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The popular image of multi-culturalism as a mosaic, a salad bowl in which different cultures mix but keep their integrity, is misleading. Cultures are more like soups, flavored with many ingredients, some identifiable. –From the book ‘Cultures and societies in a changing world,’ written by Wendy Griswold.

Taiwan has a long history of diasporas and colonization. Even the so-called ‘aboriginal people’ in Taiwan drifted there several thousands years ago. About four hundreds years ago, many Han Chinese from China migrated to Taiwan and changed the aboriginal culture.

For example, Siraya, one group of the aboriginal people, has its own religion, A-Li-Tsu. The historied religious building is very simple. After sinicization, their religious buildings look more like the religious buildings for Groundskeeper God in Han’s culture.

Japan had colonized Taiwan from 1895 to the end of WWII. In 1949, the government of Republic of China lost its former territory following the Chinese civil war and moved to Taiwan. Therefore, it is not surprising that we can saw Japanese-style Buddha statue in a Han’s religious building (photo # 1), which was rebuilt after 1949.

Photo# 1 Japanese-style Buddha statue in a Han’s religious building (Photo courtesy of yueh-feng)

In the 17th century, the Spanish and Dutch ruled Taiwan shortly, and the exposure to the western culture seems to influence the decorations in traditional Han’s religious building–the sculpture in photo # 2 shows a western man wearing a suit in a Han’s temple.

Photo# 2 A western-man decoration in a Han’s temple (Photo courtesy of sunny)

The Spanish and Dutch also brought Christianity to Taiwan, and Christianity is one of the major religions in Taiwan. Photo # 3 shows a church with Torii, a traditional Japanese gate commonly found at the entry of to a Shinto shrine.

Photo# 3 A torii in the property of a church (Photo courtesy of little fox)

There is another flavor added to the religious buildings in Taiwan: modern. Decades ago, some fishermen picked up several damaged god statues and set up a temple for them. However, where they set up this temple became a park and the government asked them to move the temple. Because they do not have other place to set up the temple, they can only move the temple when the policemen came. At the end, the government decided to let the temple stay, but due to the possibility of flooding, the temple is designed to be able to be raised up when needed (along the four pillars around the temple).

After reading this article, do you think multi-culturalism observed in Taiwan is a salad bowl or soups?

For Tibetan independence movement, most Taiwanese support and sympathize Tibetans, and many people changed their twitter profile figure to the flag of Tibet which represents Tibetan independence movement.

‘Free Tibet’ (Photo courtesy of skydaughter.)

Many artists, writers, musicians, and social movement participants held ‘Bringing love to Tibet’ to pray for Tibetans:

多年來，台灣年輕志工的身影，經常出現在全球各地需要協助的所在。如今，與台灣只隔著中國的西藏，受到暴力鎮壓，台灣年輕人感同身受，決心挺身聲援，用音樂、詩歌聲援西藏。

Compared to other countries, Tibetan independence movement has a very special meaning for Taiwan. Most of the discussions are based on empathy, because Taiwan and Tibet are both threatened and manipulated by China. Terry said,

我個人很畏懼這個國家（中國）過往的殘酷紀錄，我高中時爆發的天安門事件，根據現在許多的證據顯示，當年天安門事件的確出動了軍隊鎮壓，並且開槍殺死了許多人民，對於這樣一個雙手沾滿血腥的鄰居，我只用戒慎恐懼來形容。

我身邊有許多人說：我們有中文語言的優勢，我們不應該自絕跟這個鄰居做生意，讓自己經濟繁榮的機會。但如果這樣的經濟繁榮機會，最後卻讓自己陷入被鎮壓、同時無法擁有民主自由的現在，我會寧可選擇保守一點，日子苦一點無所謂，但我想要高興談論、自由呼吸自由存在。

Some people reflected Taiwan’s history and compared its own oppressed past with Tibetan independence movement. Judie said, Tibetans are in their 228 Massacre.

圖博人正在經歷他們的二二八，與外來統治者展開艱難的鬥爭。[…]他們的行動被統治者誤解、汙衊，無辜者的血繼續流，傷痕正在加深…….

Many people criticized the mass media in Taiwan. Jas took blocking the news about Tibet for example and said, because the sources and gatekeepers are different, this independence movement is reported differently.

（中國）過去稱六四天安門為一小撮人，稱台獨為一小撮人，如今又同樣以一小撮人來指涉被迫害的西藏人。

Tucci in Germany compared the news about Tibet in Taiwan and Germany, and said the news is obviously less in Taiwan than in Germany.

一個國家動用軍警武力殺害抗議的人民，是對人權最赤裸的摧殘與蔑視；[…]我想這件事的歷史重要性不會在六四天安門之下，但很遺憾的是，國內的主要媒體的新聞處理淡很多，跟德國所有全國性的媒體統統頭版處理差別實在很大。

Sindia in Beijing talked about the information blockage in China.

有人問我北京人對西藏事件的看法，在這種情形下，北京人連西藏發生了什麼事恐怕都不知道，知道的也就是一面倒的聲音，若干藏民暴徒挑起暴亂，傷害無辜漢族百姓，達賴在背後策動，目的是要搗亂奧運，爭取獨立。這就是所有來自中國媒體的新聞角度，在這種情形下，北京一般民眾，還能有什麼看法？

Although China government blocks the information, due to the advance of technology, some people in China tries to use instant messanger and twitter to see people’s comment about the protest in Tibet, even though they are confused or unhappy. A message in zola may show some people’s opinions:

西藏現在需要的，是健康的發展和對藏文化的保護，以及西藏問題的和平解決，罈子裡這些喊打喊殺的兄弟，如果你們有一個真正的藏族朋友，也許你們就不會說那些話了。

Annpo asked Chinese friends through twitter, and one of them who worked in Tibet said:

藏区的生活的确改善很大，起码比周边的国家都不错，这是应该看到的。但[…]生活好了，就会满足吗？[…]政府免费让他们读书，却用的是汉族课本。[…]藏族人对青藏铁路并不完全是支持的。而在拉萨日益繁华的时候，我那些老藏族的邻居却一个个都搬走了，这些难道还不够说明问题？

There are other people caring about Tibet. Reiw in Hong Kong made a detail analysis and zola shared the summary of the news. Chao-Chen Lin, a reporter interviewing Dalai Lama and many Tibetans before, explained the problem of Tibet is due to the failure of conversation between Dalai Lama and Chinese government, and the development brought by China government that destroys their culture.

Acknowledgment: Annpo wrote this article, and I-Fan edited and translated it into English.

Carrefour has been rolled into a campaign mixed up with both boycott and anti-boycott.

Recently, a widely circulated message writes

我们希望您至少在5月1日这一天抵制家乐福，让5月1日家乐福空荡荡的卖场向西方传达一个信息：中国 不可辱！中国人民不可欺！
　　抵制家乐福的活动将在全国各地展开，期待您的参与！谢谢您。

We hope you are able to boycott Carrefour at least on 1 May, to deliver, by the empty Carrefour that day, one message to the western world: Chinese shouldn’t be humiliated! Chinese people shouldn’t be insulted!
The boycott against Carrefour is going to spreading all over the country, and we anticipate your presence! Thank you.

Carrefour, the French retail giant, is the newest target on the list of what cyber-nationalists in China hate and aim at. Cell phone text messages calling on boycotts are popping up, over 5000 net cafes in China, as Daqi.com summed up, have been rife with posts against Carrefour, and quite a few radical netizens have already made the slogans into practice.

The boycott is supposed to be caused by the recent grief and violence the Olympic torch relay suffered from in France and the saying that a big shareholder of Carrefour, LVMH group, has donated money to the Dalai Lama.

The original text of the widely circulated appeal also explains,

刚刚结束的法国PARIS站OLYMPIC圣火传递，并不象大多数国人所知道的那样平静。在中国人把象征友谊与和平的OLYMPIC圣火传进法国时，我们看到法国人和 法国go-vern-ment都做了什么：
　　1.圣火传递前，法国当地电视台号召市民上街抗议示威，说：“不要让中国的旗子飘的到处都是”。
　　2.圣火传递中，火炬在Z D势力及其支持者的暴力阻挠下，被迫四次熄灭；
　　3.负责安保的法国pol.ice任由Z D分子在其眼皮底下抢夺火炬，殴打中国残疾火炬手，却袖手旁观；
　　4.火炬所到之处，法国人成群结队地举着Z D分子的旗子，叫嚣“XZ独立”、“中国羞耻”等口号，向中国示威；
　　5.成群的法国青年甚至抢夺中国留学生手中的五星红旗，当众撕碎，并殴打中国留学生；
　　6.法国巴黎市go-vern-ment在圣火经过市政厅时，悬挂出支持XZ独立的横幅和标语，全体市议员胸前佩带支持XZ独立的标章，使得原定于在市政厅前举行的庆祝仪式不得不取消；
　　7.法国的主流媒体在圣火传递结束后，以这样的标题进行了回顾：“火炬在巴黎惨败”法国《费加罗报》，“给中国一记耳光”法国《解放报》。

The Olympic torch relay that just ended in Paris is not as peaceful as most of Chinese know about. Let’s see what French and its government have done when Chinese carried the torch, a symbol of peace and friendship into their territory.
1. Before the relay, a French TV station called on people to protest on street for the reason that they “don’t want Chinese flags flaunting all over”.
2. The torch was forced to extinguish for 4 times under the violent disruptions of Tibet separatists.
3. The French police in charge of security simply stood by to see the separatists snatching the torch, and striking the disabled torch carrier.
4. At where the torch went by, hordes of French waved the flag of separatists, clamoring “Free Tibet’, “Shame on China” to protest against China.
5. Groups of young men even scrambled the Chinese students’ Five-star flags and tore them up, two sides in conflict.
6. When the sacred fire passed by the City Hall of Paris, the banners and slogans of pro-Tibet independence were hung out and all the alderman put on the pro-separatism badges, a behavior that made the planned ceremony there cancelled.
7. The major media in France reviewed the torch relay with such headlines— Fiasco in Paris(Figaro) and A Slap on China

And it’s not unusual to see such comments tightly following up the petition.

完全抵制家乐福。
Completely boycott Carrefour.
坚决抵制
Resolutely boycott!

Furthermore, QQ groups all over China were set up to recruit boycott activists. A list shows that places including Chongqing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, more than 20 areas totally, have joined this cyber campaign, during which netizens can communicate by the IM tool to make the whole protest more organizational.

In fact at Kunming, a city in southern China, netizens have extended their slogans to the reality

by protesting in front of the local Carrefour. The banner reads:
支持奥运，反对藏独，抵制法货，抵制家乐福

Support Olympic, oppose Tibet-independence; boycott French products and Carrefour!

In Beijing, a girl held up a self-made sign to show her anger with the brutal treat Jin Jing, the disabled torch carrier received in France.

A netizen commented:

顶礼！

Salute to her!

A-dish-of-cuisine said:

这帖子不顶我就不是中国人
mm，你是我们中国人的榜样！
比那些漠然无视的人狠狠一巴掌！

I were not a Chinese if I didn’t bump up this post
Girl, you are the Chinese idol!
A tough slap over those indifferent people.
Anti-boycott is also on fire

This time the rivaling voice doesn’t fade as years ago when the appeal of boycotting Japan products was at climax. Even on Tianya.com, a well-known marketplace of bold clamors and patriotism, the petitions of anti-boycott don’t shy away.

In Tianya, netizen Lepel said in his post “you are so unwise to boycott Carrefour, or, you think us too unwise”,

看到很多人在发起和组织抵制法国零售业巨头家乐福的活动，感觉实在可笑，同时也深为国人的愚昧而痛心。就象之前的抵制日货、抵制美货，或更久远的抵制洋货 运动一样愚昧。难道，非要把中国孤立于这个世界才好？难道，非要再搞一次“闭关锁国”才罢？想象当初的反日活动，作为一个老百姓，我们得到了什么好处？而 政府在双方关系缓和后，却又开始“镇压”有些失控的反日活动。……..这 样的教训还不够，现在又要反法，好了，你抵制了一个家乐福，便宜的只是其他超市，老百姓得到的只是要多跑一些路、多花一些钱去买日用品，还会得到什么？等 有朝一日，法国换了总统或对华政策，到时候又回到“中法友谊万古长存”的路子上来是早晚的事，到了那时候在看看今天大家的举动难道不觉得可笑吗？

I feel it so ridiculous when hearing that so many people are organizing a boycott against Carrefour. I bear great sorrow for their blindness, which is as much stupid as the boycotts against Japanese, American and all western products long time ago. Do you have to isolate China from the world again? Reviewing the anti-Japan activity years ago, I wonder what we commons have really got the campaign. When the tension between the governments came to ease, the anti-Japan action that slightly crossed the line got a crackdown….and we have not yet learnt a lesson from that, and now we are going to have anti-France.
Fine, with the boycott, you would simply favor advantage to all other supermarkets and let people go further and spend more for daily shopping. Anything else?
Someday in the future when a new French president comes into power or the policy gets changed, everything will just go back to “Long live China-France friendship”, sooner or later. At that time, won’t it be laughable to look back at what we are doing now?

在爽与不爽中徘徊 analyzed that it will be the Chinese people that really suffer from the boycott, if it comes true.

抵制家乐福？拜托 实际上你抵制的是那些中国的生产厂家 家乐福的中国员工 还有什么 还有我们自己国家 因为家乐福在对中国政府上税！！！你能抵制到巴黎市长么？扯淡吧

Boycott Carrefour? Come on! You are actually boycotting the Chinese manufactures, Chinese workmen there and the country of our own, because Carrefour pays tax to our government!!! Are you able to boycott Paris mayor? BS.

HAINAN-COCONUT-WIND（海南椰风）ridicules,

我干嘛要抵制，我朝都没有号召，没准过段日子又在大谈中法友好呢！以前和越南又是打战又是谴责的，现在不还是亲切友好的会谈，不还是中越人民友谊嘛！死的那些战士，谁他妈管他们！cao！

Why should I boycott? Our dynasty (allusion to the ruling party-translator) has not yet called on, and perhaps soon they will talk greatly on the China-France friendship.
In history, it used to fight hard with Vietnam, but what about now? Friendly conversation and fellowship between us two peoples! Who care about those soldiers died there? F…

柳州刺史 recalled what he was doing ten years ago,　

10年前，中国大使馆被霉菌炸了，我比现在的粪粪还粪粪，回想一下，真想抽自己嘴巴

Ten years ago when the Chinese embassy was bombed by U.S army I was even more indignant that the “patriotic young men” today. Thinking over that I really wish to slap myself.

东边日出西边女 might be facing an embarrassment,

　我们这个中小城市政府目前正在加大力度引进家乐福.各的小官员忙得不亦乐乎.
　　我该怎么办,抵制?和我D政府不是一条心了.

Our city is taking pain to introduce the Carrefour in, every official extremely busy on that plan. What should I do? Boycott? Then I will be clashing with our party and country.

城南笑笑 grumbled

反日反法发德反韩反台反意反澳反越反英反美•••反全世界••反整个宇宙。就是不反独裁和腐败。悲哀的人

Anti-Japan anti-France anti-German anti-Korea anti-Taiwan anti-Italy anti-Australia anti-Vietnam anti-Britain anti-U.S…anti-world…anti-universe.
But NO anti-autarchy and corruption. So tragic men.

And Adaste concluded,

这就叫政府挖坑，热血青年栽树

This is called “the government digs holes, and zealous youngsters plant trees”.

Finally, an analogy might reveal how a lot of people view this patriotic action.
Magicsilence said,

粪青乃我党的安全套,高潮之后即弃之

The patriotic youngsters are the condom of the party— discarded right after high tide.

The points of the two camps diverge sharply. Rumors have been heard that Carrefour is going to make considerable discounts on 1 May to counteract the planned boycott. And it has announced that it will always be the friend of Chinese. But even not so, the chances of a successful boycott campaign is doubted, as the predominant public opinion years ago for a boycott over Japan didn’t make a good shot, while today the each side is equally strong.

Links and pictures will be added up tommorrow.

Carrefour has been rolled into a campaign mixed up with both boycott and anti-boycott.

Recently, a widely circulated message writes

我们希望您至少在5月1日这一天抵制家乐福，让5月1日家乐福空荡荡的卖场向西方传达一个信息：中国 不可辱！中国人民不可欺！
　　抵制家乐福的活动将在全国各地展开，期待您的参与！谢谢您。

We hope you are able to boycott Carrefour at least on 1 May, to deliver, by the empty Carrefour that day, one message to the western world: Chinese shouldn’t be humiliated! Chinese people shouldn’t be insulted!
The boycott against Carrefour is going to spreading all over the country, and we anticipate your presence! Thank you.

Carrefour, the French retail giant, is the newest target on the list of what cyber-nationalists in China hate and aim at. Cell phone text messages calling on boycotts are popping up, over 5000 net cafes in China, as Daqi.com summed up, have been rife with posts against Carrefour, and quite a few radical netizens have already made the slogans into practice.

The boycott is supposed to be caused by the recent grief and violence the Olympic torch relay suffered from in France and the saying that a big shareholder of Carrefour, LVMH group, has donated money to the Dalai Lama.

The original text of the widely circulated appeal also explains,

刚刚结束的法国PARIS站OLYMPIC圣火传递，并不象大多数国人所知道的那样平静。在中国人把象征友谊与和平的OLYMPIC圣火传进法国时，我们看到法国人和 法国go-vern-ment都做了什么：
　　1.圣火传递前，法国当地电视台号召市民上街抗议示威，说：“不要让中国的旗子飘的到处都是”。
　　2.圣火传递中，火炬在Z D势力及其支持者的暴力阻挠下，被迫四次熄灭；
　　3.负责安保的法国pol.ice任由Z D分子在其眼皮底下抢夺火炬，殴打中国残疾火炬手，却袖手旁观；
　　4.火炬所到之处，法国人成群结队地举着Z D分子的旗子，叫嚣“XZ独立”、“中国羞耻”等口号，向中国示威；
　　5.成群的法国青年甚至抢夺中国留学生手中的五星红旗，当众撕碎，并殴打中国留学生；
　　6.法国巴黎市go-vern-ment在圣火经过市政厅时，悬挂出支持XZ独立的横幅和标语，全体市议员胸前佩带支持XZ独立的标章，使得原定于在市政厅前举行的庆祝仪式不得不取消；
　　7.法国的主流媒体在圣火传递结束后，以这样的标题进行了回顾：“火炬在巴黎惨败”法国《费加罗报》，“给中国一记耳光”法国《解放报》。

The Olympic torch relay that just ended in Paris is not as peaceful as most of Chinese know about. Let’s see what French and its government have done when Chinese carried the torch, a symbol of peace and friendship into their territory.
1. Before the relay, a French TV station called on people to protest on street for the reason that they “don’t want Chinese flags flaunting all over”.
2. The torch was forced to extinguish for 4 times under the violent disruptions of Tibet separatists.
3. The French police in charge of security simply stood by to see the separatists snatching the torch, and striking the disabled torch carrier.
4. At where the torch went by, hordes of French waved the flag of separatists, clamoring “Free Tibet’, “Shame on China” to protest against China.
5. Groups of young men even scrambled the Chinese students’ Five-star flags and tore them up, two sides in conflict.
6. When the sacred fire passed by the City Hall of Paris, the banners and slogans of pro-Tibet independence were hung out and all the alderman put on the pro-separatism badges, a behavior that made the planned ceremony there cancelled.
7. The major media in France reviewed the torch relay with such headlines— Fiasco in Paris(Figaro) and A Slap on China

And it’s not unusual to see such comments tightly following up the petition.

完全抵制家乐福。
Completely boycott Carrefour.
坚决抵制
Resolutely boycott!

Furthermore, QQ groups all over China were set up to recruit boycott activists. A list shows that places including Chongqing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, more than 20 areas totally, have joined this cyber campaign, during which netizens can communicate by the IM tool to make the whole protest more organizational.

In fact at Kunming, a city in southern China, netizens have extended their slogans to the reality

by protesting in front of the local Carrefour. The banner reads:
支持奥运，反对藏独，抵制法货，抵制家乐福

Support Olympic, oppose Tibet-independence; boycott French products and Carrefour!

In Beijing, a girl held up a self-made sign to show her anger with the brutal treat Jin Jing, the disabled torch carrier received in France.

A netizen commented:

顶礼！

Salute to her!

A-dish-of-cuisine said:

这帖子不顶我就不是中国人
mm，你是我们中国人的榜样！
比那些漠然无视的人狠狠一巴掌！

I were not a Chinese if I didn’t bump up this post
Girl, you are the Chinese idol!
A tough slap over those indifferent people.
Anti-boycott is also on fire

This time the rivaling voice doesn’t fade as years ago when the appeal of boycotting Japan products was at climax. Even on Tianya.com, a well-known marketplace of bold clamors and patriotism, the petitions of anti-boycott don’t shy away.

In Tianya, netizen Lepel said in his post “you are so unwise to boycott Carrefour, or, you think us too unwise”,

看到很多人在发起和组织抵制法国零售业巨头家乐福的活动，感觉实在可笑，同时也深为国人的愚昧而痛心。就象之前的抵制日货、抵制美货，或更久远的抵制洋货 运动一样愚昧。难道，非要把中国孤立于这个世界才好？难道，非要再搞一次“闭关锁国”才罢？想象当初的反日活动，作为一个老百姓，我们得到了什么好处？而 政府在双方关系缓和后，却又开始“镇压”有些失控的反日活动。……..这 样的教训还不够，现在又要反法，好了，你抵制了一个家乐福，便宜的只是其他超市，老百姓得到的只是要多跑一些路、多花一些钱去买日用品，还会得到什么？等 有朝一日，法国换了总统或对华政策，到时候又回到“中法友谊万古长存”的路子上来是早晚的事，到了那时候在看看今天大家的举动难道不觉得可笑吗？

I feel it so ridiculous when hearing that so many people are organizing a boycott against Carrefour. I bear great sorrow for their blindness, which is as much stupid as the boycotts against Japanese, American and all western products long time ago. Do you have to isolate China from the world again? Reviewing the anti-Japan activity years ago, I wonder what we commons have really got the campaign. When the tension between the governments came to ease, the anti-Japan action that slightly crossed the line got a crackdown….and we have not yet learnt a lesson from that, and now we are going to have anti-France.
Fine, with the boycott, you would simply favor advantage to all other supermarkets and let people go further and spend more for daily shopping. Anything else?
Someday in the future when a new French president comes into power or the policy gets changed, everything will just go back to “Long live China-France friendship”, sooner or later. At that time, won’t it be laughable to look back at what we are doing now?

在爽与不爽中徘徊 analyzed that it will be the Chinese people that really suffer from the boycott, if it comes true.

抵制家乐福？拜托 实际上你抵制的是那些中国的生产厂家 家乐福的中国员工 还有什么 还有我们自己国家 因为家乐福在对中国政府上税！！！你能抵制到巴黎市长么？扯淡吧

Boycott Carrefour? Come on! You are actually boycotting the Chinese manufactures, Chinese workmen there and the country of our own, because Carrefour pays tax to our government!!! Are you able to boycott Paris mayor? BS.

HAINAN-COCONUT-WIND（海南椰风）ridicules,

我干嘛要抵制，我朝都没有号召，没准过段日子又在大谈中法友好呢！以前和越南又是打战又是谴责的，现在不还是亲切友好的会谈，不还是中越人民友谊嘛！死的那些战士，谁他妈管他们！cao！

Why should I boycott? Our dynasty (allusion to the ruling party-translator) has not yet called on, and perhaps soon they will talk greatly on the China-France friendship.
In history, it used to fight hard with Vietnam, but what about now? Friendly conversation and fellowship between us two peoples! Who care about those soldiers died there? F…

柳州刺史 recalled what he was doing ten years ago,　

10年前，中国大使馆被霉菌炸了，我比现在的粪粪还粪粪，回想一下，真想抽自己嘴巴

Ten years ago when the Chinese embassy was bombed by U.S army I was even more indignant that the “patriotic young men” today. Thinking over that I really wish to slap myself.

东边日出西边女 might be facing an embarrassment,

　我们这个中小城市政府目前正在加大力度引进家乐福.各的小官员忙得不亦乐乎.
　　我该怎么办,抵制?和我D政府不是一条心了.

Our city is taking pain to introduce the Carrefour in, every official extremely busy on that plan. What should I do? Boycott? Then I will be clashing with our party and country.

城南笑笑 grumbled

反日反法发德反韩反台反意反澳反越反英反美•••反全世界••反整个宇宙。就是不反独裁和腐败。悲哀的人

Anti-Japan anti-France anti-German anti-Korea anti-Taiwan anti-Italy anti-Australia anti-Vietnam anti-Britain anti-U.S…anti-world…anti-universe.
But NO anti-autarchy and corruption. So tragic men.

And Adaste concluded,

这就叫政府挖坑，热血青年栽树

This is called “the government digs holes, and zealous youngsters plant trees”.

Finally, an analogy might reveal how a lot of people view this patriotic action.
Magicsilence said,

粪青乃我党的安全套,高潮之后即弃之

The patriotic youngsters are the condom of the party— discarded right after high tide.

The points of the two camps diverge sharply. Rumors have been heard that Carrefour is going to make considerable discounts on 1 May to counteract the planned boycott. And it has announced that it will always be the friend of Chinese. But even not so, the chances of a successful boycott campaign is doubted, as the predominant public opinion years ago for a boycott over Japan didn’t make a good shot, while today the each side is equally strong.

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