| Hi Wang Jianshuo, I just started to visit your blog from yesterday. Nice blog indeed. Thanks for this blog, which allows me to share with rest of the people, no matter they are native Chinese, or from western world, as how we as ordinary Chinese people perceive and feel during recent unpleasant days. To begin with, I will answer the question that I was frequently asked recently. Why the Chinese seemed to be more agitated toward French ? Well , I guess this is mainly because most Chinese are pro-France before. We learnt about French revolution in high school. we read French novels and have our favorite French authors. When we started to earn money, we bought cosmetics and accessories made in France, though a LV bag might cost someone 2 month's salary. What Chinese people " perceived " during past years was that France is more friendly than U.S. or U.K . French people is more friendly toward Chinese people than their American or British counterparts. Then everything was changed after 7th., April. We saw 3 facts. 1) The disable female fence-player, jin Jing, was attacked in her wheelchair, without shelter or protection from the local security. This is even unacceptable in an uncivilized world. 2) The city mayor of Paris hung the huge banner on the building, advocating their so-called Human Right, as a "welcome gift " to the torch leg in Paris. I am not making any comments on HR here. Sports and Human Rights should be separate issues. By mixing them together at that particular moment, the politicians in Paris did a very wrong thing in the wong time. 3) The French people, by saying "French people" here, I mean French people in a big proportion , not just " only a few " as CCTV reported. the men and the women, the elderly and the youth, were in the protesting group boycotting Bei Jing Olympics game. In one of the video on internet, I heard a French elder shouted at an overseas Chinese student, " get out of France ! Go back to China !" He was not aiming at the Chinese Government, he was against an ordinary Chinese student, and thereby hurt all the Chinese people behind him. After 7th. April, every Chinese, especially those post-80's, or post-90's young generation , began to see France in a totally new perspective. As for those young overseas student who had witnessed all the facts, what new perception will they gain after the protest ? What profound changes will they bring to the future Sino-France relationship ? Most of the Chinese student who went abroad for education are more promising and talented than their peers , and they will be bound to play an important role in future international business. Back to the "boycott French products " issue. Personally I have already stopped using French cosmetics , and I know all the Chinese ladies in my company are doing the same. Outside the company people are demanding bigger boycotting, including stop shopping in Carrefour. Thanks to the "unfree press" in China, most ordinary people could not get full converge on the protest and the hostility those westerners presented to China , but they already learned some truth from internet. I know the boycott thing might be childish and immature, and it does no good to both sides in the long run. But other than that, we have no better way to express our outrage and disgust. Some major western media and quite a few of westerners made, and they're still making, big mistakes from the very beginning. 1) They mix Olympics with politics. 2) They mix Chinese people with Chinese government. 3) They mix themselves with God by fancying they were saving 1.3 billion of Chinese people from an abyss of extreme misery. Thanks for the mercy , but leave the Chinese business to the Chinese ! |
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