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How a Dutch kids' book sparked a Chinese backlash (www.dw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Players who land on square 42 of the Dutch game are instructed: "Ni Hao! Chinese tourists are blocking the bike lane. To avoid them, go back to square 39."

Members of the Chinese-Dutch community say it reinforces negative racial stereotypes and portrays Chinese people as a public nuisance.

A little tasteless I agree, they could have just said 'tourists' instead or simply have them doing anything else lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, there really are a lot of Chinese tourists around in NL, and groups of them do have an odd tendency to discuss things and look for guidance on their phones in the strangest places. Next to general tourist things I mean, like going to stop and look around at the top of a busy and fast moving escalator :) so I get why it ends up in a book. Is that racism?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, there really are a lot of Chinese tourists around in NL, and groups of them do have an odd tendency to discuss things and look for guidance on their phones in the strangest places. Next to general tourist things I mean, like going to stop and look around at the top of a busy and fast moving escalator :)

I totally agree and many people (including myself) have had bad interactions with chinese tourists, they can be quite rude at times and will often invade personal space which is extremely annoying. But I can say I have had bad experiences with American tourists too, but it would be unfair to say all Americans are like this and to propagate negative stereotypes is wrong, especially for a crappy board game.

Is that racism?

I don't think its racist, but it is kinda shitty. I mean why make this comment at all, they could have chosen so many different scenarios here and they went with this.