The daily life of foreign students who are discriminated against abroad.

Recently, a little boy cried to the camera about his experience of being bullied on campus, which caused quite a stir. With the disclosure of more information, the plot reversed. Let's talk about the daily life of international students who are discriminated against abroad.

At that time, celebrities from all walks of life in the United States sent messages to encourage the little boy, including Chris evenson, captain of the United States, and Mark Alan Ruffalo, played by Hulk. Later, even Trump stood up.

However, with the disclosure of more information, the plot reversed. It turned out that the little boy was bullied because he had insulted his black classmates, and his family was proved to be racist.

Discrimination is not a new topic, but when it comes to individuals, you will always feel blocked.

In foreign countries, China students will feel discrimination more or less, some of which are exact discrimination, and some may be caused by some misunderstandings such as language barriers.

Looking through the news reports about overseas students in China in recent years, it is true that "discrimination" is a high-frequency word, which seems to have become a relatively common phenomenon.

Those "discriminated" daily lives

Living and studying abroad, you will more or less feel the malice of some foreigners.

For example, they will make malicious attacks because of your skin color, nationality and even your English ability.

This situation is the most common, and many international students are even attacked in a state of complete despair.

The recent American bus mail incident is a living case. The Bus Rapid Transit Company, which transported students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to Chicago, sent an advertisement e-mail, which included: "Taking this bus will not make passengers feel that they are in China."

The comments made by the bus company in the advertisement mail clearly discriminated against China people, which caused strong dissatisfaction among China students in the school.

In addition to this sensational discrimination, there are some things that often happen in the daily life of studying abroad.

According to many foreign students' memories, sometimes people who walk on the road may be insulted by passers-by inexplicably using words like "fucking China people".

Or greeting foreign students out of courtesy, but they are often ignored.

Or if you drive slowly, you will be yelled at by foreigners: "Go back to China".

(American old lady insults China guy at McDonald's)

Compared with this explicit discrimination, some implicit discrimination is more difficult to prevent.

(an act of discriminating against Asians' small eyes)

For example, being assigned to a white group to do group homework, it seems that people don't take you to play. Although there is no direct words or actions in this situation, it does make people feel "discriminated".

The discrimination against Asian students in the enrollment process of Harvard University that broke out before is also relatively imperceptible to us.

Being discriminated against by foreigners may make you feel angry and dissatisfied, but it is even harder if even China people discriminate against themselves.

According to some friends studying in the United States, many China students who grew up in the United States will also discriminate against the new arrivals from China.

Are we really discriminated against?

When walking in the street and being inexplicably said, "China bastard", of course we will feel angry and should refute it.

However, we don't need to define ourselves as "discriminated against" because of the behavior of a very small number of foreigners. Because this kind of personal abuse may not rise to the "correct values" recognized by this society.

Compared with the eastern society, the concept of racial discrimination may be more widely and deeply understood in the west. In a country like the United States, it has indeed experienced a vigorous anti-discrimination movement.

In other words, what we need to judge is whether this kind of personal speech can represent the mainstream ideology of a country or society.

Unfortunately, however, many foreign students think that western countries are generally biased against China people.

Although this is related to our historical image and the quality performance of some China people abroad, we cannot ignore that this phenomenon has actually improved in recent years with China playing a greater role in the international arena.

Therefore, we might as well understand the word discrimination in another way, that is, do foreigners still have prejudice against us? Where do these prejudices come from? Do they contain some misunderstandings?

For example, an international student said in an online forum that many Americans like to call China people "China people". At first, he will think it is disrespectful, because it is really a discriminatory word.

But then he remembered that we often call Americans Yankees, didn't we? There are indeed emotional factors in it, but these words alone are more of a joke title.

I can't advise you not to be sensitive, because everyone accepts this kind of thing in different degrees. However, when we feel discrimination, can we stop and think about it, and will we have similar terms that insult foreigners?

In fact, regardless of the factors of skin color and race, this kind of regional prejudice often appears in China, commonly known as "map gun".

For example, Henan people always seem to be misunderstood by many people. For another example, Chengdu and Chongqing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and even east, west, north and south, will all have regional prejudice.

(We often see this contrast on social networking sites. )

The previous "contempt chain for international students" actually reflected some contradictions among us in China.

For example, some people may think that as long as they study in the United States, they should be superior, because they think that going to the United States will require taking entrance exams such as SAT/GMAT/GRE.

(For example, we often see such headlines)

This kind of thinking, which takes the examination threshold as the criterion for judging good or bad, is actually not essentially different from the logic in the map gun. In short, it is to label everyone directly without in-depth understanding.

So back to the topic of "discrimination" of international students abroad, we will have some new understanding.

That is to realize whether the existence of prejudice is reasonable, whether at home or abroad.

Therefore, from this aspect alone, when we feel discrimination, we may be able to better understand its meaning.

How do we oppose malicious discrimination?

Although we may understand some logic behind "discrimination" now, when we really face those malicious discrimination, we can't gain more respect by blindly forbearing.

/kloc-in the 1960s, in view of the political urgency caused by apartheid in South Africa at that time, the United Nations needed to conclude the first treaty to deal with the special phenomenon of racial discrimination. Therefore, the General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in February 1965.

Opposing racial discrimination is the consensus of the international community. Although this common sense has not been fully rooted in people's hearts, we will be protected by these regulations wherever we go.

Therefore, in the face of malicious discrimination, boldly defend rights.

Some netizens have sorted out many methods according to their own experiences. For example, use the gas field to overwhelm each other or attract the attention of people around you, and use public opinion to suppress each other. However, in general, the safest way is to record each other's words and deeds and then call the police.

There are many ways to deal with discrimination. Culture bacteria want to remind everyone that when safeguarding their rights and dignity, they must pay attention to protecting themselves!

May we all become stronger and stronger,

I don't have to put up with discrimination anymore.