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Re:Chinese boy defaces ancient Egyptian sculpture, prompts o... by ceol on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @12:21AM (#5778031)
Look at the comments on this random NBC News article. Then imagine them on every single article[0] about this story. The reddit thread[1] reached 3500 comments, and the top comments are all in the same vein: cries for punishment, stories about how awful Chinese tourists are, stories about how awful Chinese people in general are, etc.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1f2l3x/a_chinese_kid_ca...

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Re:Chinese boy defaces ancient Egyptian sculpture, prompts o... by bourne on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @12:40AM (#5778104)
Well, then these types of comments are coming from both the East and the West, and it would be unfair to say that the comments from the West stem from a desire to hate a "faceless other" while the ones from the East are more legitimate somehow. The overboard comments from both sides are uncalled for.
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Re:Chinese boy defaces ancient Egyptian sculpture, prompts o... by ceol on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @12:47AM (#5778135)
Yes, you're right. I do think comments from both cultures are reprehensible, but the ones from other Chinese people do not seem to carry the same prejudice — at least from the translations I've read. You don't, for example, have other Chinese people calling the 15 year old boy "Ding Dong," as one of the NBC News commenters did.
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