Apr 14, 2008
Some Chinese Boycott Carrefour
This Chinese girl protests what she perceives as French support for Tibet, by boycotting French supermarket chain, Carrefour. See video below.
More from WSJ:
BEIJING — Some Chinese citizens, angry over foreign criticism of their country’s policies in Tibet, are calling for boycotts of at least two European retailers for purportedly supporting the Dalai Lama, the latest sign of growing tension between China and the West ahead of the Olympics.
Internet users in China — it is unclear how many — have been using instant-messaging services, blogs and bulletin boards to spread a call for Chinese consumers at home and abroad to boycott French supermarket operator Carrefour SA and cosmetics retailer the Body Shop, owned by L’Oréal SA.
UPDATE: From Wang Xiaofeng via danwei:
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????????????????????The best boycott is to make yourself really awesome (??); if you’re not cool, other people will pick on you. If you boycott someone when they pick on you, you’re just pretending to be be great. If you like it, maybe you should go to North Korea, where they only have north Korean and Chinese goods. ??Using your purchasing habits to demonstrate whether or not you are patriotic, this is really “universal values” with Chinese characteristics.
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If there is anything I am going to boycott, it’s all these stupid idiots [arranging boycotts].
So that’s why the supermarket was so pleasantly empty today. Keep it up guys!
GO, China, GO! Boycott those fuckers!
I, for one, dumped my Acqua Di Gio and Chanel Allure for RL.
I will boycott all the product of China but it’s not difficult, they’re so bad quality!!!
Yup, and I hope that Carrefour would do retrenchment on the employees….
hah….
Carrefour is crying while Wal-mart have a big smile back.
Yeah, i’m sure the Huangpu river will be filled with the YSL handbags that patriotic Shanghai xiaojies are now throwing away in a sign of solidarity with that Jin Jing girl.
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I partly agree with you. However “Being great” is not something you can approach overnight. It’s something that Chinese all over the world have been fighting generations by generations. Being nice and kind is not always being given a way to go as reward and charity.
It’s wise to boycott “stupid idiots”. But more importantly, being wise enough to avoid being a “stupid idiot”.
Fuck the french wanker !
So follow your logic, when the Japanese invade China you don’t resist. Stay as slave until you become awesome (???? I do doubt when you can become awesome without any passion or courage. People tear your flags and put you as thongs and goons. Fuck off your awesome!
@Cheng
That’s not my logic.
It’s Wang Xiaofeng’s logic.
But I tend to agree with him, as his argument is somewhat more eloquent than yours.