This incident is getting huge play in the Chinese and Chinese language press.
They see it as just a repeat of last year’s widespread beatings of Asian students at Samuel Fel High School.
The preception held by Asian students in Philadelphia schools is that since all the administrators and security personnel are black, they don’t care what happens to anyone not black.
Last year, Asian students wrote letters and petitions, staged demonstrations, and attended board meeting trying to get the school to at least acknowledge there was a problem and protect them. They were ignored.
What the English language news reports has failed to mention is that the 2nd student was beaten because he ran to the aid of the 1st student and that it wasn’t 10 students but more than 20, most joining in after the beatings began.
I just cannot imagine what the Chinese must be thinking. Their citizenry come over to learn, get assaulted, and now get ignroed and shoved aside. And go figure, the Asian students are the correct ones. I wonder what they think of whites who kowtow to these bullies. I wonder if whetehr or not this will result in a backlash. Something has to give. I know that FReepers here dislike the Chinese and China at times, but this is horrible and inexcusable.