Comments | crispy47: hey guys, it's tragic even if it happened somewhere else

crispy47

hey guys, it's tragic even if it happened somewhere else

Apr 18, 2007 00:51

Danwei, a website that covers the Chinese media, has an article called Chinese media reacts to Virginia Tech shootings. It includes a translated excerpt of an post on Sina.com, a big Chinese web portal/forum/thing.If it were put into a political textbook more than a decade ago, this incident would probably have been used as evidence of the decay of ( Read more... )

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milkweeds00 April 19 2007, 20:21:27 UTC

I'd be surprised if Americans paid attention to a Chinese equivalent of this at all. I don't think most Americans wouldn't find a school shooting in China newsworthy, sadly.

Also, I don't know if I'd say the murderer wasn't an American, Natalie. He grew up in N. Virginia, been there since he was nine or eight I think. First generation definitely, but he was a legal resident and had been here for the majority of his life. I'd call that American, but maybe that's my personal definition.