Source: https://www.facebook.com/SmallDogRescueUK
That’s it. I’ve completely and utterly lost
patience with the ignorance and hatred towards people from my racial and
cultural background
Over the past few weeks, a number of news stories
concerning the strange or appalling actions of a few people in China have been
circulated.
Stories like this one, where a man was
filmed beating puppies to death in a market in China. Another story also
concerned a man apparently divorcing and suing his wife, for being ugly and
deceiving him with cosmetic surgery.
In the past, we have also had stories from
China about a baby that was apparently flushed down a toilet. Another story
about a Chinese girl who was hit and killed by a car on a busy road, with seemingly
none of the bystanders stepping in to help.
And then there are the constant stories and
campaigns against the barbaric treatment of animals of China, and the moral
debate on dog meat for human consumption.
All this sensationalism serves to do, is to
encourage ignorance and racism against the Chinese.
Every time one of these stories breaks, certain
sections of people in society deem it necessary to use the following adjectives
to describe people from my community: Barbaric, disgusting, backward, even
“subhuman” – as was uttered by the singer Morrissey.
And what is worse is more and more people
seem to be buying into these new stories, and believing that the behaviours of
the few Chinese people highlighted are representative of the billions of other
Chinese across the world. Gradually these views are becoming mainstream.
I’ve had to read comments on Facebook and newspapers,
which generalise and stigmatise the whole Chinese race because of these stories
they have read.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/12/man-beats-five-puppies-to-death-in-front-of-horrified-shoppers-after-one-bites-his-finger-4183246/
I’ve seen them make ridiculous decisions to
boycott or attack Chinese takeaways and restaurants, because they read some
story about a dog being mistreated in China.
When I often point out their ignorance, I
am attacked by these people. In one Facebook group in particular, when I
pointed out the ignorance displayed, my comments were deleted and I was banned
from the group. This is the group in question: https://www.facebook.com/SmallDogRescueUK
Let me bloody tell you this.
I and the vast majority of Chinese people
out there, are similarly appalled at the man in China who beat those puppies to
death.
We are appalled at the girl that was left
to die in the road.
And guess what? We also think the guy who
divorced his wife for being ugly was also a ridiculous. That's if the story was even true in the first place.
How can you possibly make the judgment that
all the billions of Chinese people are the same based on a few news stories?
That we are all barbaric? That we all like to abuse animals, and make them
suffer for fun? How ignorant are some of you?
Does the fact a few news stories of high
profile British celebrities being jailed for pedophilia, mean I can make the
generalisation that all white British people are pedophiles? No it doesn’t.
Please open up your narrow minds, and stop
making sweeping generalisations about my community.
We are sick and tired of this ignorance and
racism towards us and we have had enough.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/posts/600003480034944
I urge all Chinese people read this now to
share this blog. Or even better, write your own blog on this. Write into
newspapers, magazines. Complain to the media owners who allow their readers to
continue to perpetuate and spread racist and ignorant comments.
Because unless we do something about it,
these views will eventually become almost mainstream.
