{"id":6695,"date":"2020-09-30T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greencardvoices.org\/?post_type=product&p=6695"},"modified":"2023-02-27T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T01:32:01","slug":"pre-order-special-series-chinatown-illustrated-poster","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.greencardvoices.org\/product\/pre-order-special-series-chinatown-illustrated-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"“Chicago Chinatown during COVID” Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]#LoveYourAsianNeighbor 8×10 illustrated poster by Japanese\/Taiwanese American illustrator, <\/span>Cori Nakamura Lin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Chinatowns across the nation are well-known for welcoming people from all over the world to its destination – full of restaurants, culture, art, history, shops, and community. But since the nationwide stay-at-home orders of COVID-19\/Coronavirus, tourism in Chinatown drastically declined causing many restaurants to close down, cut hours, switch over to curbside pickup and delivery – resulting businesses to drop down as much as <\/span>80 percent.<\/span><\/a> Chicago Chinatown\u2019s Joy Yee restaurant, which opened in 1996 and now operates seven locations, has seen sales decline to 60 percent over coronavirus fears, shared by <\/span>Vincent Li, Manager of Joy Yee.<\/span><\/a> Even restaurants like <\/span>Strings Ramen in Chicago<\/span><\/a>, try to generate income loss by working with food bloggers and posting more on social media to draw customers.<\/span><\/p>\n The situation worsened as xenophobic fears and anti-Asian racism caused a large portion of the general public to avoid Asian resturants due to the virus coming from Wuhan, China. <\/span>Ellen Dong<\/span><\/a>, whose family owned Q Ideas in Chicago Chinatown said, \u201cthis year has encapsulated the long-standing paradox of being Asian American: of both being invisible, blending in the background, and still being alien in the eyes of others.\u201d <\/span>Eric Kwok <\/span><\/a>who grew up in Chicago Chinatown and family who started in the restaurant business said, \u201cit changed the way that I think Americans viewed their fellow Chinese or Asian American because people are thinking, \u201cOh, we have to stay away from the Chinese food and Chinese restaurants and the people.\u201d <\/span>Vincent Chen<\/span><\/a>, a server at JiangHu BBQ says, \u201cI don\u2019t know how the American government works cause they just say, \u201cit is safe, don\u2019t worry about it, it is safe,\u201d I was very confused, Really, it\u2019s safe? I don\u2019t agree with that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Residents and businesses will face more challenges. \u201cI think the media is not helping for businesses. So much coverage is getting people more afraid than they should be,\u201d <\/span>Geraldo Bernaldez<\/span><\/a>, Assistant General Manager at Imperial Lamian said. We cannot know yet whether our Chinatown community will have resilience enough to survive this current pandemic. Our strength goes well beyond the virus, racism, xenophobia, and fear. Our strength is bonded by community and love. Let\u2019s shift the narratives with #LoveYourAsianNeigbors by filling everyone\u2019s newsfeed to speak up against anti-Asian racism and xenophobia.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Green Card Voices launched<\/span> #LoveYourAsianNeighbors <\/b>on March 25, 2020<\/span>, <\/b>a social media campaign to combat the harm being inflicted on Asian American communities by sharing important anti-xenophobic messaging related to COVID-19, and to build solidarity with all of our neighbors. As a part of the #LoveYourAsianNeighbors campaign, Green Card Voices collaborated with three immigrant illustrators to create illustrations fueled by recent xenophobic cases. <\/span><\/p>\n