Asian Restaurants Lost Billions, in Revenue Due to Pandemic-Era, Racism, Study Says.br According to a recent study, a racially-driven stigma in the br first year of the pandemic cost Asian restaurants in the br United States an estimated $7.4 billion in revenue.br NBC reports that the study, published last week in br the journal 'Nature Human Behavior,' found that Asian restaurants lost 18.4 more than other restaurants in 2020.br Following the outbreak of the pandemic,br the U.S. saw numerous incidents of anti-Asian br racism from harassment to direct violence.br According to Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition founded in response to growing racism, nearly 11,500 incidents were recorded between March 2020 and March 2022. .br When you have something like folks br just choosing not to eat in a Chinese br restaurant, that is something that’s a lot br more subtle and under the surface, br but it’s also a lot more common, Masha Krupenkin, assistant professor of political br science at Boston College, via NBC.br According to the study's co-author, Masha Krupenkin, br the relationship between partisanship and human behavior br is one of the most important drivers of discrimination.br People tend to really strongly follow br cues from their party leaders. So Trump br setting an example and calling COVIDbr 'the China virus' and really laying blame br on China, I think, was one of the key br drivers of the effects that we saw, br especially among Republicans, Masha Krupenkin, assistant professor of political br science at Boston College, via NBC.br According to Krupenkin, the report found that non-Chinese Asian restaurants had even less traffic than br Chinese restaurants amid the pandemic.