Want to become a
writer at Eat My News? Here is an opportunity to join the Board of Young
Leaders Program by Eat My News. Click here to know more: bit.ly/boardofyoungleaders
All of us have received these whatsapp
forwards on our Oppo, Vivo and Realm phones telling us to ban Chinese products
in our day to day life. Not realizing that more than 60% of these phones that
Indians use to spread these messages is indeed Chinese.
All this started after Indian and Chinese
soldiers clashed at the Galwan valley region after Chinese troops claimed the
valley to be theirs. 20 Indian soldiers were killed and several other soldiers
were injured. China has not yet revealed the number of casualties on their
side.
The wave of love for the country spread all
over the nation and netizens took over the internet showering their immense
hate for China and Chinese products.
All this started right after ministers from
the ruling party urged the people to boycott Chinese products at an individual
level. All this is necessary for us to destabilize the Chinese economy as India
and China have been trading since ages.
A meme war started in which Indians showed
their anger towards China. A meme posted showed a picture of Barack Obama and
Chinese President, Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger from the show Winne
the Pooh. Since then, a hash-tag #winniethepooh has started to refer to Xi
Jinping.
People in Acts of Patriotism
People got so upset with China that they
even started to damage their own Chinese expensive products in the rage. A
video posted online showed a person throwing his television that belonged to a
Chinese company, from his balcony.
Some people even applauded the gut for his
immense patriotism but this is not what boycotting Chinese products means. If
we are damaging Chinese goods, we are damaging our own resources as we have
paid money to buy it.
The Chinese company got its due value and
we are left without are expensive appliances. If we really want to boycott
Chinese products then we should make sure to not buy any Chinese product in future.
There are various instances that expose the
ignorance of masses as they are ready to boycott Chinese products but are not
even aware who is the Chinese president. A group of BJP workers took their hate
for China on another level by trying to burn the poster of the president of
China.
But instead they burned the picture of Kim Jong-Un, the Supreme leader of North Korea. People are supporting oblivious facts right now and their ignorance is hilarious.
Amul Cartoons Creating Buzz
 |
Source:Indian Express |
Indians were outraged at twitter for
opposing Amul. Internet memers started a new hash-tag “#boycotttwitter”. This
virtual unity took a very serious form. People realized that Indians were ready
to boycott China and any person, organization or country that tried to support
China.
Many Indian celebrities have stopped using
Chinese goods and even asked their fans to do the same. Actor and model, Milind
Somani posted on twitter that he has stopped using the app tiktok as it is a
Chinese app.
Actor Arshad Warsi tweeted that he has consciously stopped using Chinese products and even though it will take time to get accustomed to this, one day he will be ‘Chinese free’. He even urged his fans to do the same.
Boycotting Chinese Food
Union minister Ramdas Athawale made a
bizzare statement by saying that Chinese foods should be banned and so should
be Chinese Restaurants. A lot of people blindly started to follow this trend as
well. Restaurant owners called his statement as ridiculous.
Anjan Chatterjee, the founder of Mainland
China restaurant chain rebutted, ”People should know that we are an Indian
company, serving food made by Indian chefs with Indian ingredients. Our chefs
who have worked with chains like Taj and ITC are all Indians”.
This issue was not left behind and hash-tags
like Indian-chinese and Gobimanchurian started trending. A user on twitter
tweeted that Chinese have not seen chowmein in their life.
Even though youngsters are criticized for
their straight forward approach, it cannot be denied that they are the ones who
are much more aware about the authentic news these days. Unlike the generation
before us, who forwards most of the content without understanding on social
media.
Some people even made satirical comments on
the ignorance of Indians in boycotting everything. A meme read that Nikhil
Chinapa should be boycotted as China is in his name. People are so naive that
they are even boycotting Indian movies like China town because it has China in
it.
 |
Source: Unofficial India\ facebook |
Written by - Trishla Gupta
Edited by - Adrija Saha
Social