Asian American businesses saw drops in customers as high as 80% long before U.S. isolation rules, as stigma surrounding the virus kept customers out of local Chinatowns.
As stay-home orders have arisen quickly across the country in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus, local restaurants and businesses have seen drastically reduced customer traffic and plummeting profits. But perhaps few have been as greatly affected as Asian American businesses, which sawlong before the U.S. began its push for isolation, as stigma surrounding the virus kept customers out of Chinatowns and Chinese restaurants.
of verbal harassment, shunning and physical assault in just two weeks — some groups are working to raise awareness of the issue.In New York City, home to several of the country’s largest Chinatowns, a new grassroots initiative seeks to help boost restaurants’ business as their sales continue to suffer.
Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo has seen dozens of shops and restaurants temporarily close in recent weeks, as well as severe losses of business for those that have remained open. #LoveLT, an initiative organized by the Little Tokyo Community Council, calls on residents to support the community by donating meals, ordering takeout or delivery, shopping online, or spreading word about the initiative.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Andrew Yang faces backlash from the Asian American community over op-edFormer Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is facing backlash from the Asian American community for his column in The Washington Post last week addressing racism surrounding the novel coronavirus. The article, titled 'We Asian Americans are not the virus, but we can be part of the cure
Read more »
Asian markets mostly down as traders fret over virusAsian shares were mostly lower, gyrating in early Wednesday trading amid uncertainty over the coronavirus outbreak, which continues to claim more lives around the world.
Read more »
'Tigertail' director Alan Yang on the unspoken stories behind Asian parents’ journey to America“It's about how we show love to our families, how we talk to the people we love, how we're honest with them, or not honest with them and vulnerable with them or not vulnerable with them,” Yang said. “It's a universal story of love.”
Read more »
Asian companies pose lower dividend risk due to stronger financesAsian firms appear better equipped to pay stable dividends compared with their western counterparts that are constrained by highly levered balance-sheets and a need to preserve cash during the coronavirus outbreak.
Read more »
Asian Americans use social media to drown out bigotryA string of racist run-ins in the last 2 weeks has given rise to hashtags — WashTheHate, RacismIsAVirus, IAmNotCOVID19 — and online forums to report incidents. - NBCAsianAmerica
Read more »