If some tourist also asked me about some shootout that happened in my country I would bail ASAP too. Serial killer shit lol who begins a convo with “so what about that time yall killed students”
“Hey, what do you think about the 2020 antifa uprising where the antifa burned all America’s cities down and executed white parents and small business owners?”
My understanding is that most people in China don’t really care about the 1989 unrest and are perplexed as to why westerners make such a huge deal of it.
The “I talked to one person so now I’m an expert on the situation” school of historical anyalysis.
If some tourist also asked me about some shootout that happened in my country I would bail ASAP too. Serial killer shit lol who begins a convo with “so what about that time yall killed students”
Imagining a scenario where a Chinese tourist randomly brings up the Columbine massacre while they’re visiting
“Hey, what do you think about the 2020 antifa uprising where the antifa burned all America’s cities down and executed white parents and small business owners?”
“I think you’re a cop”.
I too would be scared talking to a patchouli oil scented, dreadlocked white boy anarchist.
My understanding is that most people in China don’t really care about the 1989 unrest and are perplexed as to why westerners make such a huge deal of it.