When I was an university student, I heard of many stories about Uygur students fighting with Chinese students, DongBei students fighting with Teochow (Chaozhou) students, Cantonese students fighting with HuBei students… <\/p>\n
Birds of a feather flock together. Strongly hold people the bonds of having common memories and customs, eating similar food and speaking the same accent. <\/p>\n
But sometimes there are exceptions.<\/p>\n
I met a young Chinese student, Xiao Wang, few days ago. He studies in a Singapore private university, a university running UK and Australian degree programs. Striving to build a regional education hub, Singapore government encourages these universities reach out to recruit students from developing countries. Xiao Wang’s school has students from China, Vietnam, Russia, Africa and many others places.<\/p>\n
Talking about life on campus, I asked him whether there was any fight in his school. <\/p>\n
He got excited in this topic.<\/p>\n
“We have many Mongolian students. “<\/p>\n
“Oh…?” I am a bit surprised. A country with a vast land, small population, north to China. <\/p>\n
“They are big, strong and haughty. Often bully our Chinese students. ” <\/p>\n
I’d thought he were talking about American students. <\/p>\n
“We were no match. We were defeated. ” <\/p>\n
Mongolian wrestling were flashing on my mind.<\/p>\n
“Luckily, we have helpers. ” <\/p>\n
Here came the bigger surprise.<\/p>\n
“Those black African guys helped us! They called those Mongolian students into the washroom. After a while, out came those Mongolian, crying. Hahaha…” He laughed, elatedly.<\/p>\n
“African and Chinese together beat those Mongolian. They dare not touch us now. ” <\/p>\n
There ended this tiny world war.<\/p>\n
“Some Chinese students mingle really well with those African.” He finally added.<\/p>\n
Why people from thousands miles away help Chinese fight with people who are from nearby country and of the same color?<\/p>\n
African and Chinese are brothers<\/a> — at least in this incident.<\/p>\n African<\/a>, China<\/a>, Singapore<\/a>, campus violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was an university student, I heard of many stories about Uygur students fighting with Chinese students, DongBei students fighting with Teochow (Chaozhou) students, Cantonese students fighting with HuBei students… Birds of a feather flock together. Strongly hold people the bonds of having common memories and customs, eating similar food and speaking the same accent. … Continue reading Tiny world war on campus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound-of-my-mind","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}