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I Felt Afraid of Public Opinions Now The decline of number of tourists in France is not a new boycott . It's just the subsequence of the boycott in April, after the fiasco of torch relay in Paris and the city mayor conferred honorable citizenship to Dalailama. The Chinese central government did not ban travels in France. It was Bei Jing municipality which sent a message to its major travel agencies that all Chinese tourists in France should pay special attention to their own safety as they may confront hostility from local French considering the subtle Sino-French relationship at this particular moment. The message has been well received and ardently responded by both the travel agencies and most citizens, and as a result, France as a tourism destination was removed from all the catalogues in June in Bei Jing travel agencies . However, if you want to travel in France , you can still choose travel agencies in other cities, like Shang hai or Guang Zhou, which will deliver service as normal. The boycott of travel in France only took place in Bei Jing. When Chinese people protested after Paris boycotted the torch relay and honored Dalailama, the French president told them that it was a decision made by the city hall of Paris and the government could not interfere with that. So this time, the Chinese government asserted it was the spontaneous behavior by Bei Jing municipality and its citizen, the central government would not get involved or force its people to travel in France. What I wrote above is not a confirmed report from any official sources, just a narration of one of my friends working in travel agency in Bei Jing. I learned that some French netizens had already began to call for a vindictive boycott to all Chinese products, including MP3, LCD, computer , clothes.... . And in response to this proposal, their Chinese counterparts claimed they would boycott French Aircraft, nuclear power station and Private car afterward. I am just wondering if all this will eventually lead to a cold war between France and China. |
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I Felt Afraid of Public Opinions Now Two days after Sharon Stone made her unreflecting remarks on the earthquake, her advertisement in the shopping center in our building was removed from Dior boutique. In the past days, I was overwhelmed by the public criticism on this " shallow , brainless, cold-blooded hag " on internet. It reminds me of the Chinese saying , spits from all mouths can make a person drown. 1 month after what happened to Carrefour, again , I realized how prominent and overwhelming the " public opinion" could be . The prevailing opinion in Stone's case is that the meltdown of her career in China serves her right, while there were controversial views in Wang Shi's case. I think more and more people began to realize that money was not the only measurement to evaluate people's willingness to help. It just takes a little bit more time for them to regain the rationality. In this sense, you're not standing on the opposite side, you just stand higher and look further than they do. Don't feel helpless. It takes time for millions of Chinese netizens to practise rational thinking before they do passionate posting. With time passing by, we will gradually have a more mature netizen group with more diversity of views here in China. And by then, you may feel proud for taking the lead at one time. |
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How We Can Help? What can we help ? 1) Don't go to the earthquake area in person unless you are a professional in rescue or reconstruction after the disaster. My local friends told me that lots of volunteers, with no experience or professional equipments, went to the epicenter on feet on or in their private cars, bringing little food or water. They intended well but they not only brought additional pressure to local transportation, but also consumed local water and food supply, which were limited already. 2) Don't deliver goods to the earthquake area to block the transportation system unless you are 100% sure what you're going to deliver is urgently needed by victims there. Days ago, my company delivered a batch of medicines and medical equipment to Si Chuan . The goods arrived in Shuang Liu Airport the same day they delivered, but it took my local colleague 2 days to pick them up . It almost drove me mad. There have been so many cargos from all of the country which piled in the airport, even the most emergent goods have to wait long time for pick-up. What are needed : Foods, Water, tents, Medicine and medical equipment. What are NOT needed, or NOT needed at this point: Second-hand clothers, Toys, books and etc. I just called the Red Cross in Si Chuan this morning, who told me that second-hand clothers had already became a burden to them. Second-hand clothes can not be put into use immediately, they need to be sterilized first while both manpower and resource were limited there. I was also told that stuff for infants are urgently needed, but were rarely found among relief goods delivered to Si Chuan, such as milk powder, foods, clothers and diapers. Again, pls be reminded they MUST be brand new to avoid second infection. You may call local Women union for more information. 3) Donate money. There have been various ways you can donate your money, and help the local victims. 4) There are many things in the long run that we can help. Just keep the helping spirit going, and help in longer terms.This is my faviorte part in this thread. |
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"Love China" Blooms on MSN Messenger Hi Belacqua, The poem you posted on this blog was just spiteful, disgusting , and offensive in particular for women . It serves a good example how evil can be exercised under the name of " freedom", no matter it is a " free posting " or " free protest ". Ô Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom ! ” However, the poem you posted here does NOT mean: 1) the message it conveys is right, or 2) most Chinese people love this poem and think the same. ( On the contrary, most Chinese people will find it disgusting , like I do. ) , or 3) the majority Chinese people should be accused because of this poem. Similarly , I can give you plenty of links directing to offensive comments on China and its people, and I can also share with you some most disgusting things done by some Western hoodlums in night club, bar streets in Bei Jing , Shang Hai and Guang Zhou. But I won't do that. Why ? Because those virulent things have nothing to do with people here, and what bunch of goons and thugs did in China does't represent the majority of people in their home countries, or imply that the majority people should foot the bill for the wrong things done by a small proportion. In this sense, you were doing nothing smarter than some biased western media by purposely selecting the worst side and trying to make the rest of the people believe that this represent the majority of the Chinese, which is pathetical and totally wrong. What piss me off most is that any discussion , ANY, between some arrogant westerners and a Chinese, would be eventually directed to Tibet or human rights. It is the most popular game enjoyed by biased wetsterns around the whole world. I came to this blog to seek possiblities of communication and understanding bettween diffirent camps, but all of my efforts turned out to be in vain. The bias is just rooted in both sides of us too deeply, and the great gulf between us can unlikely be filled. To put an end to my last visit to this blog, let me borrow what you wrote in your last post with only minor changes, which can perfectly describe how I feel now. WE have lived in China for more than 5,000 YEARS and WE have extensive knowledge of it. WE ARE undoubtedly familiar with more of its cities, HISTORY, CULTURE AND THE REALITY through personal experience than most WESTERNERS. WE do not need you to patronise US as you seem to think is your duty. This is a very clear message I am trying to convey to people like you , in your own lauauge and your original sentences. Hopefully you will clearly receive it. |
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"Love China" Blooms on MSN Messenger Sorry. My last post was addressed to " Belacqua " in stead of Andrew. Lucy, GN is a Native Chinese and his brain works damn good ...... |
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"Love China" Blooms on MSN Messenger To Andrew, I have been following BBC and CNN all the time in recent days. That's why I thought they were biased western media in term of coverage on China. ( I only read reports on China so I won't make judgment on their reports on other nations or countries ) . Well, if you follow BBC closely enough, probably you have already read a report titled " China-online: Tibet and torch reaction " . You will also find that Wang Jianshuo, the master of this blog, was refered in that report. More interestingly, you can find a link of a ditty titled " Don't be too CNN " on that page. It's a video widely spread among blogs and netizens in recent days, and almost everyone of us can hum this loverly song. " Don't be too CNN" means "don't be too arrogant and ignore the fact " . When one of the colleagues tends to be too judgmental or keeps ignoring facts, we will remind him or her " Don't be too CNN " or " You're behaving BBC now ". This became quite popolar in recent conversations. As for the Tibetan lauguage thing. I could care less about learning it. Why ? Because I myself is an ethnic minority , if you remember that, and I have my own language to learn. I also learned mandarin from primary school, and then English, so I would be able to communicate with you guys here. Do you know that there are 56 ethnic groups here in China ? Like Tu Jia, Miao , Zhuang . .... just to name a few of them. Tibetan is just only one of them, nothing special. I don't think their people or their language are superior than mine. We are just equal. But why some westerners only took intest in Tibet ? I guess that is because some monks there caused troubles. This is something some westerners are willing to see, and they could not be more happier than seeing turbulence in China |
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"Love China" Blooms on MSN Messenger "unfreeze" should have been "unfree". Unfreeze makes no sense here. BTW, though we could not have full coverage from CCTV, we can learn some truth from internet. China possesed of the largest population of internet surfers in the world. Thank Hieronymous for his comments which sounds reasonable and neutral. I paid a visit to U.K. last summer. The people are great, but the food there sucks. ( Am I breaking the rule again ? Is attacking food in some country allowed on this blog ? ) TO GN, though I can not agree with you on some of your points, but I am sure you have brain, and it does works ! |
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"Love China" Blooms on MSN Messenger To Andrew, In terms of wonderful things, no matter it's a beautiful art work, or a great invention , or a great sports event, like Olympics , I think SHARING by the whole human kind is a magnificent thing. We all know that powder was invented in Eastern world, to be more specific , it was invented in China . Well, hopefully, your " free press " has given fair report on that fact. But for the moment it is best utilized in Western world, well, to be more specific , in the U.S army. See what the U.S. force had done in Iraq ! How many buildings had they bombed ? How many innocent people, including children, had they killed ? We did not say, 'Fuck It, Go back to use your spear. Stop using the powder we invented ! " and we did not boycott any products made in U.S. because of the slaughter. Why ? Because Chinese people drew a very distinct line between American government and American people. We know that American parents feel the same grieve when they lose theirs sons in the war like any Chinese parents would do in those instances. Back to the boycott things. Well, stop shopping French products might be silly. But so far as I am concerned, holding a sign which reads " No Fur " before Harrods is nothing smarter, because that would NOT prevent fashion industry making billions of U.S dollars profit from fur business. But I do respect those protestors, as they have showed concern for the environment and the nature. By the way, I used to think the protesting in free western countries should not involve any personal attacks. Apparently I was wrong because even a disabled lady could have been attacked under the name of " free protection" , and nobody offered shelter because " the government should not waste their citizen's tax dollar on petty things like this " ! In today's China's newspaper, the Chinese government called for a " dispassionate and reasonable mental attitude" toward " boycotting Carrefour " , they said the patriotism is understandable, but unreasonable behavior like "boycott French products " is discouraged. " In this sense , I can agree no more that Chinese press is "unfreeze", because it concealed the hostility some western countries had showed for China, though it might be in small proportion, but the behaviors were disgusting enough to hurt us all. |
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"Love China" Blooms on MSN Messenger To Wang Jianshuo , I agree with the rule you set. No rule, no game. Otherwise the dialogues among different camps will lead to nowhere , and eventually we will stop generating wonderful debating but start throwing bricks into each other. To GN, I sincerely apologize for the offensive comments I made on your skin and brain . I affirm you have both two organs , and they should be of normal size. Additionally, to show my respect for the rule, I will use the example given by the blog master to rephrase my original sentence in this way. Your idea is the worst I've ever heard of ….. And to the rest of the people here who might feel even slightly offended by my comments on GN, you have my sincere apology. I came here to seek understanding , communication and ways to solve the problem, rather than to make it worse. Summer_go |
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"Love China" Blooms on MSN Messenger To GN, You don't have to tell everybody that you have "thick skin ", apparently all the people on this blog can see that. And I believe you are the only one who hasn't been " brainwashed " here , because so far as I am concerned, you don't even got any brain for anyone to "wash" . To Betadj, I don't think just because of language barrier, people should be banned from free talking here. Btw, as we Chinese are creative people , we don't call it "Chinese-english", we call it " Chinglish", which generates more fun. |
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"Love China" Blooms on MSN Messenger 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 ! |