Source: Global Times
Recently, a number of American media exposed a shocking scene in the city of Los Angeles, the United States: the local freight train was not only robbed and looted by the surrounding people, but also the scene was a mess, and the packaging boxes of the goods were piled up on the tracks of the train, just like the scene in the doomsday movie.
However, the spit of an American journalist with a "mouth open" about this scandal in the United States has angered a large country of 1.3 billion people on the other side of the ocean.
Because this reporter said: "At first glance, I thought this was India".
As shown in the chart below, the journalist, Lauren Frayer, is a correspondent for npr, a well-known mainstream media outlet in the United States, national public radio (NPR).
Recently, after seeing the news that the freight train in Los Angeles was robbed and looted, the reporter forwarded the matter on his social account while complaining: "At first glance, I thought this was India."
However, this phrase quickly hurt Indians whose national pride was exploding. Many Indian netizens believe that the US reporter's remarks are discriminating against Indians, "insulting India", and "racism", and behind it is the sinister purpose of "Western media smearing India", asking her to delete the post and apologize.
For example, the Indian media personality in the picture below said in her program that the remarks of Lauren Frayer, a reporter for NPR in the United States, are "anti-India" and a kind of demonization of India by the Western media.
Some Indian nationalists also pulled out Lauren Frayer's previous post attacking India's discriminatory treatment of ethnic minorities such as Muslims, saying the American journalist's constant "smear" of India was "fearful of India shaking the economic and geopolitical hegemony of international anti-India blocs."
Under the tidal wave of criticism, Lauren Frayer had to delete the post. But she didn't apologize, saying only that "I deleted the post because it wasn't considered." This, in turn, further angered Indian netizens, believing that she did not recognize her racial discrimination in India at all, and deleted the post only to be perfunctory.
What is even more amusing is that a large number of Indian netizens also imitated the American reporter's "insult to India" tone of "at first glance, I thought this was India", and posted "insult to the United States".
As shown in the image below, a well-known filmmaker on the Indian Network collected a batch of dirty pictures of American streets and then posted a mocking post: "At first glance, I thought this was America." Looking at it again, I realized that this is indeed The United States",
His post garnered nearly 20,000 likes.
An Indian netizen approached a picture of a woman in California on the street and wrote: At first glance, I thought it was California. Guess what... It really is! ”
An Indian nationalist account also found a video of drug addicts walking like zombies on the dirty and dark streets of the United States before, and said sarcastically, "At first glance, I thought this was a trailer for a zombie movie."
Some Indian netizens are not even satisfied with "insulting the United States", and they have also pulled their neighbors and sworn enemies Pakistan into it, wanting to "black and black".
"At first glance, I thought it was Pakistan, but wait, it's actually New York," one post that garnered more than 1,000 likes wrote.
In addition, some Indian netizens also "do the opposite", using this "at first glance, I thought it was XXX" sentence form, praising India.
For example, the following Indian netizen posted an Indian tourism propaganda film, writing: "At first glance I thought this was India, but in fact this is really an extraordinary India."
However, Lauren Frayer, an American journalist who triggered this round of Indian netizens' "insulting the United States" frenzy, did not respond to the matter again, but changed the topic and forwarded a message about the epidemic in India.
But in the comment area, many angry Indian netizens are still venting their dissatisfaction with this American journalist and the United States, saying that "I heard that you in the United States infect 1 million people every day" and "India is 100 times better than you in the United States anyway."
What the? You ask Chinese netizens what should they think of this?
What else do you think? First of all, the "insulting beauty" materials found by Indian netizens are well preserved.