Most Recent Anti-Foreigner Movement

Has this thing got anything to do with the British guy who got caught on camera molesting a girl on the streets of Beijing? And some white ballet dancer fighting with a train passenger because he refused to take his feet off the front seat. These were recent Weibo videos that are causing anti foreigner sentiment here in China. I've not seen them, but there is no excuse for bad behavior. Reply to this

When I was in China last year for just one day, I found the Chinese particularly friendly towards me as a foreigner. There seemed to be a real effort made to attract tourists, in my opinion. It was so much more inviting, than it was the first time I was in China around 13 years ago.

I wasnt there this time long enough to see anything against illegal workers. Though, I think that thing about illegal workers has been there for a long time. Our friend was in China to do some work, in the 80s. He decided to go ahead and get the work done, even though his work papers were not yet processed. He was put in prison, the Austrian consulate(he is Austrian) got him out, and the Chinese police escorted him to the plane, and he has not been allowed back in China ever since.

Would you post the link to the blog here, when your husband is finished writing it. I want to read it. I didnt think the cracking down on illegal workers would be done in public for all to see and blog about. Seems like they are making it into a bit of a show.

...These were recent Weibo videos...

Seems like some are actually trying to catch white or maybe all foreigners doing annoying things on camera, and then making a big scene about those 'bad white people', or 'those bad foreiengers'... Reply to this

It has indirectly spread to Hangzhou. I have been attending events sponsored by Hangzhou Green Drinks (HZGD), an organization in over 800 cities worldwide.

Email from HZGD:
"A quite disturbing issue for HZGD.


Finally, and this is the disturbing and strange event we were referring to above, some words about Hangzhou Expat's on-going disgraceful, anti-community activities.

Unfortunately, after trying to appease their erratic,unprofessional and inappropriate attempts to control what we write in our HZGD emails and put on our online documents for the past few months, as well as them trying to control at which venues we do or don't hold our events, Hangzhou Expat has started to delete our HZGD event notice posts as soon as they are posted all without any rational justification.

As you would likely know, Hangzhou Green Drinks is an independent, non-profit community group run by volunteers in their own free time. Our speakers are also community-minded volunteers and they receive no payments, nor do we pay fees to the venues that host our events. We are, we think, the epitomy of a community group.

The biased, mercenary and baseless actions of Hangzhou Expat's administrators outlined above show that they have no understanding of community-mindedness whatsoever.

Hence forth we will be ceasing to use Hangzhou Expat as a site for disseminating information about our events, and as a site for discussing green issues and connecting with like-minded people. Please see our other online sites for event details and updates, and to discuss green issues and make social/business connections.

We can only suggest you avoid Hangzhou Expat and their anti-community policies and try to use other Hangzhou Forum sites, information directories, classifieds and event listings.

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I will stand behind and NOT SUPPORT any anti-community policy or movement moving across China.
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We just saw a CNN news article on this, saying a lot of foreigners (who are there working legally) are very, very worried that they won't be allowed back in if they leave the country for a holiday.

The CNN reporter (Stan Grant - the guy who is always, and we mean always, getting into scuffles with party officials!) was interviewing Chinese people too who were saying 'let's get rid of all these foreigners' and other such statements. In response to the attack on the Russian guy who sexually assaulted the women, a couple of guys said something like 'yes, we would have beat him to death'.

All countries use the 'enemy outside' to distract, so reports say this crackdown will last 100 days and foreigners have reported being stopped and harassed by the police even though they are there legally. Instead of focussing on illegal immigration this seems to just be targeted at any foreigner?
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I'm sorry but I have only ever felt welcomed in this country. I am half Asian, an have spent half my life in Asia and half in the West. I tell you honestly, I experienced alot of racism in the West, and very little in China, Japan, and Singapore. Reply to this

I guess being half Asian I don't get the full on experience. Traveling around China with Stel T and my fully Caucasian brother I was kind of jealous that they were always approached like movie stars with people just wanting to shake their hands or have pictures taken with them. These recent events will blow over. I just hope that they don't happen too frequently as they do lead to generalizations that bundle all foreigners as barbarians when in truth, every society has a few bad apples.
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I know you guys are heading back soon and I am sure you will carry with you fond memories of this diverse nation. It wasn't so long ago that your nation segregated people based on the colour of their skin. Give China time. This is a sensitive period of rapid growth and opening up. These sort of incidents happen in every country in one way or another. Reply to this