On April 24th 2008, tens of thousands of Chinese gathered in Canberra, the capital of Australia to show their support for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. For the large part, the torch run was successful and everybody was happy.
Well, not quite, not everybody. Not to some 500 exile Tibetan supporters, and certainly not to Mr. Garry Linnell, the editor-at-large of the Daily Telegraph. He wrote:
HERE comes the ugly face of China. He can’t be any more than 21-years-old. His eyes are full of hate, his jaw clenched so tight his cheeks seem ready to snap. His brain already has.
Here they go again! Instead of understanding the message of those Chinese people, Linnell and many other westerners chose to focus on the “ugly face of China” and the “hate” filled in his eyes. Suddenly, I remember something, the stereotypes of Chinese by the westerners, bucked teeth and slit eyes.
It just never gets old. Stereotyping China and Chinese has been the patent of the westerners who are either arrogant or afraid of the Chinese for over 200 years. I don’t think anybody should be surprised, but let’s give them some credits, they did adapt to a new reality, China has changed, Chinese have changed, and now they see an ugly face with anger.
Their smearing techniques, however, have not been evolving and adapting as they should. The same old “reliable sources” are used:
Kunchok, who was born in Tibet and came to Australia three years ago, is posing for a photograph with the Tibetan flag outside Commonwealth Park. A large group of Chinese supporters spy him from a distance and quickly surround him.
If you remember, western media quoted exclusively the Dalai Lama and his government-in-exile and started blaming the Chinese government for violent crackdown on the “peaceful Tibetan protesters”, despite the overwhelming evidence, and now Linnell just continues that tradition.
In Linnell’s whole article, he only quoted the pro-exiled-Tibetan crowds. After all, they are so much easier to spot, some 500 among 20,000 Chinese, and it’s simply so much easier to talk to the “peaceful” exiled Tibetan supporters rather than wasting time with the ugly-faced Chinese whose eyes are filled with hate.
Nobody is surprised, and nobody should be surprised, by the hostile and demeaning stereotyping displayed by the west and westerners. We still have a long road ahead of us, the road to a friendlier social environment, the road to a fairer international climate, and the road to a prosperous homeland.
Remember this, the west won’t change a bit, until we force them to.
If you think that’s an isolated incident, check this out: Column – China sends in the clowns
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West for-profit media is mainly for entertaining. So don’t take it seriously. When those guys are competing for the love of their audience, the one speaking like the average guy wins. The more negative it goes, the more uglyness it reveals.
The hatred towards non-believing foreigner is deep rooted in their exclusive religion that brainwashes the mass starting for their infancy.
BTW, did you notice that God in west religion is very oppressive? The one and the only one, and everyone else is his slave, at least mentally.
Well said, west say alot bad things about muslim fundamentalist, the truthn is most westerner are fundamentalist as well, they are fundamentalist of democracy and media freedom, now those 2 itself is nothign wrong, but when u become a fundamentalist, things start to go wrong. In medieval europe christian fundamentalist also thought they were the only right belief to be belived, and they are the only justis in the world, just like today’s west on democracy and freedom, they could burn ppl alive just cuz they belive those are witches, burning ppl alive while thinking they are doing a extremely rightous thing for their rightous belief, just like today.