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Recently, there have been a series of violent incidents against "Asians" in the United States.

On March 16, three shootings occurred in Georgia, USA, killing eight people, including six Asian women and two Chinese.

On March 17, a 75-year-old Chinese couple was attacked by a white man in San Francisco. The old woman fought back angrily and wounded the man with a wooden stick.

On March 20th, a 28-year-old Asian single mother was shot and killed in California. The victim's family said that the murderer's criminal motive was racism.

On the same day, a China girl was urinated on her body while riding the new york subway.

On March 23rd, a clothing store in Texas was ransacked by criminals. An Asian female shopkeeper came forward to stop being beaten. The abuser verbally abused her first, and then she did it. The shopkeeper's nose was broken and her son's face was scratched.

On April 3, an Asian woman in California was stabbed to death while walking her dog. The suspect is a 23-year-old white woman.

According to statistics, since 2020, the organization "Stop Hating Asian Americans" has received 3,795 complaints, of which 68% were verbal harassment, and 1 1% involved personal attacks. Anti-Asian sentiment in the United States has reached its highest level in these years.

If you are in the United States, you will realize how serious the discrimination crisis facing Asians today is.

Strangely, however, the "Asian persecution" incident has been raging abroad, but there has been no big movement at home. There is no hot search in online forums, and domestic stars rarely speak.

You know, the "Xinjiang Cotton" incident last month made the whole people angry. On March 25th, dozens of stars also announced the cancellation of the contract with the brands involved, which was called "mainland cancellation day".

Why did the more shocking "Asian victims" incident get a cold shoulder?

First, the particularity of Asians.

We must first understand what "Asians" are.

In a word-"Asians" are Asian American citizens.

Yes, although Asians look like us, they are Americans by nationality.

When they become American citizens, they will take the following vows:

After reading this oath, you will understand why the nationality of stars is so sensitive.

In the eyes of a considerable number of people in China, China people choose American citizenship, which means that they have an American heart. In a lyric, they should sing like this: "Although my skin is yellow, my heart will always be an American heart."

Therefore, objectively speaking, the nationality issue has caused us to "oppose" at some moments and on some occasions.

Legally speaking, "Asian persecution" is essentially a group of Americans persecuting another group of Americans. This is an internal affair of the United States, which we should not manage, and it is not easy to manage.

Even if you ask the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this question, it only extends to the long-standing and comprehensive racial discrimination in the United States. At most, from the perspective of mankind, I hope that the United States will fulfill its promise, fight hatred and restore peace to ethnic minorities.

Our attitude can only be limited to "verbal accusations and expectations." If it rises to "action", then this matter may be transsexual.

Second, Asians are "not United enough".

Even in the "Asian persecution" incident, we saw a lot of protests from the media reports, but under the appearance of these behaviors and voices, Asians are still a complex group, with insufficient internal unity and many emotions intertwined.

You know, Asians are by no means isolated. Asians account for 5.4% of the American population, close to180,000. Together, these people can become a powerful force in America like the Irish. But East Asians are inherently disunited, and Asians in China, Japan and South Korea don't like each other. Therefore, the United States has not engaged in Asians, and they are divided internally.

In this way, Chinese among Asians are isolated, but Chinese account for 1% of the American population, with a total of more than 3 million. If they unite, they will still be a force to be reckoned with.

However, China people are divided into mainlanders and non-mainlanders. After Obama took office, he distinguished the two. Non-mainlanders enjoy far more benefits than mainlanders. China people pay attention to "not suffering from widowhood but suffering from inequality", so the influence of Chinese people was once again disintegrated.

Therefore, although the Asian community living in the United States is not small, it is not United as a whole. What impressed us most was the spontaneous and brave "engagement" of Koreans, but this kind of fighting was also small-scale and relatively independent. Although it shows the determination of Koreans to fight, it has not formed a big climate.

This is why in this incident, when many celebrities in the Asian cultural and sports circles stood up for the first time, they were praised by many people. Under the situation that the Asian community is "divided", such leaders really need to stand up and unite people's hearts and improve morale.

Among them, "Asian destroyer" Pacquiao has the biggest wrist. He is regarded as a national treasure athlete in the Philippines. He posted a domineering message on Twitter: "Come and fight with me."

China movie star Daniel Wu also took to the streets and gave an exciting speech, cheering for the plight of Asians in the United States.

Edison Chen also showed his attitude with a picture: "Stop discriminating against Asians!"

Jeremy Lin also sent a long article on Twitter complaining about the unfair treatment of Asians.

Under the influence of Asian celebrities, many foreign local stars have also come forward.

The famous singer Rihanna took part in the demonstration. She danced while walking, and made a voice for Asians with homemade slogans.

Justin Bieber also writes for Asians. When the disaster in Wuhan was serious last year, he also donated money at the first time and recorded a video to cheer for Wuhan.

In order to support Asians, NBA star Curry took the initiative to contact the Bruce Lee Foundation to launch customized sneakers, and he will use the proceeds from the auction to support Asian families who were victims of the Atlanta shooting.

In a game, Lillard on the bench directly put on a T-shirt, which read "Oppose discrimination against Asians".

It is hard to say whether these measures will bring about qualitative changes. Centuries of discrimination against blacks have proved that arrogant white Americans will not change easily, but the tough resistance of Asians will at least make American society and government face up to this problem. Human nature is bottomless, but it may be improved from the institutional level.

No matter where this incident goes in the future, in short, the road to equality for Asians can be described as "Xiu Yuan has a long way to go".

Thirdly, we face the ambivalence of China people.

People in China always pay attention to a love word. Although Chinese-Americans have been naturalized in the United States, they are of the same ancestry and part of China people.

Even in a foreign land, they are winning glory for the Chinese nation in their own way.

For example, Li Zhengdao and Ding Zhaozhong won the Nobel Prize;

Jeremy Lin played "Lin Crazy" in the NBA;

Locke became governor of washington;

James Wan filmed Saw and Neptune;

Daniel Wu has made many excellent films, and he is an immortal goddess in the hearts of mainland fans.

Therefore, from them, we can see that Chinese Americans are closely related to us. At the same time, the discrimination against Chinese Americans is essentially hostility towards China. China people are fighting in the front line and deserve our respect.

On the other hand, among China people, there are also a large proportion of people who are "exquisite egoists".

On the one hand, they enjoy some benefits brought by "American citizens", live in a big house with a swimming pool and breathe the sweet air of western countries; On the one hand, he also tried to sympathize with China people as "descendants of the Chinese people", which did no good except to show Americans some national inferiority.

The following figure can directly illustrate the problem. Some China demonstrators wrote in the slogan: "I am very fragile, don't attack me."

This is the most uncomfortable place for these people. They are experts in infighting and amateurs in fighting outside. They are China's masters, and they strike hard. It kowtows to the American master and does everything to Nuo Nuo.

Did you get a look at him?

If we want to sympathize with or help the Chinese community, we should look for Chinese from the Asian community, and then eliminate those who are hostile to China from the Chinese community. This process is very complicated, very complicated.

While sympathizing with them, we should constantly ask: Are these people whom we sympathize with friends or enemies? Is there a mole in it? If we can't help them, these sympathies will become very cheap? In the end, people retort. Will the clown be ourselves?

After rounds of self-psychological confrontation, this high sympathy is consumed little by little.

In fact, an event can often make us have two contradictory emotions.

For example, in the 9 1 1 incident, we expressed our deep condolences to the American people who suffered. However, we say that the U.S. government, which has been retaliated by its hegemonism, has brought it on itself.

So is the "Asian persecution" incident.

For the victims of specific incidents, both China people and Asians are unarmed ordinary passers-by. Of course, we have to show great sympathy, and this mood is very certain.

However, our emotions have become ambivalent about the social phenomenon that Asians are excluded and lead to violence.

The United States has repeatedly interfered in China's internal affairs. As a result, China is not chaotic, while the United States is chaotic. This is called self-destruction and it is a very satisfying thing.

However, among Asians, there are people from China who are of the same origin as us. Many of them are people with lofty ideals who helped the motherland when it was in trouble. We can't just sit back and watch them.

However, China people are also full of anti-China elements who are afraid of China chaos. After eating China in America, they were extremely ugly. As ordinary individuals, we want to contribute our own strength, but we are afraid to stage the story of "farmers and snakes" to help them, but they ridicule us as "fools make more money".

Under the entanglement of various emotions, you will find that keeping silent may be the best solution.

Finally, I sincerely hope that there will be fewer and fewer violent incidents in this world, which has nothing to do with politics, race or position. This is the most basic emotional expression of an ordinary human being.

Other things can be solved in eight words: none of my business, none of your business!

Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: A Chicken

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