| The recent anti-France and boycott of French retailer Carrefour drama shows that the majority of Chinese youth, with high education, low education or no education lacks independent thinking and civilized mindset. Unfortunately, the blogger either seems to belong to that patriotic group or purposefully spreads misleading message. France is the first Western contry to establish formal diplomatic relationship with China more than 40 years ago when China was as isolated as North Korea today. Has Chinese learned to be grateful to a 40-year friend? Now the Western media such as BBC starts to report the anti-France rally. It seems to me that the report is as restrained as can be and tries not to offend angry Chinese including the blogger and his friends. But as far as I know, a few sit-ins were held in front of Jing-Qiao Carrefour and Pu-Tuo Carrefour in Shanghai yesterday. In neighouring He Fei, An Hui Province, hundreds of angry demonstrators burned some Dutch Flags (mistaken for French flags!) in front of a Carrefour store. The so-called harmonious Olympics looks more and more like a joke now and it probably will end up in the dumps just like the plunging Chinese stock market. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7356107.stm |
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