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An anti-discrimination bout staged in China's cyberspace
By Sophie Beach (EastSouthWestNorth Forum)
Updated: 2005-09-12 09:57 Indeed. What then is so special about this forum post? That was because a
second character named "Northern Latitude 67 degrees 3 minutes" (hereafter
abbreviated as NT) appeared on the scene and totally turned the situation upside
down.
NT's objective was clear: he wanted to establish that Yi Yeqing is just a
nouveau riche person who is pretending that she has made it into the
'upper-class' and as such is unqualified to speak for the true 'upper-class.'
"You can be prejudiced and that is your problem, but you must not wave the
banner of our 'upper-class.' We in the upper-class society do not believe that
we are more noble than others. We respect everyone, even a beggar."
Yi Yeqing spoke of her family wealth and connections to famous wealthy
families. "My sister has more than 60 million US dollars." As for herself, "I
know the wife of shipping magnate XXX and we know their family well."
NT said, "The family and friends of XXX do not appear to have heard of anyone
with the first name Yi. Of course, maybe I don't know everything since I don't
know XXX's family that well. They are just nouveau rich trying to squeeze
into upper society, and we don't care much for people like that." And then,
"Your sister only has 60 million US dollars? She is pathetically poor!"
As for his own credentials, NT disclosed that among China's "top society,"
there are six families. "You may be rich, but you will never be in top society.
Your last name is not Shen, not Zhou, not Li, not Zhang, not Gu and not Chen.
You are not one of the six families. You will never know what is 'top society'!
... my last name is Zhou ... the Zhou family of Ru'nan. If you know anything
about top society, you will know what I mean."
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