As we all know, Xu Sun, a student with scholarship from China who got into trouble as a result of saying "there are more dogs than people in Singapore." First, I would like to introduce the origin of this speech to you. Qingdong Kong, aprofessor of Peking University, used to give critical comments on a video about an incident happened on Hong Kong's subway. However, the media misinterpreted the speech on purpose in order to attract more attention, which eventually caused a great disturbance. In fact, he never said that "people who don't speak mandarin are dogs" or "Hong Kong people are all dogs". I think that the media should not be that irresponsible. On the other hand, Qingdong Kong had better pay more attention on his words since they may have a very bad influence. Then Xu Sun quoted the misinterpreted words to complain about something, which also caused a great disturbance in Singapore. I feel sorry to hear that since I think we should be thankful that we got the scholarship to study in Singapore rather than insult Singaporeans. Besides this, people should pay attention to their own words especially in this law-governing society. In conclusion, people should treat the media objectively and be careful of what we say.
I feel lucky for Sun Xu because he can finally graduated from NUS but I still feel sorry for him because of his irrational action. I think what we do in other countries not only reflects our own quality, but also the image of China. Hence, we should always be careful.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree with you more.We are expected to show our Chinese virtues here.At least,we should take our responsibility not to leave bad impressions to local people.Although Mr Sun can still graduate from NUS,I'm afraid he will have difficulty getting a job in future.
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