Yesterday, Chinese mothers formed a team at Melbourne supermarket to steal Chinese cabbage leaves throughout the major Chinese media.
For a time, this "cabbage case" attracted netizens to denounce, the quality of the Chinese again on the headlines.
The thing is, it's like this:
Recently, a Chinese supermarket in Melbourne in Doncaster posted the following announcement:
According to the description of the salesperson, the basic operation procedure of the ladies:
Chinese cabbage, we all know that the outside vegetable leaves may not be very fresh, even a little wilting! So when we buy, we may rip off a leaf or two that are not so fresh. Or some leaves will fall off naturally.
At first, the supermarket did not mind that aunts would take the bad leaves away.
However, this kind of behavior is more and more intense, the last good Chinese cabbage was ravaged by the ladies only one vegetable!
When found, it means it's falling off, take it back to feed the animals or something, and refuse to pay for it!
As a result of such incidents, the supermarket in order to stop, there is the above announcement.
It is such a thing that some media have been elevated to the national level, so that one conclusion can only be drawn after reading:
The quality of Chinese aunts fell below the bottom line and humiliated the people of the whole country.
How did these articles work?
First of all, the incident was immediately linked to Chinese mothers far away in Canada. Did they also "chop Chinese cabbage"? Unfortunately not, but one of them stole the cherry from the supermarket.
Event review
At the PriceSmart Foods supermarket in Vancouver, a woman picked out cherries from the bag and put them in her mouth, picking them out of the bag, eating them and picking them up, when she noticed that someone was not stopping on the video.
Later, some netizens posted a response to the supermarket, feeling that "has given up the treatment of the Chinese."
Write in Chinese sign: "Please do not spit cherry kernels on the floor, thank you!" (voiceover: just don't throw the cherry kernel on the ground after everyone has eaten it.)
In the same coordinates of Canada, buying expensive supermarket eggs in boxes of cheap eggs has also been linked.
Also linked to the "cabbage case" are: the Chinese District Ma buy a watermelon to do light work, an arrow jump on the melon stand, is to knock and listen, full of trouble to come down for a long time, even if the passers-by are not moved.
As soon as the news came out, the sense of justice of the netizens from all walks of life was suddenly ignited, and the Chinese aunt in the incident was bitterly scolded:
Netizens responded:
Juanjie:! Can you blame people for discriminating against us?
Nick: picked up his parents, managed to educate his own parents.
Sky: has lived a long time, can TMD make a point of face no, disgrace!
Kewell: is a shame. The quality of the post-5060s is the lowest. It is reasonable for the Immigration Board to raise the threshold to guarantee you.
Some people are even involved in the national substandard, and 5060 is once a hooligan turned into the old rogue such a statement.
In a word, I have brought into play my strong "inductive and summing-up ability"..
So, the question is, is it really reasonable to label personal behavior and stick it to the whole ethnic group through some hassle?
With such a large population base, even if only 1% of the "black sheep" is enough to commit all the immoral things, do we have to label everything as "Chinese" or "Chinese"?
Why was it that, in the Paris family incident in France, it was clearly someone else who had cut in line, and the Chinese people who had lined up well came forward to stop the "trouble", but they were "invited" by the security guards to go out?
And "low-quality Chinese", "disorderly", "jump-in" the "label" can not get rid of the relationship.
There is a mix of good and bad in every ethnic group, whites greedy for small and cheap, in front of the woolworth,Coles self-checkout machine in the tomato as a carrot pricing less? myki not brush?
"tagging" is certainly eye-catching, but what are the practical consequences?
Is the good man innocent lie down gun, the bad man fish eye mixed bead.
As soon as the incident of "pickling Chinese cabbage" came out, many media immediately reached a moral commanding height, and all kinds of appeals to Chinese people to strictly regulate their own words and deeds.
The slogan is not wrong, the problem is that China's population of 1.3 billion people, it is impossible to completely eliminate the black sheep, and "labeled" bad habits will never change, can always give racists a blind bibi material.
At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the bad habit of "picking up cheap" is determined to change.
But it is also a bad habit, the consequences of "pickling cabbage leaves" and "label" compared to the impact, I am afraid that is small, it is not worth mentioning at all!
A year ago, for example, the Chinese aunt sold her own food in the New Zealand food market, but was mistaken for selling stolen food, not only making headlines in Chinese media, but also being attacked by netizens.
The reason is that she has a Chinese face and can't speak English. Finally, the old man tried to clarify for herself, and everyone found that there was a big "Wulong".
Editor's conclusion
In fact, Chinese make a lot of contributions overseas and have a lot of positive images. For example,
"Chinese aunt" is definitely not synonymous with low quality..
To generalize, it is easy to kill one piece with a stick and injure innocent people.
On the one hand, we are strongly opposed to "racial discrimination," on the other hand, we are crazy about "labeling," and we can easily label "one generation" and "one ethnic group." this paradoxical logic. Isn't it better to change it than "braised cabbage"?