Recently, in the ancient city area of Dali in Yunnan Province, a boy with a white cloth tied on his head with the design of the Japanese national flag angered a large number of onlookers. The boy was beaten by two men and forcibly had his headscarf removed, sparking heated discussions and debates on the scene.
Video footage from the scene shows a boy wearing a dark green top with a white cloth tied around his head, bearing the design of the Japanese national flag along with the traditional Chinese characters ‘必勝’ (victory).
A female tourist with a Northeastern accent approached the boy and questioned, “Are you Chinese? Why are you wearing this? Take it off quickly,” and she attempted to remove the headscarf from the boy’s head.
The boy refused to take off the headscarf and claimed he was Japanese, leading to a dispute between the two. The woman picked up a stick, pointing it at the boy and threatened, “I’ll beat you to death today,” while hitting the boy with the stick.
The boy pointed his finger at the woman and argued back. As the woman’s voice grew louder from the argument and combined with the boy’s attire, it quickly attracted a crowd of onlookers, with two groups of tourists directly coming forward to beat the boy.
Many netizens commented that subsequently, a man from the Northeast knocked the boy to the ground, followed by a Southern man reprimanding and beating the boy, forcibly removing the white cloth from the boy’s head.
Mainland Chinese netizens have been discussing:
“This must be a Japanese student in a Chinese school. It’s fine to reason with him, but violence is not the answer, that’s illegal.”
“If a Chinese person wearing a Chinese victory symbol on their head gets attacked by a Japanese person, how do you think people would react?”
“The boy was probably just practicing karate, but that woman took it too far, as if she came out of a tomb.”
“A group of people ganging up on a child is excessive. This headscarf is for Japanese martial arts competitions, it doesn’t represent anything negative. If everything brought from Japan is labeled as militaristic, should we smash all Japanese cars on the streets?”
A similar incident occurred near the Chongqing Planning Exhibition Hall on April 27.
Two women dressed in kimono accompanied a man with a white cloth tied on his head, were live streaming a dance performance near the Chongqing Planning Exhibition Hall, which led to verbal attacks from local people. Several middle-aged men surrounded the three individuals and yelled at them, with the man in the white cloth being pushed and shoved. Both parties continued to argue and insult each other, eventually leading to a police intervention.
During the “Chongqing gas price doubling incident” that was happening at the same time, some netizens sarcastically commented, “The people can clearly see who they can bully. The people would never express their anger at the gas company’s door.”
In August 2022, a woman from Jiangsu was also in trouble for wearing a Japanese kimono and taking photos on the street. Not only was the woman publicly scolded and had her clothes torn by the police, but she was also taken to the police station on charges of provocation and causing trouble.
Human rights activist Mr. Zhang from mainland China analyzed with NTD: “If wearing a kimono hurts the feelings of the Chinese people, then does that mean Chinese people can’t wear Western suits? When nationalism is exaggerated to such an extent, it’s not beneficial to the country.”
Political commentator Yan Dan once wrote that in the ultimate goal of communism, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “builds a nation on hate, rules with evil, and its vigorously promoted ‘patriotism’ is actually ‘hatredism.’ In the CCP’s dictionary, ‘patriotism’ means hating the United States, the West, Japan…hating all so-called ‘enemies’ of the CCP.”
The CCP brainwashes its people and successfully shifts hatred. This “hatredism” is fragile and double standard: while pink enthusiasts can cheer for Japan in Japan, they do not allow their compatriots to openly wear kimonos in China.
The article points out that when ordinary people are bullied and exploited by public power, pink enthusiasts can stand by coldly or even speak for the government. When Americans, Japanese, or Taiwanese encounter disasters, they are quick to come out and gloat, showing a double standard in their actions.
Yan Dan stated in the article that the CCP’s evil brainwashing technique has turned many Chinese people into something inhuman. Only when people dare to break free from fear, no longer hate the so-called ‘enemies’ as dictated by the CCP’s lies, and can distinguish right from wrong, will the CCP’s brainwashing be completely bankrupt, and the Chinese people can truly regain a new life.