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[billybrobby]

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Check out this article. I'm too lazy to translate it all and some parts I just can't, but here's what I got:

A big impact is being made by a short video of a young Chinese female being humiliated by demonstrators in China (where anti-Japanese demonstrations are increasing day by day) because she was driving a Japanese car.

[...]


The video begins with hundreds of angry Chinese protesters surrounding a white Japanese car. Already eggs have been smashed on the windsheild, and scratches and damage can be seen on various parts of the car. The young woman inside the car is screaming. The Chinese people [...]. The red-faced driver inside the car wipes her tears away.

The Chinese protestors however are unconcerned and continue to kick the car. One young woman can be seen laughing.

As the video became public on the 18th, the netizens of the hanryulove cafe (http://cafe.daum.net/hanryulove) had divided opinions. Some said the car should never have been at the protest site. Others said that no matter how much one hates Japan, there is a problem with inflicting violence on the driver of car, especially considering they're all of the same race. [i'm kinda guessing on this part]

"Doesn't she read the news?" one netizen asked [...]

Another netizen: "No matter what you shouldn't do that kind of thing to something from the same country. If you want to strike fear in Japan, isn't it enough to just protest?"

Another one: "Protests should be peaceful. That wasn't a protest, it wasn't patriotism, it was just a mob"

[shakuhachi]

Thats terrible. I heard some Japanese students got beaten up as well.

[rapier]

Theres nothing more intimidating than being surrounded by a mob while in your car.
However, In Africa you know they'd happilly kill you, so you have flame throwers built into the sides- and either turn back if you see a mob ahead, or hit the accelerator if they are rushing up on you. If you hit one, don't stop.

[trevorcollins]

[khyber]

i sometimes think it'd be a good idea to get oout a piece of clothe, cover my eyes, rev the gas, yell out warnings, and slowly srt moving. Then just pin it. If people are retaaahded enough to stay in my way b(because of the KIND of CAR i have?Q@$# ^J) they deserve to get run over.

What's up with these asian countries and nationalism? they need to hit the bong or something and chill out!

[itaewonguy]

its just ignorance!
all nations do it..
I remember when England played Germany the worldcup
and when England lost the English went around smashing all the german cars!!

still there was reason to hit that car with a chinese girl driving it..
thats her car for god sake!! she is not japanese and she did not write the history books! so those people who are detroying her car should PAY for it! thats BS MAN!! the poor girl in the car..

[rapier]

Is it just me, or are Asian nations rapidly becoming more nationalistic?

I was in cambodia a couple years back when an offhand comment referring to a member of the Cambodian royal family on a Thai soap opera inflamed the Cambodians so much that a mob trashed the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh and closed the border. Over a silly comment on a tvshow..

[khyber]

rap....
I wonder if this is a side effect of capitalism. In asian markets the competition is SO much more fierce than among western powers that creating a deep rift between "them and us" may be seen as a survival mechanism.

or something to that effect...

[namsanboy]

Some dumbass threatens to stab himself and there are three cops trying to hold him back, but then a person is under an all-out assault and there's not a cop in sight.

[gmat]

[Sooke]

I agree, Asian countries are becoming more nationalistic.

Oops. My oven timer went off. I think my freedom fries are ready.

[mithridates]

I was wondering this morning what I would do if I were a Japanese person working at the embassy. I wonder if I would have the courage to walk out into the mob (making sure I was being filmed) to get beat up so that people would know that they are a mob and not just demonstrators with peaceful intentions. 'Japanese ambassador gets beaten by angry mob' would be quite the embarassing headline for China.

[Gwangjuboy]

[Konundrum]

Wasn't there news in the late 70's and 80's when all the domestic car plants were being shut down in Michigan that foreign cars in Detroit and other midwestern towns were being vandalized because they were foreign?

I'm not comparing...just asking...

[namsanboy]