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 | chucky 2009-09-06 13:08 | | | Don't forget they started it with a racial hate crime. The students and teachers blatantly made fun of his race and ethnicity long before he blew up. Did you think he would just shrug off those personal attacks over things he could not control? They were no angels either. If he had to kill someone it should've been those in his classroom, not the bystanders that had nothing to do with him. Believe me, I have suffered like he did and even now. As an asian guy, you're already pre-judged by your peers and it happens all the time. Also since the asian man is naturally physically smaller and more frail, he is an easy target, as I was. You don't see big black guys getting picked on do you? Even in the military, I get harassed more by my superiors simply because I'm asian. I get yelled at for things I didn't do, and when a big black guy fesses up, my superior shuts his lips and says "Oh." and that's the end of it. Happens all the time even after I get out. No fair treatment.
It's bad enough that most women prefer non-asians. It's bad enough that every new white guy I encounter always has something smart to say about the asian stereotypes. And its even worse when all you want to do is get by in life, but you're being stopped by evil, cocky, and rude people who get off on your suffering. Sure, you can get by without a girlfriend, and maybe even without friends. But when you're being made fun of for something you can't control, everyone becomes an enemy. Every taunt, insult, and shove gets translated to "kill me if you can, weak-ass." It's a fact, and if you fail to understand that, you'll keep on asking yourself "why did he do it?" and you'll never find the answer that's in front of you. It was so obvious.
Keep living in your illusionary world where all races are equal, Keep laughing at those "harmless" racial jokes that your friends keep spewing, keep laughing at the poor asian kid that your friends play pranks on. Keep thinking that you've got nothing to do with it because all you did was laugh innocently, keep turning a blind eye to the truth and things like this will happen.
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| to Phil 2007-04-19 19:54 | | | Phil 2007-04-18 19:06
"When they are in a position to attend school in the U.S., they rarely seek out or speak with their classmates......"
You raised a good point but a bad view from your cultural aspect.
Many Asian students came to US with extremely heavy financial burden, some borrowed money from whole village or all family members or loan or all of parents' saving. Therefore obtaining a good academic grade is priority than winning awards in basketball or salsa dance, or being a life & soul of a cocaine party or sex orgy.
Culturally Asian people are respectful to others by being reserved & polite than wildy outspoken. Occasionally we saw some very outgoing & ambitious Asians who outshine all the locals, unfortunately these sorts tend to attract unnecessory jealousy and hatred from the locals that they distance themselves from these star Asian students.
Therefore, Asians students of either ends get the same biased treatment from the locals, it's the local who have to learn patiently and reasonably with the foreign students, so that their own lives can even be enriched without stepping out of the country with a passport.
It's surely wrong for the locals to feel that Asian students have no use for other students, if you look at the cultural colors in Asia, US culture paints only one color in the Asian keleidoscope.
It's bad for Western students to think that a quiet or reserved student is mad or stupid. For certain shy students, interacting & dealing with loud mouths, jokes or constant sarcasm is an extreme mental pressure. Especially once the shy ones gather enough courage to approach the extrovert, but met with rejection or humiliation, this can spell a big blow to the fragile esteem, that is how some eventually transform into revenge & anger.
From experience, I notice the Western kids are brought up to use humiliation/insult on others to deal with unfamiliar situation. I've ever seen how a 4 yrs old caucasian toddler hit an african same age with toy while giggling away, and yet she would hold hand gently with another caucasian toddler happily without hitting him. Education is usually missing here already at this stage.
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| ryx 2007-04-19 19:13 | | | Hahn 2007-04-18 18:24
"...was not the media that was leading the charge against the Chinese guy. It was the Internet."
Hahn, good try. You people are just simply incapable of keeping facts straight, is it so pathological that you think being manipulative is a born nature?
Chiang came to ABC news to clear his name after learning it from the internet where he received death threats, how did his personal data leak into internet? Suspect 1) University professors, suspect 2) Police, suspect 3) his classmates. These're the suspects who leaked his info to media and internet. What the media did was totally irresponsible, either they picked the false info from police or internet WITHOUT evidence or BEFORE facts were was confirmed. And this false news had already circulated all over globe via the US newsagents such as AP, Reuters stationed in Europe and Asia that the shooter was a Chinese national. If Chiang didn't come quick enough to a news station to clear his name, he could have been shot dead by the US police on the spot like what happened in London about that Brazilian guy. Remember suspense is still in the air of a 2nd shooter.
Apparently one news agent called Chicago SunTimes published all his personal details in the press, other countries' local news allied with US newsagents just transmit the same copy all around the world, leading to many condemnation on the Chinese nationals for no reasons.
The first newsagent should at least offer Chiang an apology, if not, Chiang should press charges against them for breach of personal rights and confidentiality to public. Then we'll know who ( 3 suspects mentioned above) exactly had leaked his info to the media.
Though this error is small compared to the loss of those lives, it's obvious of the intentional error made judging by the obsession of US media bias for China.
No wonder you people are so schizophrenic about life outside US, thanks to your manipulative media who acts like god and battery brains because you people have none.
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| great 2007-04-19 16:12 | | | Hahn:
A great display of your two cents worth of linguistic capability.
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| Hahn 2007-04-19 14:10 | | | And to those of you who demand an apology from the US media because they reported that it was a Chinese person responsible for the shootings:
I guess you'll get it at the same time that CCTV issues it's apology to all US citizens for reporting the other morning that the person responsible was a "meiguoren."
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| Income Gap 2007-04-19 13:50 | | | This is the problem in the US, this guy is angry because the rich is getting everything. He is driven by hatred of all the rich kids around him. And the US kept saying "income disparity in China". Ha, this one for you.
To solve the problem, the US should become a socialist state and get Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to donate their personal aeroplane so that the rest of these guys could afford bicycles!
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| correction 2007-04-18 23:54 | | | the last one should be 655,000, not 300,000, in the past 4 years.
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| Bharatvarsha 2007-04-18 23:27 | | | If you cause the deaths of 30 people - you're a monster.
If you cause the deaths of 300 people - you're a terrorist.
If you cause the death of 30,000 people - you're a leader.
If you cause the death of 300,000.....you're U.S. president.
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| Hahn 2007-04-18 23:11 | | | @AC
"That poor fellow was an American."
If a person of Chinese origin goes to another country and becomes a citizen of said country... People in China will claim that person as being "Chinese."
For example:
I.M. Pei designed the glass pyramids at the Louvre.
David Ho developed the "cocktail" strategy for fighting AIDS.
Chien-Shiung Wu worked on the Manhattan Project.
Chinese will say "they are Chinese."
I say, what colour is their passport? Blue? Red?
Looking at their passports:
All were/are American citizens.
We are all ready to claim people as our own when they do great things. However when they do horrible things, we are quick to say they were influenced by their new country.
Such is an easy life.
@Friendly Fire 2007-04-18 21:22
Did you actually go and see the site? Did you look at what ABCNews is reporting?
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| mask 2007-04-18 21:54 | | | what a pity!!
what a shame we are as a Asian
perhaps , we should reform the structure of our education, which means that find the right way lead to the youth to contact our society.
and our reaction is very furious.
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