I'm Chinese and this is my first post here. I've been pretty shocked lately by some of the Indians on the internet. I heard that China's president Hu Jintao was visiting India this week, so I went to a couple of popular Indian news websites (Rediff.com; ibnlive.com) to gauge the common Indian attitude toward China and the Chinese people. Frankly, it's difficult for me as a Chinese to understand the venomous hostility that these comments possess. I can guarantee that the Chinese have no such reciprocal feelings to the Indians, and that is especially why I am stung by these attacks.
Out of 100 comments, only 1 or 2 were friendly to China and the Chinese, and I think they were Chinese too. Indians should realize that English is an international language and there are 200 million internet users in China, many of whom can read English (though not speak).
Here's a sample of the nearly unanimous comments Indian posters wrote on Rediff's message boards (http://mboard.rediff.com/board/board...china&page=1):
kailash: "china is old devil.once again indian emotions will get kicked."
K: "The Chinese are the most selfish and racist people ever. They are greedy and have a massive superiority complex. They also believe in having a better culture and tradition and pretty much claim everything as their invention. They are a race who have perfected Reverse Engineering. Thats the only credit I give the Parasites, Trust never."
infidel: "The Chinese as a people and as a nation have a reputation of being cunning and back-stabbing. No nation trusts China completely and we will be the biggest fools if we do even after being on the wrong side of their gun for so many years."
VSingh: "The chinese are not to be trusted ever and that should be firmly engrained in the minds of every indian."
prakash: "i can say we should not believe / trust china. They are very self centered and do and change their words once their work is over. they change their stand acording to their requirments and change words what they have commited or communicate earlier. "
Atul Sabnis: "Chineses are Expert Back Stabbers, we have experienced this once & to face the same again would be too foolish for us. "
Sumedh: "We can't trust China. Chinese are communists and communists are greedy for land. "
Vishnu Sharma: "There will be NO compromise with these "Untermenschen" "Chinese Subhumans""
Swapan: "Trusting China is like trusting a Hyena. A hyena tirelessly looks out for the lethal strike, so does China - even when they do not deserve"
Lily Lin: "I am a chinese girl, i am so surprise that you indian hate chinese so much. In most of chinese mind, india is a beautiful and friendly country, although there was a war between our two country. there are many indian students is studying in my university, and we chinese people always be friendly to them , do our best to help them. "
Hari: "the only thing straight about the chinese is their hair"
GR: "They are the cunniest people on earth. they will do anything to have a gain,.... human rights, moral value, ethics are not in their books."
Out of 100 comments, only 1 or 2 were friendly to China and the Chinese, and I think they were Chinese too. Indians should realize that English is an international language and there are 200 million internet users in China, many of whom can read English (though not speak).
Here's a sample of the nearly unanimous comments Indian posters wrote on Rediff's message boards (http://mboard.rediff.com/board/board...china&page=1):
kailash: "china is old devil.once again indian emotions will get kicked."
K: "The Chinese are the most selfish and racist people ever. They are greedy and have a massive superiority complex. They also believe in having a better culture and tradition and pretty much claim everything as their invention. They are a race who have perfected Reverse Engineering. Thats the only credit I give the Parasites, Trust never."
infidel: "The Chinese as a people and as a nation have a reputation of being cunning and back-stabbing. No nation trusts China completely and we will be the biggest fools if we do even after being on the wrong side of their gun for so many years."
VSingh: "The chinese are not to be trusted ever and that should be firmly engrained in the minds of every indian."
prakash: "i can say we should not believe / trust china. They are very self centered and do and change their words once their work is over. they change their stand acording to their requirments and change words what they have commited or communicate earlier. "
Atul Sabnis: "Chineses are Expert Back Stabbers, we have experienced this once & to face the same again would be too foolish for us. "
Sumedh: "We can't trust China. Chinese are communists and communists are greedy for land. "
Vishnu Sharma: "There will be NO compromise with these "Untermenschen" "Chinese Subhumans""
Swapan: "Trusting China is like trusting a Hyena. A hyena tirelessly looks out for the lethal strike, so does China - even when they do not deserve"
Lily Lin: "I am a chinese girl, i am so surprise that you indian hate chinese so much. In most of chinese mind, india is a beautiful and friendly country, although there was a war between our two country. there are many indian students is studying in my university, and we chinese people always be friendly to them , do our best to help them. "
Hari: "the only thing straight about the chinese is their hair"
GR: "They are the cunniest people on earth. they will do anything to have a gain,.... human rights, moral value, ethics are not in their books."
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