man yesterday my mom told me about something that happened to her when she was visiting a childhood friend/neighbour
So she was sitting at a restaurant or something, talking to her friend, and then this random old (white) dude comes up to them and als my mother: "are you Chinese?" So my mother answers in English and says "yes". The man says "Oh well I can speak a little Chinese" and hits them with the "Nihao" OK, she could excuse that, maybe the man was truly just trying to communicate and had no malicious intent you know? Benefit of doubt.
So the man continues and goes on about something (I honestly forgot what my mother told me about that part, but at one point they started conversing in Dutch, and then my mother and her friend urged him to end this conversation, because my mom and her friend were actually talking before this man interrupted them)
And then he actually came back. For a conversation??? Nobody expected that, but ok! Maybe he just really wants to talk with them!
So then he says: "You're in the Netherlands! People greet eachother here and make conversations you know!" Or something along those lines. (Which wow, uhm, you were interrupting them, idk that's kind of rude everywhere, and they don't even know you) And he was saying this like they were being rude to him earlier, but he was the rude one and they even tried to kindly cut the conversation short.
And then he says "The arrogance of China these days! But the dragon will fall!" He also started talking louder, and honestly, I thought this was just embarrassing. Was he trying to spread some kind of political propaganda? I don't know.
And then my mom's friend said "Fuck off" (in Dutch) and ended the conversation wow!
The man was racist and rude and ignorant. Whose arrogance exactly? If I remember correctly the white people also colonised and stuff! Arrogance of China? Sure. But maybe also remember the centuries of arrogance of the Western countries like the ones in Europe. And maybe also remember that you are still doing it now. Albeit less extreme and obvious, they are still doing it. Capitalism is the best system blabalvala. I'm starting to think capitalism is just like communism and only works in theory
I got really tilted because idk how this dude could forget about colonialism
