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It’s not “interfering withpublic property” but rather vandalizing it. In addition, look up in a dictionary before you use a strong word such as nationalistic, which means “having strong patriotic feelings, especially a belief in the superiority of one*s own country over others”, where in that graffiti did you see condescension or self-claimed superiority? “And someone please educate me the purpose of this”, I feel enlighten is a much more appropriate choice of word. “Increase tension between HK students and Chinese students”, please replace Chinese with Mainland Chinese since HK students are also Chinese, both by nationality and ethnic background. And please check for typo every time before you post something online. (Which I did this time so Baidu doesn*t screw up my formatting.)
Enough for phrasing and grammar, let’s move on to this action in itself, I think you should understand that it is an expression of patriotism, on a very special day such as the National Day. It is a response to the previous act of defacement done tothe Cairn by over-enthusiastic HKSA, and the text “PRC <3 HK” shows nothing other than a warm embrace, a heartening wish expressed by the PRC students that despite our differences in belief and political inclination, we are still family. I can’t see how a sensible compatriot could deem this as a public humiliation.
Your only seemingly valid point here is that as UBCers, we should share a responsibility to preserve public property. Then again this is discredited by your own words, whereby you also admitted that nobody really cares if the Cairn gets defaced since it has happened too frequently (or maybe only the Cairn keeper from EUS does). The reality is that UBCers see defacing the Cairn as a form of freedom of expression, and I am sure this exact desire to express ourselves made UBC a vibrant community it is. I really don’t see the difference between faculty pride and national pride since in a multicultural community such as UBCers, those two are simply two groups of people that should be granted the same right to express themselves freely.
And your point that we should not let those uninvolved in this matter to know more about it, that simply makes no sense to me at all. It is not as if we do not deface the Cairn, the majority of UBCers would know nothing about the protest happening in HK right now, despite overwhelming media coverage every second as we speak now. I would be even more disappointed by my fellow UBCers if they were such a bunch of ignorant young adults who care nothing more than hockey and what to eat for dinner. I’d rather see them actively debating the merits and demerits of such a campaign, in which process they get to know a little bit more about the truth between Mainland China and HK (hopefully), and we also get better understood by the school student body.
On a side note, I feel rather offended by your excessive use of the exclamation marks. It might just be the way you’re used to talk, but while it is one thing to disagree with something and provide a list of reasons for your dissent, it is another to assume an almighty point of view and blame others for what they have done while using a tone that is as if you know all things better than them.
I stand by my words and that*s why I am not opening a new account just to vent my frustration. Please don*t feel offended and I am open to your response.
It’s not “interfering withpublic property” but rather vandalizing it. In addition, look up in a dictionary before you use a strong word such as nationalistic, which means “having strong patriotic feelings, especially a belief in the superiority of one*s own country over others”, where in that graffiti did you see condescension or self-claimed superiority? “And someone please educate me the purpose of this”, I feel enlighten is a much more appropriate choice of word. “Increase tension between HK students and Chinese students”, please replace Chinese with Mainland Chinese since HK students are also Chinese, both by nationality and ethnic background. And please check for typo every time before you post something online. (Which I did this time so Baidu doesn*t screw up my formatting.)
Enough for phrasing and grammar, let’s move on to this action in itself, I think you should understand that it is an expression of patriotism, on a very special day such as the National Day. It is a response to the previous act of defacement done tothe Cairn by over-enthusiastic HKSA, and the text “PRC <3 HK” shows nothing other than a warm embrace, a heartening wish expressed by the PRC students that despite our differences in belief and political inclination, we are still family. I can’t see how a sensible compatriot could deem this as a public humiliation.
Your only seemingly valid point here is that as UBCers, we should share a responsibility to preserve public property. Then again this is discredited by your own words, whereby you also admitted that nobody really cares if the Cairn gets defaced since it has happened too frequently (or maybe only the Cairn keeper from EUS does). The reality is that UBCers see defacing the Cairn as a form of freedom of expression, and I am sure this exact desire to express ourselves made UBC a vibrant community it is. I really don’t see the difference between faculty pride and national pride since in a multicultural community such as UBCers, those two are simply two groups of people that should be granted the same right to express themselves freely.
And your point that we should not let those uninvolved in this matter to know more about it, that simply makes no sense to me at all. It is not as if we do not deface the Cairn, the majority of UBCers would know nothing about the protest happening in HK right now, despite overwhelming media coverage every second as we speak now. I would be even more disappointed by my fellow UBCers if they were such a bunch of ignorant young adults who care nothing more than hockey and what to eat for dinner. I’d rather see them actively debating the merits and demerits of such a campaign, in which process they get to know a little bit more about the truth between Mainland China and HK (hopefully), and we also get better understood by the school student body.
On a side note, I feel rather offended by your excessive use of the exclamation marks. It might just be the way you’re used to talk, but while it is one thing to disagree with something and provide a list of reasons for your dissent, it is another to assume an almighty point of view and blame others for what they have done while using a tone that is as if you know all things better than them.
I stand by my words and that*s why I am not opening a new account just to vent my frustration. Please don*t feel offended and I am open to your response.
