"I mentioned my race because middle-aged white women get mugged, too, as we are perceived as being weak and an easy target.
Please don't wear the colour of your skin as your God-given right to be afraid of everything that moves.
Your position of "those <insert group> will beat me up because I'm Chinese" is just as ethnophobic as "let's beat him up because he's Chinese".
There are hundreds of thousands of Asian (and white and black and brown and red and yellow and every color of the human rainbow) people in Paris every single day -- and nearly 100% of them get through their day without incident. Don't assume that you're so special that you'll be singled out."
-Sunshine 817
Tampa, Florida
(Level 6 Contributor on Trip Advisor)
https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g187147-i14-k9783303-Missing_a_plane_flight_from_or_to_Paris_CDG-Paris_Ile_de_France.html#77463156
Reply #60
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It's personally painful to read posts like this one. I don't think I've read a person scolding someone else in such a condescending, contemptuous manner. (On the other hand, I don't engage in Internet chat-forums. And I will not, either, if this is how people behave).
Living in a "blue state," I didn't think people could say such things in public.
I canceled my account to Trip Advisor after finding out that they allowed this post to remain, while repeatedly removing attempts to respond to it*--in essence, punishing the victim (of verbal abuse) and rewarding the perpetrator.
TA is, I'm guessing, a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
Strange world...
Not so strange:
Maybe now I understand a bit better how many people in "red states" feel about certain matters.
* Tell an African-American traveling to South Carolina months after a nearby church has been bombed this.
Why do you think you have a God-given right to judge and criticize: (1) to be self-righteous, contemptuous (..."afraid of everything that moves") and mocking ("Don't assume you're so special...") and (2)--without knowledge of the facts in question--state that a person who fears for his/her own personal safety is as extremist, or racist, as those who would beat someone up based on his/her race?
Is it because you are white and have money?
107 reported attacks on Chinese workers in Aubervilliers, a district in North Paris, since mid-November 2015, including one man beaten to death in early August.
(How many unreported incidents is anyone's guess).
A Chinese student beaten and kicked on the Metro (no one helped) and subjected to racist taunts two weeks ago.
27 Chinese tourists robbed before boarding a board for Charles deGaulle Airport (tear-gassed) in early August.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/21/chinese-immigrants-demand-protection-from-paris-muggers/
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1998400/chinese-tourists-robbed-near-paris-airport?utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign=SCMPSocialNewsfeed
http://shanghaiist.com/2016/04/14/chinese_student_assaulted_paris_metro.php
Sunshine 817 and Trip Advisor believe that anyone of Asian ancestry traveling to Paris has absolutely no right to be concerned for his/her safety there.
A later thread on "Safety of Chinese in Paris" (with 35 or so replies) was entirely removed, at whose request I am uncertain. It might have been very helpful to Asians and others. There was no profanity or heated discussion.
