On March 18, a video broadcast on Italy's largest television station sparked an instant debate in the local overseas Chinese circle:
A local Italian reporter, with the help of an Italian-Chinese girl, angled the local Chinese black car driver in Milan (referring to the fact that the Italian overseas Chinese carried Chinese tourists and local residents with Chinese tourists and local residents through royal charters, website propaganda, acquaintances' introductions, and so on) without a certificate of competency. Drivers who do not pay Italian taxes)
In the video, the woman first introduced to Italian reporters the use and operation of car-hailing app, but also introduced the use of overseas Chinese in Italy, such as Alipay, WeChat payment and other convenient ways.
These, however, are not well received and understood by the Italians.
Subsequently, the woman skillfully made an appointment in Chinese to a Chinese black car driver.
After a long walk with the driver, the woman succeeded in getting into the car. She was wearing a pinhole camera and a recording device, and the show's planner followed in another car.
After getting on the bus, the woman started talking and laughing with the driver, and then asked the driver for some precautions in the job, citing "my father wants to do the job, too."
During the chat, the driver gradually revealed a lot of key information to the woman. For example, only need Italian driver's license, only send Chinese, as well as Alipay and WeChat transfer payment.
Then the girl asked one of the most critical questions: do I have to pay taxes? The driver's answer was "unclear".
And it was this "unclear" that touched Italy's most sensitive nerves.
After the woman got out of the car, the host took a tape recording in an attempt to interview the Chinese driver. Under the aggressive questioning, the driver's face is difficult to know how to deal with.
As soon as the news came out, it immediately aroused the attention and anger of the Italian overseas Chinese.
With the exposure of the incident, Chinese drivers involved in the incident may face penalties such as revocation of their licences and fines, and heavy penalties may lead to more and more difficulties in picking up flights at Chinese airports in the future, and local Italian police are raising their vigilance against the Chinese people. The situation of Italian overseas Chinese will also become more difficult.
According to a number of Italian media reports, the widespread use of Chinese online car-hailing software has already led to dissatisfaction among local taxi drivers and NCC drivers in Milan against the Chinese drivers group, and the recent conflict between the two sides has been further intensified on February 24. At a time when Milan's fashion Zhou Zheng was in full swing, one of Milan's most watched newspapers, the Milan Post, published an article.
At Malpensa airport, a large number of Chinese tourists use Chinese car-hailing software to pay illegal Chinese taxi drivers, but they are not friends, the article said. According to investigators, there are about 420 illegal taxi drivers in Milan who do not have a full taxi license or NCC authorization. According to article 86 of the Italian Road Law, Chinese drivers who operate illegally are punished by law with a two-month licence and a fine of 118 euros.
According to a report by the European Union News Agency, on 20 March local time, an Italian Chinese drove to Miran Malpensa International Airport to pick up the plane. When the Chinese arrived at the airport, they were suspected of being "black cars" by members of the Milan "picket team" and were blocked for no reason. And restrict the departure of Chinese drivers.
According to reports, in recent years, after the Chinese underground taxi incident, Italian airports, docks and high-end hotels have become a sensitive area of conflict between Chinese and Italian rental industries.
Many Chinese have an inexplicable fear of picking up guests at the airport. The "black car" incident seriously disrupted the normal life and work of the Chinese and caused panic in the Chinese community.
After reading the report, some netizens said: "France is France, but what is the difference between this practice and reporting of local overseas Chinese in disguise?"
After the incident, the Chinese women in the video were also denounced by netizens and "human flesh." on the Chinese streets, there were also comments from suspected family members of the women:
It is unclear what impact the incident will ultimately have, and how the Chinese driver was fishing.
But, predictably, the Italian authorities are bound to crack down on black rentals after the revelations.
In the Chinese streets, the suspected girl's grandfather also claimed that the girl would not apologize, the television station just said that she was asked to do an interpreter, "she thinks she has done a great thing for Italy."
At the same time, some people who claim to know the girl said that the girl was only deceived by the television station, but also malicious clips broadcast.
She spoke for the Chinese, but was deleted, and the girl herself was remorseful.
On this topic, an anonymous netizen from Zhihu said:
The reason why the Chinese community is angry is that in the video, the girl not only unraveled the trade secrets and procedures of the Chinese rental itself, but also used the trust of the taxi driver to record some evidence that the Italians attacked the Chinese.
But if she had a foreigner's face, the taxi driver wouldn't have let her in, which could have gone away. There are things that Italians have long been jealous of, but with no proof, the girl's no doubt gave the Italians the evidence they had dreamed of.
She used her face as a pass in the Chinese world, but betrayed her ethnicity. This is outrageous. The Chinese themselves are very hard-working in Italy. The people who are excluded from the country are simply unable to understand. Chinese people can understand the discrimination of exclusion from the foreign race, and the Chinese can understand, abdicate, and tolerate it. But harm from within the community will certainly be condemned by the Chinese community as a whole.
As described by netizens, the living conditions of Chinese Italians can be said to be relatively difficult, taking Chinese drivers for example.
Italy has about 60000 licences, including 40000 taxi licences and nearly 20000 NCC chauffeured licences, according to Italy's 24-hour newspaper.
These numbers look huge, but getting a license is not easy. Because you don't have a license to be a taxi driver.
First of all, it takes more than three years of driving, no major traffic accidents and no record of violations in three years, and a very strict test to get a taxi driver's license.
After the license has been obtained, it is also necessary to apply for a license to operate. But there are so few permits that even transfers, as high as one hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand euros, can keep a lot of people out of the door.
But even if all of these are ready, Italy's own tax system has become a bigger problem.
According to the anonymous netizens of the know-how:
Under Italy's current tax system, it is difficult for Chinese to make money. And the general lack of Chinese professional skills, unable to engage in high-end occupation, so if the low-end industrial chain to think better can only work hard, sacrifice their rest time.
Italy's exceedingly high tax pressure makes tax avoidance a problem every taxpayer has to face. After all, nearly 60% of the tax pressure, so that every hard-working people will feel bitter. This means that for every 100 dollars in net profit, 60 dollars of income will be handed over to the country.
In the face of losses, Italy's public welfare did not do as well as the Nordic countries (high taxes, high welfare), resulting in a "tax avoidance" phenomenon, from the prime minister to the peddlers without exception.
Returning to the incident of the girl fishing for a black rent, her actions reinforced the Italian misinterpretation of the Chinese and made the Italians more hostile to the Chinese, which is what she did wrong.
Chinese taxis do not pay taxes, but their customers are limited to Chinese areas, and both passengers and drivers are Chinese. Drivers find a job to support their families, and passengers get cheaper and more efficient services (Italian taxis are too expensive and oddly priced, they start counting miles from taxi stops, traffic jams, Extra money at night)
This service is limited to Chinese, it is a grey area, but it does make a better life for Chinese.
At the same time, the Italian government has not given the Chinese any chance to legalize the business.
We do not know what the truth is and how the girl and the television agreed in advance.
But we go abroad, not lack of adults, but also have their own judgment.
At the very least, you should have a clear understanding of the consequences of your choices.
The day can only say so much, the rest, for everyone to judge.