Life in a Christchurch ethnoburb during Covid-19
A man waiting for a bus looks across tentatively when he hears shouting but quickly averts his gaze. The lights change and the racists are gone, their toxic emissions lingering in the air. It is a day after someone on the area’s community Facebook page posted a warning about “hearing a lot of coughing at Church Corner’’. Stacy Squires/Stuff China Town Market in Christchurch offers a wide variety of international goods. Unofficially this area, something of an ethnoburb, is known as “Chinatown”. One business owner explains this is simply because, from the street, the China Town ...
Source: stuff.co.nz