About the murder of two Chinese students in Los Angles

I was shocked when I heard about the news. I knew that the security in L.A. is quite bad, but I never consider such terrible things would happen on students.

In the early morning at 11^th April, two NSC students were shot in their BMW. The police said that they were murdered during an attempt carjacking near campus. Both victims, who have been identified as graduate students from China, were declared dead at California Hospital.

That is what happened, but it is not all. What shocks me most is the response of Chinese netizens. They did not show any sympathy towards the victims. On the contrary, they only focus on the two words: ‘abroad’ and ‘BMW’. Just for the two words, they believe that both of them must be son and daughter of corrupt officials or crooked business people who do not deserve sympathy. While the Chinese netizens was cursing the victims and celebrate for their death, more than one thousand NSC students were holding flowers and candles in the wind, mourning and praying.

There must be something wrong with the public.

From some point, the conflict between the rich and the poor, the people and the official was much sharper. People always assume that they are social vulnerable groups and bullied by the ‘second generations’. To let their anger out, they have used to attach labels on others. Teachers must have molested girls and made lots of money from their students; doctors must have deceived patients; officials must be corrupted. And now, there is one more label: abroad students must be son and daughter of corrupt officials or crooked business people! (Hi, guys, are you shot while lying?)When people with labels were trapped into plight, those internet mob just keep teasing and cheering. Their behavior has already beyond sanity.

The media is also unscrupulous. In the news, they only emphasize that the victims is dead in BMW, hiding the truth that is an old second-hand car which is worth less than $10,000. They only emphasize that the victims live in a big house, hiding the truth that they share room with many to save money. What media want is to lead reader think the victims are “second generations”, so their newspaper will have a better selling and there will be more people to view their website. To achieve their aim, they even leave an untrue comment that NSC is “university for spoiled children”.

We do not know if we have already been attached such a label. We do not know if we were abandoned by our compatriot. I only wish, when distresses happen again, our compatriot won’t publish such a post.