Chinese Women in Kimono Scorned in Wuhan

A sad story from Wuhan, China, where two Chinese women (a mother-daughter pair) visited the Wuhan University campus to view the cherry blossoms. They had dressed in kimono, clothing traditionally worn by Japanese women. Unfortunately for them their cultural openness was not shared by some of the youth at the university, as a mob of young people angrily drove the pair away.

In any other country you'd get the "a few bad apples" line, explaining that not everyone in the country shares their intolerance. But according to Chinasmack, that doesn't look to be the case here. An internet poll show that a disturbing number of Chinese people think this kind of scorn was an appropriate response. Note that this is no small sample size either.

Mother-daughter wearing kimonos taking pictures at Wuhan University were driving away by city residents, what do you think?

1. We cannot forget the eight years of hardships during the War of Resistance, wearing kimonos to admire the sakura cherry blossoms is an injustice to the martyrs who died resisting the Japanese.  46,649 votes (47.66%)
2. History of course must be remembered well, but sakura cherry blossoms and kimonos have become a victim of the war.  19,078 votes (19.5%)
   
3. The women admiring kimonos can adopt other ways to satisfy their own curiosity, and do not need to incur the public’s wrath in broad daylight. 19,528 votes (19.96%)
4. Why does something like this happen every year, why is there this kind of news every year? Truly speechless… 12,629 (12.91%)

Comments

[John Maszka]

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[Andy]

Never under-estimate the Chinese loathing for the Japanese.

If Germany had repeatedly used chemical weapons against the USA or the UK, and raped and butchered millions of civilians, then I am sure that we too would not be so quick to forgive either.

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If Germany had repeatedly used chemical weapons against the USA or the UK, and raped and butchered millions of civilians, then I am sure that we too would not be so quick to forgive either.