Thread: Hello from Dan Chang in China

This has elevated from a junk thread into a race debate.

As a Chinese immigrant myself, I used to get upset when we are stereotyped by others.
Then I realised when I think of a certain type of negative behaviour, my mind will subconsciously link this behaviour with a certain race.

- Exporting poor quality steel and poisonous milk
- Bargaining and tax invasion
- High crime rate, high prison population and living on benefits
- Colonising/taking over countries and continents, then acting to be PC

When you see each of the above, does a certain race pop into your mind? Certainly does for me, I do not want to admit it, but I cannot deny it.

We can all be bad people regardless of our colour, just bad in different but typical ways. This is where stereotype came from.

I won't feel offended if someone says: "Chinese manufacturers have a higher chance of selling poor quality products based on my experience."
I will feel offended if someone says: "Chinese are incapable and dishonest."

Expressing your own experience is fine. Putting down an entire race is not.

Now back to the thread, someone already mentioned about the great internet fire wall of China. I have just asked my friends back in China to try to access this forum and they got blocked. Go figure.