Chinese Passengers Beat Unruly Foreigner On Guangzhou Metro

by Fauna on Wednesday, December 22, 2010388comments

From Tudou:

Laowai [foreigner] loudly swears and gives middle finger on Guangzhou Metro, leading to passengers surrounding and beating him

Recently, a foreigner riding on the Guangzhou Metro was stopped by security inspection personnel for having a knife in his luggage. Afterward, this laowai boarded the subway and proceeded to vent his fury on the passengers, giving everyone middle finger and loudly swearing in a drunken rage. Eventually, losing their patience, the passengers swarmed him and began beating him…

A copy on YouTube:

The video is of a news report featuring mobile phone footage of the incident taken by a passenger. The footage shown first is of some Chinese men beating on the foreigner while some bystanders and a subway worker yell for them to stop. The incident occurred on Guangzhou’s Line 5 Metro, with the foreigner having apparently been uncivil and rude to passengers upon boarding the subway. A young Chinese man is interviewed who explains that the foreigner had a knife confiscated by security inspection personnel at the metro station’s security checkpoint. A passenger interviewed over telephone complains about the subway personnel taking away all of the Chinese passengers involved in the fight while leaving the “crazy foreigner” in the subway.

Minutes later, as the subway approached the Ouzhuang station, the “arrogant foreigner” got in trouble again, provoking another man with the middle finger and swearing at him. The footage then shows the foreigner pointing at other passengers saying they are “whores”. Then, a woman surnamed Xie who understands English intervenes but the foreigner knocks her mobile phone out of her hands, leading to some male passengers surrounding and attacking him. When the subway reached the next stop, Taojin station, the foreigner took his luggage and disembarked.

The young Chinese man interviewed earlier says that someone who was next to him smelled alcohol on him, so maybe he was drunk. Miss Xie wonders on a telephone interview how “bloody” it could have been knowing that the foreigner was drunk and had a knife with his luggage. Finally, the police said the matter was still being handled and could not disclose anything to the public.

Comments from Tudou:

白色崇拜:

And those subway workers, are foreigners your masters? Taking away the Chinese people, you guys are simply Chinese traitors.

ll2247174:

Well beaten.

多霉体:

China is hospitable, warm and welcoming to laowai, but when encountering this kind of person, there’s no need [to be so warm and hospitable].

There will be people who will respond: He drank alcohol, was probably drunk!

Drank alcohol? If drinking makes him like this, then why drink? Knowing one’s drunken behavior is bad but still drinking? This is called intentionally doing something one knows to be wrong. He deserved it~

箱底霸主:

Hurry and apologize to the foreign master!!!! Pay compensation, cede territory, give them women, anything!

白色崇拜:

I don’t think the beating was enough, not until he’s unable to stand up. TMD, us Chinese are truly too easily bullied.

万物生生万物:

[I] truly miss Grandpa Mao.

卡卡卡卡卡番茄:

I only know that America protects its own citizens. Whoever dares to to do what happened in the video in America’s subways, the ones arrested will definitely be the foreigners.

绿色木偶人:

The Chinese on the subway were rational [had cause], if someone doesn’t infringe on me, I won’t infringe on them [if you don't bother me, I wont' bother you]! The moment the laowai becomes physical, we can beat him until he cannot resist anymore! But China’s government?!! China’s police?!! What does “currently being handled/dealt with” mean???? [It means] not going to be handled/dealt with!!

执迷*不悟:

Such unity, truly moving. [I] applaud.

kcak:

Foreigners in China being so arrogant is a result of the ZF! It can be proven just by looking at how the subway personnel handled this situation! Foreigners can actually drink and then bring knives into the metro!!! The ZF is truly SB!

39409950:

Guangzhou Metro’s managers are too cowardly. If that laowai had been in Harbin, he would’ve long ago been beaten to death.

影メ青龙:

Gei li!

天生你才必无用:

Laowai in China are always one level above [Chinese], while China’s rabble are not even lackeys/flunkeys. A detail in the video, saying that the metro workers took away the Chinese passengers yet did nothing with the laowai, is there still any justice? Yiwu [a Chinese city well-known for trade and sourcing] here is the same. There are over 10,000 foreigners who live here long-term/permanently, and even black people are treated like masters. There are a lot who play around with the women working in foreign trade, and some are very arrogant, but when they break the law, it is very rarely dealt with! As long as you are a foreigner, the GCD [共产党, gong chan dang, the Communist Party] treats you like their ancestors! The GCD is just like the late Qing Dynasty!

Kim Jong-il Dead, Chinese Netizen Reactions

by Fauna on Tuesday, December 20, 201183comments

While Chinese online news portals closed their reports and articles about former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s death to commenting by Chinese netizens, users on Chinese social networks like China’s most popular Twitter-like microblogging service Sina Weibo actively forwarded and commented on the news…

From Sina Weibo:

@新浪视频: On the scene photograph of North Koreans sobbing upon hearing of Kim Jong-il’s death. Facing North Korean Central News Television cameras, they thanked Kim Jong-il for the happy life he has brought them, and express extreme grief and disbelief at the leader’s sudden passing. They could not hide their sadness, beating their chests and stamping their feet wailing, overwhelmed with sorrow.

The above microblog post and attached video has been forwarded/reposted (“re-tweeted”) over 23.5k times so far and currently has over 5,600 comments.

Comments from Sina Weibo:

商道共赢：

When the great Chairman Mao passed away, we also cried uncontrollably, thinking the sky had fallen. Fact is that the sky didn’t fall…

马超2011微博：

Either [they] were deceived or it is out of fear.

DL_Kevin:

Too bad his son wasn’t blown up. 

碎鑫微博：

Seeing the reactions of the North Korean people, and then seeing the comments of so many [Chinese] netizens, I suddenly feel at a loss. Do we need hero worship/cult of personality? Do we need religion/conviction? …North Korea may be lacking material wealth, but it has a strong spiritual strength! Whereas us, we’re the complete opposite! While we chased after material wealth, we lost what is actually most valuable, a spiritual conviction!

DamienMacluke：

Kim Jong-il passed away. Seeing scenes of North Koreans choking on their tears is really moving!

余清峰：

A personality cult is at least better than corruption and degeneration!

太宗秀：

[They] don’t dare to not cry! If they don’t cry, they’ll all be shot dead, and those that cry too softly have to go mine coal! 

光电365地盘：

I can’t respect those media that criticize Kim Jong-il. They only dare to criticize Kim Jong-il is because they know Kim won’t deploy the military to their countries and slaughter them like Imperialist America, because he won’t use financial hegemony to cut off their financial resources, nor would he buy off other media to go criticize these media. So criticizing Kim Jong-il is the safest thing to do, because they won’t be beaten or criticized, they won’t be fired or go bankrupt. And they can be financially rewarded by Imperialist America.

吃出一條血路：

Our country has also been as SB before.

kaiakfun：

Sad, but I don’t know who I should be sad for, for ourselves, for the North Koreans, for the Kim family dynasty, or for all of the above.

谭风月：

Seeing this scene, I’m once again reminded of 1970s China.

匕手雕弓：

People should be kinder. With regards to the death of a leader of a sovereign country and friendly neighbor, at least [the comments] shouldn’t be a bunch of irresponsible nonsense! [Everyones] sensibilities have all gone to America.

1李锐:

I can completely understand the North Koreans, as this is what a great country looks like. This is what a great united people looks like. American imperialism simply cannot defeat it.

cement：

35 years ago we were also like this, the same, so familiar.

心声丶：

Like this, a country’s leader and soul is gone. I trust their tears are real.

秦彧的微博：

To the wumao: In contrast, there is a country where the bureaucracy and ruling party, from top to bottom, from the highest to the lowest official, where if their entire clan and three generations were all to suddenly explode and die, there would still be no one to cry. [Instead] The markets may run out of for flour, pork, and leek as well as vinegar [ingredients for dumplings] stock and firecracker/firework factories may also profit greatly. That legendary country is called a certain China. 

干爹_鐵拳喇叭：

People like this should die more.

我是小禹RAIN：

I hate dictatorships! Refuse brainwashing! Disgusting formalism! It is human rights and freedom that are the basis of human existence!

鱼非文：

When Chairman Mao died, our people were also like this. Now that their spiritual leader is gone, they are not far from corruption and money worship/materialism.

yaofang102：

Back then when Grandpa Mao passed away, Chinese people were also like this! In 20 years, North Koreans will think back to just how stupid/foolish they were at this point in time!

芥末敦儿：

The history of the North Korean people is of suffering. This people have always been caught between larger more powerful countries. What North Korea experiences today is not something that can be so easily explained with “dictatorship”, and North Korea has constantly been demonized!

From Sina Weibo:

@新华社快讯： North Korean Central News Agency reported on the 19th that North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il passed away on the 17th.

The above has been forwarded/reposted (“re-tweeted”) over 23.5k times so far and currently has over 5,600 comments.

Comments from Sina Weibo:

月明风清2618_6fv：

After Kim Jong-il has passed, Kim Jong-un becomes the world’s youngest dictator, and will not be far behind Gaddafi.

金错刀:

2011 has indeed been an amazing year.

坷凡：

North Korea’s loss, is a greater loss for China!

亮剑99988：

North Korea is just a lousy country! Because of how extremely ignorant the nation’s people are.

喜欢安静的赵：

Does this have even “half a mao” [any] to do with me?

周家小川：

Fatty Kim, lay your heart to rest and go, North Korea’s people from this point on will no longer have to live in suffering.

DaanHan：

Actually, the general has boarded to arks… [alluding to the movie 2012]

真相不可围：

If the dictatorship system dies, how great that would be, poor long-suffering North Koreans.

皇甫赛骞：

South Korea isn’t going to go on a 3-day holiday is it?

RokeyQye曦：

Sigh, the geo-political situation is going to change. Hope China won’t be affected. 

新闻早晚茶：

I feel sad for North Koreans. South Koreans have such good lives while the lives of North Koreans are so dismal despite them both once being one country. Now that this dictator has died, I hope the North Korean people’s bright future is also coming.

灆海天箜：

Are the North Koreans really sad or pretending to be sad? If they support their master so much, how come there are still so many people who risk death to sneak into South Korea? That Korean Central News Agency whatever is about the same as CCAV, it simply cannot reflect the people’s true thoughts/sentiments.

晓疯子_：

Finally there is a place I can see comments…

一厅白雪：

For me, this is a piece of good news. For North Koreans, this is an unknown future.

sunway2506787085：

I won’t comment on anything else but before he died, he was still working making official visits! At the very least he was continuously and genuinely working hard for his own motherland! Do you know how many government officials we still have that are like this? Didn’t so many of our government officials die from eating too much?

From Sina Weibo:

@正经大猫: Help me spread a cold joke: Kim Jong-il passed away on the 17th, and the 24th will be the 7th day after his death, and the whole world sings together: “金哥bye，金哥bye，金哥on the way~”

The above has been forwarded/reposted (“re-tweeted”) over 47k times so far and currently has over 5,000 comments.

金哥 translated means “Brother Kim”, referring to Kim Jong-il, but is pronounced in Chinese as “jin ge“. Try pronouncing it out loud. It a bad Chinese pun of “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way~”

Tienanmen SquARed

By 4Gentlemen

Tiananmen SquARed is a two part augmented reality public art project and memorial, dedicated human rights and democracy world-wide. The project includes virtual replicas of the Goddess of Democracy and Tank Man from the 1989 student uprising in Tiananmen Square. Both augmentations have been placed in Beijing at the precise GPS coordinates where the original incidents took place.

The Goddess of Democracy was a 33-foot tall statue, constructed in only four days out of foam and papier-mâché over a metal armature. Students from an art institute created the statue, placing it to face toward a huge picture of the late Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong. Tanks later flattened the statue when China’s military crushed the protest.

The Goddess of Democracy augment model in the development environment with AR test montage and reference image by Toshio Sakai-AFP, taken on May 30, 1989 in Tiananmen Square.

Tank Man was an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks the morning after the Chinese military forcibly removed protestors from in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The man achieved widespread international recognition due to the videotape and photographs taken of the incident.

The Tank Man augmentation model in the development environment with the iconic photograph, taken by Jeff Widener of the Associated Press as a reference image.

Although it has been more than twenty years since Tiananman Protest took place, the authorities  persistently use all means possible to erase the fact that the Chinese people pursued democracy in this democratic and anti-corruption movement. Today in China, young people are not aware of the courageous actions that Tank Man and the Goddess of Democracy represent. Nonetheless, history should not be forgotten.

Tank Man AR test montage.

Information and communication technologies have inspired people to express their thoughts freely. We as artists, taking advantages of the development  of mobile phone technology and smartphone applications, have revived the history of 1989 Tiananman Protest that  has tremendous implications waiting  for further examinations by our contemporaries.

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Once the audience downloads the Layar Augmented Reality Browser to their Android or iPhone, he or she could stand in Tiananmen Square and point their device’s camera towards the northern side of the plaza where the Goddess of Democracy was originally erected. The application uses geolocation software to superimpose a computer generated 3D graphic of the Goddess of Democracy at the precise GPS coordinates of the original, enabling them to see the augmentation integrated into the physical location as if it existed in the real world. Similarly, the Tank Man augmentation would be placed on Chang’an Avenue northeast of Tiananmen Square in the exact location of the original event. Both augmentations will appear in the original scale and orientation.

Launch the Tiananmen SquARed project o