Chinese hurl 'Nazi' epithets at German Expo pavilion in Shanghai
Published: 18 May 10 10:42 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100518-27261.html
Long waits at Germany’s Expo 2010 pavilion in Shanghai reportedly have Chinese guests brawling and hurling “Nazi” insults.
The Chinese visitors at the world fair have repeatedly tried to muscle their way into Germany’s €50-million exhibition structure after hours of standing in line, causing the Germans to send a letter of protest to expo organisers demanding additional security, daily
Süddeutsche Zeitung
reported on Tuesday.
“I have personally observed workers at our pavilion suffer unbearable behaviour from the visitors, including shocking insults and physical attacks,” general commissioner for the German pavilion Dietmar Schmitz wrote on May 2.
He has not received an answer from the Chinese, he told the paper.
The skirmishes reportedly began on one of the first days of the expo, which runs from May 1 to October 31. On that day a long line of people, including some in wheelchairs, became enraged with delays and began tearing flowers out of the ground and throwing them at the pavilion.
Some shouted "na cui, na cui," which the paper said was Chinese for “Nazi, Nazi,” Schmitz confirmed.
“I don’t think the Chinese even know what they shouting,” Schmitz he told the paper.
Workers at the German site have called Chinese emergency services on several occasions to break up fights and control the crowd, press spokeswoman Marion Conrady told the paper, adding that for several days more security forces have been patrolling the area.
Such skirmishes have also occurred at the English and Swiss pavilions, the paper said.
In the meantime, the German pavilion instituted a new ticket system for those in wheelchairs to bypass long lines.
The theme of the exposition is “Better City – Better Life,” and is the most expensive in world fair history. More than 190 countries are taking part.
Germany’s pavilion is called “Balancity,” which is meant to signify a city in balance with “renewal and preservation, innovation and tradition, urbanity and nature, community and individual development and work and leisure” through thematic urban spaces.
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看来中国人的形象已经开始向外输出了，真是不错，扬我国威。就是不知道等我出了国，当地人会怎么看待我这个异类。然后呢，输出了之后还不让人国内的人知道，要知道还要爬过万里长城，真是莫名其妙，我们都是伟大的鸵鸟。
下面的评论很耐人寻味，摘了几个供大家赏析。
12:48 May 18, 2010 by MrNosey The Chinese probably thought they were missing out on a free lunch in the tent.13:01 May 18, 2010 by RainyDays This incident doesn't surprise me at all. Queues are still a relatively new concept in China. When I was in Beijing shortly before the Olympic Games, people were being instructed how to queue at underground stations, bus stops, ticket booths etc., sometimes with police surveilling. In other respects, I found Chinese people very friendly and polite, but the queuing discipline is worse than Germany. It's probably the fear of coming away empty-handed in a society where shortages of all kinds of things were or still are frequent.
16:06 May 18, 2010 by wood artist In a society so heavily regimented, I'm surprised by the behavior. However, waiting in line is probably a sure way for frustration in a country where abundance exists only in the population numbers. I'm sure the folks at the back of the line assume they will get left behind on the "goodies."
I can't speak for China, but the word Nazi is pretty well understood throughout the world, and it usually isn't used lightly. If they're using it in connecting with the German pavilion I suspect they know exactly what it means.
18:43 May 18, 2010 by Henckel It's laughable for the Chinese to call German Nazis when one thinks of the 60 million Chinese who died during the 27-year rule of Mao Zhe-dong (Mat Tse-tung).
01:31 May 20, 2010 by Prufrock2010 I think it will be a far worse thing if western consumers continue to buy Chinese exports to save a few euros or bucks. The Chinese cash reserves are approaching 3 trillion dollars, which gives them not only extraordinary political leverage to influence (read: intimidate) other nations' sovereign political decisions by buying sovereign debt and investing in foreign infrastructures, such as in South Asia.
The Chinese system is quite simply totalitarian capitalism, a top down capitalist monopoly that answers only to the Party. The advantage they have is a virtually limitless labor force (including prison labor) who work for practically nothing, and a government that controls all exports and imports while keeping its currency artificially undervalued. and its people impoverished. The Washington consensus has been replaced by the Beijing consensus, and all the industrial nations in the world are falling all over themselves to emulate that paradigm. The Chinese are literally going to own most of the world in your lifetimes if this trend continues.
03:02 May 20, 2010 by sigfus45 majura is far too polite in commenting, "German's are (naturally) sensitive about the use of the word 'Nazi' whereas people the world over aren't.
Anyway, these queue issues in China aren't new. Anyone that knows anything about Chinese mentality should've expected impatient selfishness. "
People in China are so used to large numbers of people that a thought of personal responsibility is not present. Behaviour, by western standards, is aggressive, corrupt, and mob mentality rules. Don't bother going to China if you cannot stand contstant criticism and loud obnoxious people.