No Dogs or Frenchmen
You have to give China’s citizens credit — when they’re unleashed (no pun intended) and able to express their dismay, they can get creative. Over at Shanghaiist, they have the latest sign to make the rounds, declaring on the taxicab: “refuse to carry frenchmen and dogs.”
Of course all good moviegoers and Bruce Lee fans will recognize this as a nod to the film “Fist of Fury” where Lee kicks down the hated sign, “No dogs and Chinese allowed.”
Roland Soong of ESWN did a good post in helping to decipher whether this sign was authentic or not. Though given the current climate, accuracy isn’t exactly first on peoples’ list of priorities.
April 25th, 2008 18:13
After having travelled in China for three months last year and interacting quite a bit with Chinese people during my trip I had quite a good impression of the Chinese and the progress China has made. But guess what, posts like this that call xenophobic slogans on taxis just creative and the Chinese nationalism that can be found all over the web and at Wikipedia at the moment has profoundly changed that.
PS: And no, I am not one of these guys who can just shout Free Tibet and not more, because as it happens I have tried to understand the average Chinese position on Taiwan, Tibet and so on.
May 6th, 2008 16:50
[...] If it’s not anti-Olympic protests, pro-Olympic/anti-foreign protests, Athletes pulling out, organisers pulling out or general media criticism it’s… a medical epidemic. [...]
April 17th, 2009 22:09
Glad to see that chinese ‘way of expressing their dismays’ hasn’t evolved since japanese’s early 20th century occupation (ref. to ‘fist of fury’).
I doubt that copying hundred years old racist slogan from their occupant is any proof of creativity…
Still…we were hoping that in 2008, xenophobic slogans could be punished by law just like they are in France…since 1881…