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When will this anti-Chinese social media and news flurry end? Is posting a 2016 opinion piece with a loaded title like this (from the japantimes no less) likely
by tepidandroid 7y ago
When will this anti-Chinese social media and news flurry end? Is posting a 2016 opinion piece with a loaded title like this (from the japantimes no less) likely to generate any semblance of a nuanced discussion? Or is it likely to devolved into racist personal, anecdotal circlejerking about how terrible all Chinese tourists are?
I'm glad this got flagged, but I'm also equally disappointed in how many upvotes this post garnered in the span of a few minutes. Shot right to the top of HN.
- Ultramanoid 7y agoFor what it's worth, a Taiwanese co-worker sent me the link, commenting along with it that in Japan we're too nice about this. In Taipei they raise hell when a mob of mainlanders behave like unruly five year old kids. This is not about anti-Chinese sentiment at all. Spend five minutes talking to Chinese folks of Taiwan, Singapore, or Hong Kong, or you know what, even with Chinese studying or working in the West ( a part of the world which I am not a fan of, and less so every year ) and see what they tell you. This is a very specific issue about a very specific group of people in very specific circumstances.