dude takes everything personal, thats why hes been in som any figths. oh no sorry, they attacked him

@dazzer
really low and really lame. i guess i am onto something otherwise you would take it so personally that i take things personally.
do you really have to always agree with everything chinese so that you can deflect your guilt, or justification, that you live in a hatemongering fearmongering,aggressive, militaristic,national socialist state.

have some balls for ones just say you are ok with it. after accepting that. you can start to change things. but nah it.s so much better being a coward and clise ones eyes. right?

it sparkled quite an outcry on blogs about the two foreigners. it went to strong racial words and such, which even by the ones always defending everything chinese would still, and by definition be xenophobic.

happy new year.

I think the articles that have been spreading on social media websites do carry an element of xenophobia. Yes, irresponsible behavior from the two men, but how many kids have bought similar toy guns and done the same thing? I'm not sure, because it's generally not reported in the media, but I'm sure many have. It's fine that people were worried and it's good to see the police dealt with it in a responsible way but I can't see why it was reported by the media. Whoever wrote it should have been aware of the significance a meaningless story would take on once published. That day, I saw re-posts from sina weibo with extra pictures of dead gulls (presumably dying of natural causes or landing on electric wires and unconnected to teh foreigners).

Many foreigners re-posted the story with or without the dead gulls. Often the post was apologetic: 'we're not all evil', 'I'll hunt them down' etc.

I can't see how this doesn't send a message of xenophobia. Shouldn't we be condemning the articles as trashy and the overreaction to a poor joke as either a misjudgement or prejudice?

I know how many american haters are on this site but seppo and saffie are not american names. Sorry to ruin your day.

I personally know the two. They obtained the toy gun from a vendor after they accidentally broke it (or it was a set-up). Then decided to go mess around with it, y'know, boys.

They did not shoot anyone or anything and it's almost criminal that some people try to link it with a picture of dead birds which is very obviously not on Cuihu tiles.

Lots of anger against Chinese here obviously. Just so I understand: are you actually defending shooting the gulls?

Dudeson, we all know that xenophobia is alive and well in China. We are not blind.

I don't get it: toy gun, no shots fired, no birds shot, police didn't arrest anyone, stupid prank, unrelated pictures of dead birds, so the troll asks

"are you actually defending shooting the gulls?"

No gulls were shot, nothing to defend but the troll just goes on and on...

Geezer, I am not a troll. I just did not understand the issue.

@Jean,
No nobody here is promoting or defending shooting gulls. The issue is that there was no shooting gulls in the first place.

Even though knowing that nothing happened and those foreigners just monkey-ed around before the year of the monkey, they became a target for an online hate-rain from some chinese [probably national online gatekeepers] bloggers. Some Chinese defended it as jackassery, which I agree on. Since there is much worse [or at least similar] jackassery going on from our Chinese 朋友's.

But in general the evil of the foreigner prevailed. Some even felt entitled to speak out their hate in the name of the bird. I found that really entertaining.

And that for me is xenophobia.

I want to ask, you.
Not hating China does that mean, that you have to UNCONDITIONALLY LOVE and accept even the worst part of this culture?

Why is there no middle ground in only this place China?

And why are the only ones defending China down to the last word, foreigners?

My Chinese friends are all in agreement, my wife, my inlaws, the online [not filtered] Chinese news. People at the shops markets, drivers, etc. All agree that there is so much terrible stuff going on in China, but only here on the gokunming threads all is a cloud of awesomeness.

I love my share of China but as I said, I don't eat all the BS, like harmonious society, safe place to live, great business opportunity, saving lots of money.

In my opinion and my experience it's a gigantic mound of BS.

If you need to tell yourself that it's like that, then maybe you [plural- for the travel advisors] needs to get a ticket out, cos that is not normal. Also in history that would be the first time that a socialist-capitalist country became the utopian wonderland.