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“Love China”-Patriotic Activity Among Chinese Through Web
April 16, 2008 | Tagged Chinese, Love China, MSn, Patriotic, Web | 1 Comment
By Jojo
Chinese People around the world are expressing their love to China and their support to Beijing Olympics through MSN.
From the morning of April 16th, a message has been sent to one another through MSN, it appeals all Chinese to add a red heart +CHINA, in front of their names on MSN. Till afternoon, there are tens of thousands of red hearts on MSN. Not only those who are from mainland China, but also Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia and other parts of the world.
This activity took place for supporting Beijing Olympics after some Western Power said to boycott Beijing Olympics because of China’s human right issue on Tibet unrest. Along with this activity, there’s another activity organized in Beijing which is to boycott French Super Market Carrefour on May 1st. People say this is the respond to them who boycott Beijing, boycott China.
It reminds me of 1999 when China’s embassy was bombed in Yugoslavia, people throw their anger by protesting in front of US embassy in Beijing. They threw rocks, drew target on their T-shirts.
But Internet changed things more efficiently, just overnight, you could see tens of thousands of people joined. Chinese’s patriotic easily expressed with high technology. Articles on Chinese Nationalism non-stop appeared on Western Media, such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal…with the names of “Chinese Nationalism Fuels Tibet Crackdown.” “The roots of Chinese Nationalism”.
If without boycott Beijing Olympics, if without some distortion on Tibet unrest, if without Internet… many Chinese don’t feel that they actually love their country like this crazy.
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Hi Jojo, thanks for sharing.
To me, it’s about personal expression of sentiments, to express to friends and family that moment of instincts, and their identities in different social circles. I remember not long ago, I also saw a bunch of my friends putting “i’m” on their nicknames in support of some of the global charity organizations. I agree that the Internet is really serving an efficient purpose of allowing users to tell the world how they are feeling at every instance.