05.20.08
Chinese Bloggers Say America Stingy With Sichuan Donation
The American government donated $500,000 to the China Red Cross. Seems like “the helping hand of a friend”, as the US Embassy’s Beijing website called it. But the Chinese bloggers view it differently. Let’s review the comments (in translation) on one blog responding to America’s ‘pultry’ donation. As you read the comments, keep in mind that the $500,000 donation was from the US government and does not represent American corporate or individual donations. I’m not translating all comments as some were deleted, were redundant, or were just posts of “ditto” to earlier comments.
#2 (Guangdong Province) - America is trash. F*ck all American women.
#3 - They’re helping us Chinese? Americans are real crooks. Everyone let’s take action, put forth your effort to help the injured people in the Sichuan earthquake!
#7 - Everyone unite! Whether America donates or not is their business, but we must help.
#9 - America, f*ck your ancestors, a people born as dogs and raised as wolves, a dogsh!t people.
#10 - commenter posted news that McDonald’s is donating 1,000,000 RMB, and that the Ronald McDonald House Fund of China was additionally donating 500,000 RMB. The poster then divided this figure by the 500 McDonald’s chains in China to say that each puts ups RMB 3,0oo.
SH Tig comments - Given how bad the comments are going so far, I’ll hope he wasn’t trying to say that RMB 3,000 per store was not much. But that was his gist. I won’t mention that there are actually many more McDonald’s in China, nearly a thousand, meaning each store is represented by only RMB 1,500. Still not seeing why McDonald’s would be a bad guy with this. They will sell you an apple pie and bottomless coffee for RMB 9 in Shanghai. Seems like they’ve been helping China out all along. Anyway, back to the comments:
#12 - Americans are not good things. They only talk about human rights, not human life.
#14 - It’s an embarrassment that this rich, powerful country only donated $50,000. China always donates millions to them. Next time China will donate RMB 500,000, no more!
#15 - Americans are not good things, only donating $500,000. Damn them to hell.
#16 and 17 (same poster) - Generosity comes from each person’s heart. The essence of a one million dollar donation and a one dollar donation is the same, you can’t require people to donate a certain amount, donating shows the goodness of people, it’s not right to curse them…..everyone feels that America has a lot of money but only donated $500,000, and that to a rich superpower this is a small amount. But no matter what the amount you can’t curse it, afterall maybe that donation was in the first batch, how will all these people cursing explain it if later on more money is given?
#18 - America’s $500,000 clearly demonstrates that America looks down on China. It’s to attack and humiliate China.
#19 - After Myanmar asked for aid, the United Nations and governments of several countries issued an appeal for help…America offered $250,000 to help but was rejected by Myanmar’s government.
#21 - America is the most generous country, but only gave $500,000 to the Sichuan earthquake area, much much less than Hong Kong / Macau / Taiwan / Russia / Japan / Korea, Saudi Arabia.
SHTig comments: Saudi gave US$60 million. That is by comparison a huge amount. Would like to know what’s up there…
#22 - Americans are little people
#24 - American really is damned to no end, like a child just finishing drinking milk
#25 - Don’t beg for the world’s support, rely on ourselves!
#26 - All of America’s money is used for fighting
#35 - America is so disgusting, the American enterprises in China are especially stingy…KFC, Coca-Cola, Microsoft are all iron roosters (stingy).
#36 - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is donating $25,000,000, what do you have to say to that?
SHTig comments: subsequent posts had no response to #36’s point. In fact, they continued on in the same vein more or less as #1-35, sadly…
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