Chapter 5 My attitude towards the Carrefour incident

In the past two days, there have been constant phone calls, text messages, and emails asking me about my attitude towards the Carrefour incident.As an ordinary teacher, I don't know why I have to answer such questions.It seems that North China is so big that there is no room for a quiet hot pot.As a last resort, I had no choice but to be lenient when I confessed, and stricter when I resisted. 1. I know very little about the Carrefour incident. I basically learned about it from the Internet and people who asked me about it.It is said that it is a shareholder of Carrefour, a large French supermarket chain, and has contributed funds to support Tibetan independence forces. Moreover, the French government and the public have behaved very obscenely and shamelessly during the Olympic torch relay.Some patriotic people in China initiated a boycott of Carrefour, calling on everyone not to shop at Carrefour.According to the latest news, the French government has spent huge sums of money to support Carrefour, and will use substantial price cuts to attract Chinese people to flock to Carrefour, to slap the Chinese people in the face, and to disintegrate the nationalist camp.I don't know if it's true or not.

2. I know that there is such a thing as Carrefour in the world. It is said that monks can know the world without going out.But I assure you, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and III bastards, I've never been to a Carrefour, and I don't know where any of the Carrefours are located or where the doors open.Of course, not having been to Carrefour doesn’t mean it’s an honor, nor does it mean that one day in the future, I won’t go there to buy toilet paper to urinate or something.Many relatives, friends and colleagues around me have been to Carrefour, so I believe that this supermarket is a strong and successful enterprise. I wish all the legitimate enterprises in the world prosperity and prosperity.I'm just saying, since I've never been there, I don't need to "boycott" it at this moment. Wouldn't that be a kind of performance?Or is it cheaper to pick up a ready-made "Patriot"?I haven't been to "Wal-Mart", nor "Guiyou", nor "Great Wall Club", can you say that I just boycott them?So tabloid reporters please stop staring at where I go shopping, okay?

3. There is no political reason why I don’t go to Carrefour or Wal-Mart.I basically don't buy anything, and live a life of "no consumption" all the year round.Eat whatever is given at home, and wear whatever is given to you.I often have a few taels of silver in my pocket, which is used to pay for drinks when I meet with friends.Occasionally, I go to the mall, but nine out of ten are farmers' markets.I heard that Carrefour is good and cheap, but I haven't been there, so I dare not comment.But I don't think there is any place in the world with better quality and lower price than China's farmer's market.For meals, a plate of hot-boiled mutton is 2 yuan, a bottle of beer is 1 yuan, and sometimes it is free.Leather shoes, 28 yuan a pair, I can cut it down to 18.Steamed buns, 30 cents a piece, made from Shandong Jin noodles.There are rows of "dollar stores" for other common daily necessities, ranging from wall watches and batteries to mops and desk lamps for less than 10 yuan.If the young couple rents a house for the newly married, then spending 500 yuan, the new house can be decorated in a decent way.Prices have risen a lot due to inflation recently, but the farmers market is still quite cheap.I just spent a lot of money there yesterday. I bought 3 books for 10 yuan, a pair of pineapples for 5 yuan, a bunch of water radishes with emerald green tassels for 1 yuan and 5 yuan, and 1 yuan for 1 yuan. A catty of freshly baked hot pancakes, 1 catty of hot soy milk for 1 yuan, 1 plump pork trotter for 2 yuan, 3 cucumbers for 1 yuan 6, 4 cucumbers for 1 yuan 2 a steamed bun.A total of 32 yuan was spent, and the spirit and materials were complete, and the food and books could not be finished in a day.If this money is in Japan, you can't even afford a bowl of soba noodles.Why does the United States force us to appreciate the renminbi?They see such a strong purchasing power of RMB, they hate it!With 32 dollars in the United States, you ask them if they can buy these things?

4. Our middle-aged and elderly friends may not participate in the boycott of Carrefour by patriotic young people, mainly college students, but we should not pour cold water on it.Boycotting certain foreign goods can never achieve the goal of strengthening the country and resisting humiliation, but it is at least an expression of patriotism.Our teenagers are not allowed to do this, and they are not allowed to do that. If even such a small expression is stifled, it is not "human rights" and "democracy".Why don't you rational scholars pour cold water on the "expression" of the foreign devils to the Olympic torch?It just so happened that the students ran to stand guard for Carrefour for free, so you came out rational.This reminds me of the "December 9th" that year, when the Japanese invaders occupied the three eastern provinces, but some scholars criticized the students for being irrational, saying that it is the greatest patriotism for you to go back and study hard.Why don't they persuade the devils to go back and study hard?

5. For patriotic young people, we must treat others' cold water correctly.Some cold water is poured by traitors, but most of the cold water is indeed out of kindness and kindness.There are many forms of patriotism. Different groups and different occupations will adopt different methods. Don't force others to be the same as yourself.Just like asking Lu Xun, Lao She, and Qian Zhongshu to go bayonet with the devils, that is not patriotic, but pitting the country.As far as I know, many people are still used to shopping at Carrefour, so let them go, just a few words of publicity, and it is better not to forcefully stop them.Exactly how much Carrefour is related to Tibetan independence needs to be further verified. The boycott should not be regarded as the ultimate goal, and it is enough to beat them.In the long run, the Chinese people are even more friendly to the French people, and they are not intentionally hostile to China, but the information they get is different from ours.If one day we get the information that Marseille is a colony forcibly occupied by the French, the people of Marseille are beaten and raped by the police in Paris every day, and the people of Marseille insist on independence, maybe we will actively support "Masse independence".

6. Historically, students have always been the horns of the times, and they are always at the forefront of the times.Students' actions are often reckless and naive, and need to be guided and corrected.But without this recklessness and childishness, there will be no subsequent stability and maturity, and there will be no progress and transcendence.The great leader Chairman Mao said: "Students are always right!" Mao Zedong is the most dialectical, but he said such extreme words that are not "dialectical".He knew that students would make many mistakes, but why did he say that?Let us all three generations, old, middle-aged and young, think about it together. This will help us think about and deal with every patriotic action.This is the thinking question for today.