[Walks and Talks] Are you going to Carrefour that day?


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Carrefour has been rolled into a campaign mixed up with both boycott and anti-boycott.

Recently, a widely circulated message writes

We hope you are able to boycott Carrefour at least on 1 May, to deliver, by the empty Carrefour that day, one message to the western world: Chinese shouldn’t be humiliated! Chinese people shouldn’t be insulted!
The boycott against Carrefour is going to spreading all over the country, and we anticipate your presence! Thank you.

Carrefour, the French retail giant, is the newest target on the list of what cyber-nationalists in China hate and aim at. Cell phone text messages calling on boycotts are popping up, over 5000 net cafes in China, as Daqi.com summed up, have been rife with posts against Carrefour, and quite a few radical netizens have already made the slogans into practice.

The boycott is supposed to be caused by the recent grief and violence the Olympic torch relay suffered from in France and the saying that a big shareholder of Carrefour, LVMH group, has donated money to the Dalai Lama.

The original text of the widely circulated appeal also explains the cause of the campaign,

The Olympic torch relay that just ended in Paris is not as peaceful as most of Chinese know about. Let’s see what French and its government have done when Chinese carried the torch, a symbol of peace and friendship into their territory.
1. Before the relay, a French TV station called on people to protest on street for the reason that they “don’t want Chinese flags flaunting all over”.
2. The torch was forced to extinguish for 4 times under the violent disruptions of Tibet separatists.
3. The French police in charge of security simply stood by to see the separatists snatching the torch, and striking the disabled torch carrier.
4. At where the torch went by, hordes of French waved the flag of separatists, clamoring “Free Tibet’, “Shame on China” to protest against China.
5. Groups of young men even scrambled the Chinese students’ Five-star flags and tore them up, two sides in conflict.
6. When the sacred fire passed by the City Hall of Paris, the banners and slogans of pro-Tibet independence were hung out and all the alderman put on the pro-separatism badges, a behavior that made the planned ceremony there cancelled.
7. The major media in France reviewed the torch relay with such headlines— Fiasco in Paris(Figaro) and A Slap on China

Furthermore, QQ groups all over China were set up to recruit boycott activists. A list shows that places including Chongqing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, more than 20 areas totally, have joined this cyber campaign, during which netizens can communicate by the IM tool to make the whole protest more organizational.

What is the topic?

This week:

Do you think it is a right move to boycott Carrefour?

Will you go to Carrefour on May 1st?

What's your comment on this issue?

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posted @ 2008-04-18 15:14 Vitamin_C 阅读(553) 评论(7)  编辑  收藏 所属分类: Walks and Talks 网摘收藏

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#1楼 2008-04-18 15:27 | 漠沫
OMG
we do need not to be so extreme!!!

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#2楼 2008-04-19 00:00 | OokingoO
All our need is just living in our own life.
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#3楼 2008-04-19 15:51 | 十子
I think it is not a right move to boycott Carrefour. Carrefour's stuffs are also Chinese. The majority of products were made by chinese resourses and made in
China also. Boycott action seems unreasonable ank lack of consideration.
Today I received some massages in my QQ which
suggested we can make troubles in visiting Carrefour
on May 1st.I think we just like the terrior who made the trobles in March 14th.
I think what we really need to do is being stronger to host a best Olmpic games.
Knowledge is powerful weapon.We must use our knowlege to change the situation.We must show our humble and smart to all over the world.
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#4楼 2008-04-21 09:06 | wm328
to be frankly ,i will not gp to CARRERFOUR! We should let the franchman see our unity.it's not the matter of boycott,it's the matter of dignity!Support our country ,support the goods which are made in China! There is one MOTHER in our mind ,that is China.We should protect her as well as she protected us during our past peaceful happiness time!
GO OLYMPIC! GO CHINA!
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#5楼 2008-04-24 23:37 | doremixc
in the long run, boycott carrefour is not unrealistic ,but it can be carried out in a short time.so i support the boycott civilizedly in short time,
long live China!
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#6楼 2008-04-25 09:56 | lifeinworld
we should think twice before action!
and act more rationally and civilizedly

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#7楼 2008-04-28 09:51 | howard
Since the Olympic torch relay in Paris was unsuccessful ,it caused thousands of chinese people from home and abord to join in the boycott group,carrefour is the biggest target on the list of what cyber-nationalists in China hate and aim at ,I think all Chinese people loves their country deeply, it seems reasonable for them to show their indignation about the incident ,but we need to keep our mind clear enough ,in one side ,France is a democratic country ,the French government is too democratic to get the powerful authority compared to Chinese government , move to boycott Carrefour gives a heavy pressure to French government,they had to give in but aren't sincerely convinded,on the other hand , let's tee carrefour itself ,it has above 99% employee for domestic,most of its procucts are from domestic too,discrimination against goods from carrefour seems unreasonable and unhelpful, but carrefour occupies the market of China,it causes a lot of small shop to shut up thier doors ,the ower of shop may become the employee of carrefour ,I think it is painful !We need to think why they can occupy our market but we cann't, actually, our Chinese companies are hard enough to invest in other countries , it's beyond your imagine! why? why? why? The most important thing I can confrim is other country all worry about our companise contain politicis, it meens our companies to invest in other countries not only for business but also have political target!For exemple ,our govern is always declare Olympic games have no relation with policis ,but when we heard the president of xxxx country won't attend the Beijing Olympic Games ,we will make representations to xxx, our govern is powerful enough inside but not powerful enough in the world ,otherwise Tibet andTanwan issue will get to an end already ,the priority we(Chinese) need to do is to hold the Beijing Olympic Games successfully to show our hospitality and culture of our country to the world people ,we must seize the opportunity ,I think only the "winner "can have the authority to" say a lot"!

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