{"id":1189,"date":"2018-04-01T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2018\/04\/01\/chinese-netizens-furious-at-racist-french-nursery-rhyme\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T07:49:42","slug":"chinese-netizens-furious-at-racist-french-nursery-rhyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-netizens-furious-at-racist-french-nursery-rhyme\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Netizens Furious At Racist French Nursery Rhyme"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nurse<\/a>ry rhyme sung in a French kindergarten has been criticised online for being racist towards Chinese people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A nursery rhyme sung in a French kindergarten has been criticised online for being racist towards Chinese people.<\/p>\n

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A nursery rhyme taught in a Paris kindergarten has been banned by the French authorities after causing a storm online. Photo credit: Weibo<\/p>\n

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The song, titled Zhang, My Little Chinese, was taught at an unnamed school in Aubervilliers, a northeastern suburb of Paris, for more than a decade, China News Service reported<\/a> on Monday. Despite its longevity, a row started online after \u201can Asian parent\u201d posted a video of it on Facebook on December 26, French news<\/a>paper Le Figaro reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was not clear who had produced the video. Nonetheless, the furor that followed prompted<\/a> France\u2019s education authorities to ban the song, the Chinese report said, without elaborating.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The original Facebook post was widely circulated online and picked up by several anti-racism campaign groups. In China<\/a>, internet users reacted angrily to the song, which includes lines such as \u201cZhang squats down to eat rice\u201d, \u201chis eyes are so small, awfully small\u201d, and \u201chis head is swaying like a ping pong ball bouncing around\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo credit: weibo<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have zero tolerance for things related to national dignity,\u201d a person wrote on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIf they continue to teach and spread such hatred and discrimination<\/a>, the children will not grow up with health<\/a>y minds,\u201d another person said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Others said that anyone who had been angered by the racist lyrics should consider their own prejudices.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe refer to Japanese, Korean and Western people using racist terms. Shouldn\u2019t we think about our own problem of discrimination as well?\u201d one person said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dominique Sopo, president of SOS Racisme, a French group that seeks to fight racism and discrimination, was among the people who shared the social media<\/a> post.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He described the offending rhyme (according to the Facebook translation<\/a>) as: \u201cFull of clich\u00e9s, with all that it implies. It reduces the Chinese (and therefore, in the minds of many, people of Asian origin) with a few summary features.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to the Figaro report, Les Ateliers du Pr\u00e9au, the French company that produced the song, said it would apologize to the children and their parents when they returned to school after the New Year holiday, and withdraw it from future use.<\/span><\/p>\n

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