Looks like everyones Friday night end of the week rage venting dreams have come true!

No ones apologising nnoble, not sure why you are claiming they are. I also said Gaoxing was "chasing tail", which he was/is by his own admission. At no point did I accuse him of rape.

Dazzer, the important point I believe is the attempt. Thank god he wasn't successful, but on another day he might have been. This bad behaviour reflects badly on lao wai in China because we are stereotyped into one group by many Chinese. Again, unfortunate, but true.

Harriis, who castigates only foreigners? We can (and by the looks of the responses here) castigate anyone we want. No one stated we were castigating only foreigners, I came the closest by saying that when foreigners did something bad, it unfortunately is bad for all of us as the responses to the video show we are all one big group according to many Chinese. As such we should discourage any behaviour of that type in the extreme to other foreigners... to make living in China as easy as possible for us as lao wai. I will castigate anyone however that attempts rape, no matter colour/creed/religion or hairstyle.

Thanks roberto's friend, I think my girlfriends family are slowly understanding, but takes time to bring down years of misunderstanding/ignorance/prejudice. The interesting thing is my girlfriend says here family are very forward thinking and not conservative! There must be some seriously bad impressions out there of foreigners...

Rik, I think we agree in principle on everything except how to change the opinions of stereotyping Chinese people who group lao wai into one group. I think using a collective approach would work best in China (hence my desire to see fellow lao wai pour scorn on the guys actions hopefully making future lao wai visitors to China with a similar attitude think twice), if you believe another way will work, that is your choice. The other thing - please stop misquoting me. Twice you have said "And if they are, you should put them in their place, not apologize or call for harsher punishments for non Chinese." I did not apologize or call for harsher punishments for non Chinese. Putting words in my mouth makes you look silly as it spawns comments on statements that were never made (nnoble's) and makes the argument more extreme and hence opinion more polarised.

Sorry Danmairen if I offended you. My intention is not to group all foreigners together and say we shouldn't do that. My intention is to highlight to the occasional foreigner who thinks this way that, as a foreigner community in an Asian country, we do not condone sexually aggressive behaviour and that such acts have a tendency to reflect badly on all of us.

Rik, you seem to still be in denial about the reality of how we are viewed in China. For instance, growing up my girlfriend was taught that basically every foreigner comes from America. She is 24 yet that built in idea still comes back to haunt her all the time. She comes from a small rural town that hardly every sees foreigners. It shows you that, until recently, Chinese culture has only started accepting the multitude of different people in the world.

In the same context, I have been quizzed by her family and other people if my intentions with her are genuine. Whether I will sell her or not. Whether I am just using her for sex (from her dad). Where I think our relationship is going because they are scared to have a foreigners thinking in the family. This is xenophobia through ignorance, which I battle through and change with every conversation I have with them. But it highlights exactly how we are viewed here. I acknowledge the Xenophobia exists and try to change it, just as you do.

I will quote you when you say "And most Chinese nationals get that, and therefore won't be prejudiced against you because of some drunk rapist in Beijing." Did you do a poll? Wow, that was fast. After viewing this video my girlfriend got worried again (we have been together for over a year). After calming her down I asked her why she was upset - it was because the video reinforced a prejudice which she was taught by her culture. She has also received calls from her sister and mum who have seen the video and started worrying again. The responses to the video as outlined by Danmairen show that clearly a lot of Chinese nationals are prejudiced against foreigners.

"Don't promote that thinking by saying "Oh, but I'm a good laowai, those are the bad laowai"."

The intention is to do the opposite. If we as foreigners react with shock, dismay and anger at another foreigner who has wronged a Chinese citizen, we stand in unison with the Chinese who have the same reaction. When angry Chinese people see many of us standing next to them, they realise that we are individuals that are closer to them and share the same values as them. They won't therefore lump us all together with the bad ass in the video. If we do nothing and try to keep news under the radar, how do you think we look to Chinese who are angry about this? Please answer this question.

"If xenophobia is a problem, the thread and thread title are supporting xenophobia. it is very simple." & "So go ahead and replace the word laowai in what you wrote with "black" or "jew", and see how disgusting, and self hating it is."

Please explain how the thread title and first comment "support Xenophobia". It shows that I despise sexual violence and are shocked at some foreigners attitude towards Chinese. This shows solidarity with Chinese who think the same (probably 99% of them). If you think the title supports Xenophobia, you must also think headlines of papers do the same thing. e.g. www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2012-05/09/content_15251340.htm (US soldiers are all murdering rapists!), www.telegraph.co.uk/[...] (asians must be all horrible!), www.nytimes.com/[...] (never trust NY city cops!). The Daily Mail: www.dailymail.co.uk/[...] Do you think the use of the words "British man" are offensive?

"ps. there was lots of anti-foreigner sentiment before the period of western imperialism in China." There was and it was xenophobic. Unfortunately from the 1800's to WWII foreign powers made their fears true. And in the last 70 years we have in many cases treated Asians with less than the respect they deserve. I aren't responsible for these actions but I do want Asians to know that I don't support such aggression and manipulation.

Clearly you and your group get it Danmairen.

But we know of 1 guy that does not. Just because you would never act this way does not mean that everyone thinks the same as you. The video clearly evidences this. This is a very strange psychological pattern that many people have "I think like this and so do the people I hang around with, therefore EVERYONE thinks like this" despite evidence to the contrary.

Or are you in denial that there is view held by a number of westerners that Asia is a good destination for exploitive sex? I recommend a visit to Pattaya in Thailand if you harbour such delusions.

Oh yeah - the video is currently featuring on youku's homepage...