COVID BROUGHT ANTI-ASIAN RACISM...
2:55 PM 27 Jan. 2020 from Paris, France
But the growing support of "Gauls" for the New Year's celebration show it insignificant, at least in the 13th. For example:
- A Franprix superette in 2024 had the decor in below, but did not sell Asian products. 2015 ...and in posted an announcement on its web site to promote a range of Asian products:
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"Chinese New Year: Discover our selection of products"
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Rue Ponscarme (five minutes away from rue National, but still in the "French" neighborhood)
- The library
- The mall
- City Hall sponsored two weeks of events.
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The public
- The evening before New Year, kids (mostly Asian but also French) saluted it with costumes, banners and drums in front of a Chinese optician's store on the border of the Asian and French neighborhoods, enthralling passers-by:
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- Next day, that of the parade, French and Asian restaurants filled the Asian restaurants, even when away from the parade route. This one, just beyond it, took no reservations and there was a 20-minute wait to get in:
- A crowd lined up in the rain to watch the parade, two hours before it began.
Corner rue de Tolbiac / avenue de Choisy
People waiting under umbrellas
suggest that racism, at least here, has lost its hold.
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