| As you just mentioned in your post, it's impossible to generalize and say that French are bad and that you should boycott their products! And of course, what will happen when you have bigger boycotts not only in France but in the European Union, I think that is a totally immature way to react. I think some people who are protibet could be violent because they are desperate imagine all what they have lost, families who are apart, people whose religion is attacked and diminished their traditions and languages are only ok to express in some places where chinese govt agrees and of course the big problem of being educated in a different way and lost ancient traditions trasmitted by education in the tibetan system. People dont choose what their govt do neither the hsitory of their ancestors, because many of the people who are tibetans now, they dont even think its a problem to speak mandarin, because they have always being like that, since they were born some few years ago. Try to think what would you feel if japanese, korean, american or even latinamericans came to your country and changed your old ways taught you anothr language, expressed against your beliefs, even letting you do your stuff but only sometimes in some areas or moments.... when they could think its even ok to be proud of having that culture, but only a little, not as a bigger thing that han culture. I dont agree with violence, but i know also that chinese could be very violent as it has been before in tian'anmen and other big problems and protests, even when the world knows little about them. People in Xinjiang and people in Yunnan and Guangzhou are against some of the control of PRC and they have even went to jail because of expressing their oposition... How can Chinese now complain about other countries being violent? If Chinese are violent against themselves? Its difficult to take parts... But definitively its not ok to do whatever is apart from debating talking and promoting peace and reasonable agreements first... Lets see what happens with the olympics and pls think twice about starting childish measures like boycott or things like that... You think you are being a nationalist, but you can collapse your economy if many big importers of yours become against china now... And i think you can lose more face in this process because you are in the media eye and whatever reaction will be taken out of context and could be very bad... Its your oportunity to show you can lead the world in a better way than US. Hope you can do it because we (the world) need that change, but its important to be responsible about your reactions in order to achieve it... And become a bigger and more respected power in the world. |
Friends Started to Boycott French Products