What is Weibo like in the eyes of foreigners?

"Guide" lake, is a German, is the University of Munich, the Chinese professional postgraduate, he spent most of his time on the micro-blog. And one day he "complained" on Weibo: "If I say that China is still some imperfect, I was scolded as a ' smelly foreigner '; If I say China's development direction is right, it will be scolded as ' five cents '." But the most tragic thing is, I just changed a light bulb at home, was scolded a ' no meaning fool '. ”

On Weibo, if you see someone "blindly" praising Germany, Lake will feel strange: why do some people always like to boast foreign countries? Why do they always like to take a look in the mirror? Why can't we talk about the problem?

"You and the United States are big countries, I think you have to be confident." Rick said with a fluent Chinese smile.

　　this year's Lake is 32 years old, is a German, University of Munich, Chinese professional postgraduate, in 2005, he had as exchange students in Beijing Film Academy. In 2007, on his 26 birthday, he walked from Beijing to Xinjiang, 350 days, 4646 kilometers, then he wrote "hiking China".

Lake spends most of his time on Weibo, which is related to his master's thesis. Last year during the Spring Festival, he found that on the micro-blog on the Korean cold on the issue of a lot of people noisy, quite and fell into two factions. He felt strange: why was it so important? He wants to explore the hidden microblogging mood and social problems, and now the paper has come to an end and will reply next month.

Rick could not understand China's microblog mood. One day, he "complained" on Weibo: "I said China was still imperfect and was scolded as a foreigner." I said the direction of China's development is right, was scolded a ' foreign five cents '. Said Germany good, was scolded. Say Germany is not good, also be scolded. The most tragic thing is, I said in the home changed a light bulb, was scolded a ' no meaning fool '. ”

Lake's independent and objective attitude, humorous language, attracted more than 50,000 fans.

Germans are rigorous?

"You Germans are very rigorous." "Lake is often asked this question.

And lake would say, "You're sure you're not laughing at the Germans?"

There are people who send similar tweets online: "From 23 details to feel the German's rigorous, experience Germany's rise." "Here's a bunch of pictures and captions.

As soon as Lake saw it, he would "fight back," and the Germans said that most of these pictures and commentaries should be jokes? It is impossible for someone to take it seriously. "That's not rigorous," says Lake.

"Please don't send me any more disgusting tweets. What 173 days a year to work, what 23 details, the Germans do not allow pre-school education, the Germans eat only French fries ... They don't know Germany, and they don't even know their own country. Please don't forward it to me, thank you. Besides, I have nothing to do with other Germans, only to represent myself. ”

He also waged war on public knowledge.

One day, Ren Zhiqiang forwarded the "German belief in the five philosophies."

When Lake saw it, he began to fight back, "The Little Bo-Ren, whom I have never heard of as a kraut." "The most important reason for fighting back," says Lake, "is that Germany does have something worth learning about, but not that," These are false messages, not verified, and few people mention the lessons that are really worth learning. ”

Lake feeling, a lot of people take Germany to say things, the main purpose is to scold their own people, "why not directly scold it, why to pull the other countries look in the mirror?" This may be a kind of diffidence, you are now a big country, it is time to be confident. ”

One day, about the German milk powder thing, lake and came out the rumor.

A Weibo celebrity has made such a microblog: The German internet media began to choke, the Chinese bought the German milk powder! In this appeal to the domestic mother, the baby can adapt to change for other brands of powdered milk it. The hardest thing for Chinese moms in Germany is to get a cold shoulder to buy rations for their children.

People also sent micro-blog said: According to the "Pictures" and other reports, the German brand milk powder market rose. In recent months, in Berlin, Westphalia and other supermarkets, milk powder counters are often empty, some German mothers are very angry, because the Chinese buy a large number of powdered milk and sent to China, because Chinese milk powder repeatedly contaminated. Although the German milk powder manufacturers are still unable to meet the overtime, some manufacturers have begun to refuse the Chinese mass order.

Lake was so angry that he immediately stood up and said, "Some German mothers are furious." If there really are Germans complaining about this kind of thing, I can only say nothing to them. Are we not happy that foreigners are buying our products?

He also listed German media reports, quipped, "Only one of these media is more influential." The other thing is, like I showed the Germans how the Linfen evening News covered Germany. ”

Sometimes he said a good word to the Germans.

"The Chinese food culture is so great that no one dares to deny it." But if you say ' Europe is not what delicious ', then I can only express to you distressed: You failed to travel, study abroad failed, business trip failed. Does Europe seem to have "bread, cheese, potatoes"? So, do you think bread is equal to bread? is cheese equal to cheese? Suppose I say ' tofu is a smell ', so you don't think I'm an idiot?

At the feast, Lake often spits:

"We Germans are like this: the most likely to happen at the time of the holidays are family contradictions." Who see who is not pleasing to the eye, who said what should not say. In those days when we should be happy and united, we are the most disorderly. I wonder: do you guys do the same? (I first, oh, last Christmas 24th night, just finished dinner with the family because of what little fart things, and then went out for a walk on the better, ha ha) you? "

Some time ago, Chinese tourists in Egyptian ancient architecture engraved on the internet to scold the sound of a piece, Recker know feelings and unbearable:

The "visit to the Egyptian artifacts" event is a typical online hot topic. Everybody is two kinds of reaction every time: one, we Chinese face throws abroad! Second, the human flesh that sb! but these are unreasonable. First of all, we have less to consider ' the Chinese outside ' the image of it, do yourself a good job, why be who represented?

China's domestic microblogging debate, Lake will also talk about their views.

"A Shanghai person into their home near the restaurant, with a meal in Shanghai to say that impassability, the result is very angry, will not use Mandarin ordering, think the restaurant waiter in Shanghai should understand Shanghai dialect." As a German, I think that Shanghai people are very strange. Ober, aren't you tired? In my opinion, serious Shanghai people are actually very low-key. They love their culture, but they do not like the show, and there is no special superiority. On the contrary, some countryman moved to Shanghai, and then became proud, that they ' gray often ' Shanghai, so look down on others, that is, they despise their original fellow. This is my opinion of a little foreigner. ”

"The most amusing thing is that every group on Weibo feels the worst, and even the people who stay in Shanghai." I do not say ' Shanghainese ' because those who make love are not really shanghainese, from their ancestors and identities. Anyway, they feel worse than others. Well, you are the most miserable, worse than the migrant workers, worse than the farmers, worse than the mine, than the people in remote mountainous areas miserable, even worse than the people in the disaster area. You are worse than anyone else. I'll give you some candles. ”

"It's a very extreme emotion."

' China's microblog is very concerned about political news, ' says Mr. Lake, ' and in Germany, similar personal social tools rarely talk about political events, and are gossip around.

"This may be related to people who don't believe in many media reports." "The source of the information on Weibo is unclear, and there will be people arguing," says Lake. ”

So Weibo became a battleground for all kinds of controversy.

He observed a phenomenon, "private review": "Micro-blog deletion of posts, most of them are reported, I think Sina very helpless, they can not see all the micro-blog, someone reported, had to delete first." I feel that we are examining each other and it is difficult for me to understand this phenomenon. If there are terrorists, we can report them. But if there is a different point of view, it is very bad to report to each other, the consequence is that everyone will be accustomed to their own review of themselves. Then, the words are not dare to say, as if the police everywhere. ”

Lake thinks, the Weibo on each other, the abuse of each other, perhaps because many people feel that their life is uncomfortable, pressure, want to vent.

"I think that in Germany, labeling is normal, like I support the Greens, I am very loyal, but different opinions, people do not point to the nose personality insult." Weibo is very interesting, different points of view, labeling, curse sex, and finally scold boundless. This is a very extreme emotion. ”

"In the street, how can not each other abuse, why the internet to curse it?" "Talk on the Internet as much as you can," says Lake. I don't know if the opposite is the little girl or the old man. If I scold them, I will be very sad. ”

Lake pays attention to the micro-blogging mood, which also spawned his master's thesis.

Early last year, the Han phenomenon became a hot topic, with celebrities participating in the controversy, and the topic has remained warm. Lake looked carefully at the debate and wondered why it was so important. It takes him a year to figure out why it matters. After six months of writing, Lake felt he "didn't understand" China.

"I've been writing for six months, and it's still hard to make a conclusion," the paper says. "However, Lake found a lot of interesting phenomenon," I think that the people of South Korea and the Han, is not a topic. Han is a representative of a confident young man, some people speak for them, there is such a leader, feel very comfortable, they do not even care about the content and views of the article, in their eyes, the Han is a group of sinister ' Five cents ', the purpose is to destroy their opinion leaders, they are angry. But ' pour Han ' people, the main point of view is to fight, now, eggs, milk powder, edible oil and so on are fake, even police cars have cottage, now not easy to come out a young writer, there are false suspicion, many people can not sit still. They hope that at least one author, a young man, he must be true, if false, must fall, Anti-counterfeiting needs a breakthrough, ' Pour Han ' is to help the community. In this way, quite his and pour his quarrel for more than a year, everyone's words are reasonable, but did not quarrel together. ”

Lake feel, China's internet self-censorship and various controversies, there are many strange phenomena, the network of hidden emotions, it is worth many scholars attention.

Learn about China on the way

Lake knows China, not just on the internet. The 2007 hike allowed him to see another China. In his "hiking in China", recorded all the way of the story, the last thing to regret, is a trip "petition." That day, he lived in a small hotel, check-out time, late 10 minutes, the boss insisted that the extra half a day of room rate, the boss said: "The rules can not be changed, welcome to visit next time." ”

Lake flew into a rage, threw the money, ran to the yard shouting "deceive tourists", "business is unfair."

In the restaurant next to the wedding, see a foreigner pulling a voice shouting, we feel very strange. An old lady came to the weapon, asked him why not to the Public Security bureau or county government?

Lake is really going. In the county government, a gray-haired man received him, understand the situation, ask him, would you like to see the Boss?

The boss soon arrived, a forehead Khan, kept apologizing, and took out a wad of money, hard to let the lake accept. Lake didn't want to, turned and left.

Now mention this thing, lake very regret, feel too rude, "this thing is my fault, but finally let the boss apology, this is wrong." ”

The truth, Lake also understood, "officials see I am a foreigner, do not want to make things big." Many grassroots officials are afraid of foreign unrest. ”

As early as hiking, lake on the grass-roots officialdom have known, he in Beijing Film Academy to further photography, local holding photography contest, usually invite a few foreigners "full of face." Lake also went to a lot of places for free and was very knowledgeable about the Chinese grassroots.

"I apologize again, foreigners in China to abide by regulations." "said Rick.

Some people say, this is not a foreigner's "super National treatment?"

Rick said no, but he says, "That's not right!"

A while ago, Lake gave a speech in Germany, and a German who had come to China several times asked him, "I recently felt that the Chinese were not as friendly and enthusiastic as we were before." What do you think?

"But in my opinion, maybe it's a good thing," he said, sharing the matter with Twitter. It's best to be treated equally, isn't it?

During the trip, there was a young man called "Connaught" to impress the lake.

The 24-Year-old, a shy lad, has been a good boy, just graduated from medical school, is a doctor, he has long been concerned about Lake's blog and trends. After graduation, he secretly bought train tickets, to Xinjiang chasing on the walk of the lake, he has two wishes, one is to see Xinjiang, and the second is to accompany the Lake Walk for a day.

Enoch's plight made Rick Wonder that Enoch was a doctor, but had little money to earn.

"Doctors should make a lot of money, and if workers earn less, I don't have a problem, but doctors should make a lot of money," he said. "Lake with hand on his body gestures," the doctor will be on my body knife to do surgery, I hope you live well, eat full, happy life, why here the doctor income is very low, I have not understood. ”

Lake is a very humorous big boy, often on the microblog to tell jokes, one day, he sent such a micro-blog:

"I had dinner with a few Germans last night." One night topic: Beijing Air why so dirty?! Sometimes the high-rise buildings across the house can not see clearly, the recent physical feeling is very poor, how scary! What kind of filter is better? After eating, go downstairs and prepare to disperse. ' Wear a mask, ' I said. They nodded and replied, ' You go ahead, we're going to stop here and smoke gener! '