Yesterday everyone was brushed up by United`s reports of violent evictions of passengers, and the website, Weibo, the company, and even China and foreign countries alike, were rallying at United`s brutality as never before.
To tell the truth, the time gentleman has the feeling that read "Shuang Wen".
As a matter of fact, we discussed it yesterday and came to the conclusion that:
Whether the cause of this incident is "over-sale" or not, whether the "over-sale" itself is reasonable or not, and whether the assaulted passengers are Chinese or Asian, United Airlines waving their fists at unarmed passengers, Even with 10,000 explanations and perfunctory apologies, people around the world won`t buy it.
The violent passenger`s name is David Tao, a Vietnamese Chinese and a physician. He is said to be
: use of drugs to maintain sexual relations with men
: there is a history of illegal prescription drugs and medical licences have been revoked
: it is said that he has mental problems
But does it have anything to do with the way he was treated on the plane?
I don`t know if United really has the background of David, but please don`t do it. All the favors that remain are going to be wiped out.
If it`s really United`s passenger background, it`s just that they still don`t get to the point:
No passenger, no one should be treated like that. It has nothing to do with his background or his race.
This is what should be considered as an airline that needs to serve its passengers.
So, could it be because of his Asian-American face that the reason for having a "few cents" to this matter is that it really has something to do with it?
The suspicions of the matter are as follows:
: the passengers recalled that before the victims, several passengers were asked if they were willing to leave, but they all refused … The doctor, like these people, refused, but things turned out to be out of control.
: the victim and his wife volunteered to give up their seats at first, but they were reluctant to learn that the next flight would not take off until the afternoon of the following day. After that, something happened when David was chosen to give up his seat, and if it was really "random", it was a huge coincidence …
* John, sitting in front of the victim at the time, recalls: "many times? I don`t really remember hearing that he was notified only once, then quarreled, and the victim felt that he had been chosen for racial reasons. He was ashamed and tried to explain that he was a doctor who had to go. And United`s so-called "communication" (negotiation), is sorry, I don`t think I`ve ever heard of it. Then the police came up and didn`t explain it at all, just repeating, `you have to get out of the plane!` "
An already terrible thing, if it is really because of David`s Asian status, then the horror is even higher. I can`t believe I`m in a harmonious society.
So, what is the situation in Australia where we live?
In Australia, the history of Chinese immigrants can be traced back to the 1810`s, known as the Gentleman of the East, Mai Shiying, a Guangzhou man, is considered to be the first Chinese to settle in Sydney.
Then New South Wales and Victoria respectively discovered a large number of gold mines, setting off a huge gold rush, attracting a large number of Chinese miners. As of 1857, there were about 40,000 Chinese miners in Australia. With their descendants and families emigrated, the number of Chinese in Australia rose before the 20th century.
But not long ago, the newly established white-dominated autonomous goverment also held an exclusive attitude towards China, drawing up a series of bills to restrict Asian immigrants.
Edmund Barton, the first prime minister, declared that "the principle of equality applies only between the British and the Chinese." This situation directly led to the White Australia policy, which was initiated by Australia`s goverment in 1901, which was adopted as a national policy, and all Asian Americans, including Chinese, began to be excluded by the government and the goverment.
At the time, white hostility towards Asian immigrants was reflected by the word "yellow disaster", especially in Australia.
Goverment also worries that increasingly uncontrollable Asian immigrants will significantly lower white pay levels. Because these Asian immigrants are very hard-working, but also very hard-working, can accept lower wages.
The White O Policy came into effect in 1901 and was not abolished until 1973.
Gradually, Asians, including Chinese, began to grow in Australia, many of whom were highly skilled and knowledgeable.
Asian immigrants have always attached great importance to their children`s education, with a harder attitude than others to study and struggle, "out-of-school make-up classes, break the head also have to go to elite high schools, famous universities" of the children, Asian-Americans are the most.
Gradually, the status of Asian residents in society continues to improve, but also a large number of skilled immigrants from overseas.
But has there been any change in racial discrimination, especially "implicit" discrimination?
There has been media coverage of racial discrimination in Australia before.
"Chinese people face greater discrimination than aborigines, and 90 percent of Chinese say they have been discriminated against because of their Asian status," he said.
Have you ever been treated differently because of "Asian" status?
Among those who do not speak English at home, teenagers who speak Chinese at home suffer the highest rate of racial discrimination, according to a Mission Australia survey.
Think it`s an exaggeration? You haven`t been discriminated against? At the bottom of the report, the only comment is:
"you don`t speak English at home? This problem is easy to solve: just speak English at home! "
Is this invisible discrimination? Is that at least disrespectful?
The invisible discrimination suffered by Asian descent can not be solved by speaking English at home.
Not long ago, there was a popular tag on twitter called # freedomofspeech, to tell people about the racial discrimination they had encountered in Australia, and the experiences of these discriminated Asians were even more distressing.
In this, there are a lot of Asian.
"when I was ten years old, I was at the local swimming pool, and a group of white boys held my head down in the water, mocking me for being Asian."
"another student at school asked me about my nationality, and I said Australia because I was born and raised here, but because of my Asian face, they called me a liar."
These things happen just because you have a Zhang Yazhou face? Of course, there is a larger crackdown on Chinese..
A Chinese in real estate found his company on a construction site on the back of Sydney with discriminatory anti-Asian slogans:
"No more Asians. This is not like Australia, we speak English, we read and write in English. Don`t insult our country, we won`t insult your country. We asked to stop the 457 work visa. It was a scam. Australians have lost their jobs; all Asian businesses and employers employ only Asians. Stop letting Asians apply for goverment aid; they are ineligible; this leaves Australians homeless. Don`t let the Asians come again. If they come, they won`t go back. Asians are not allowed to use welfare cards illegally. Stop them from occupying seats on our bus. To save our Australian culture, goverment wants to destroy our culture for the short term. Australia is not Asia! "
