the novel and understand who she is. But when the reader found out the girls name, Shori, the reader also finds out that her "family" was hurt and killed. And since the families in this community were vampires, people are scared that they die from vampires, instead of understanding them, they want to get rid of them first.