By Luca Muzi
Xenophobia and job losses prompt textile industry staff in Tuscany to consider returning to China
At the beginning of February, Ilaria Santi, a councillor in the Italian city of Prato, in Tuscany, visited the canteen of an elementary school. A Chinese girl asked her: “Aren’t you afraid of eating next to me?”
“I replied: ‘Why should I be afraid?’ and she said: ‘Afraid that I infect you with the coronavirus.’” I replied that the virus was unfortunately in the minds of too many people,” said Santi.
Source: ‘As if we were the disease’: coronavirus brings prejudice for Italy’s Chinese workers
