Then again, many Chinese netizens are angry at the West because of the clash in cultures, values, and political systems. The Western way of dealing with problems is often direct and confrotational, which many Chinese interpret as an insult. The best way to deal with the situation is to drop the ethnocentrism and look at the issue from a Chinese point of view, and vice versa. There is simply too much hostility on both sides of the specturm, pro-Chinese posters were often dismissed by Westerners as paid CCP propagandists, while pro-West posters were often labelled as foreign imperialists trying to split China. But I do believe striving for mutual understanding is a solution to the problem, and these “shit youth” minority shouldn’t be regarded as a image of every Chinese netizen.

“China’s fenqing can be directly tied to the Boxer movement that led to the Boxer Rebellion and later the Red Youth.” If you mean similar I’ll agree. Most seem to be similar etnocentric xenopobic knee jerk reactionary mobs, reminiscent of Nazis.

Chinese people often say “Forgetting the past means betrayal”

HAHA, whatever you say man.

Nanking Rapes: A past that is not forgotten.
Tiananman Square Massacre: A past that is already forgotten.

Hah

The other fenqings are those who are highly educated, many in the Western worlds. After getting their advanced degrees they went back to China because they see more opportunities. They have been extremely successful in their fields. They are upset because they have seen the West, know of its ills, and have very little respect for the West. They are hardly seeking for approval from the Western nations, but they are upset at the attempts by the Western nations to influence Chinese domestic politics.

Personally I am not sure what’s the big deal with fenqings. You will get your conservatives in every country. If there are only liberals in China you would get chaos.

But these people are small in number and are typically ignored by the rest of the US as embarrassments.

China’s fenqing can be directly tied to the Boxer movement that led to the Boxer Rebellion and later the Red Youth. Both earlier instances were used as tools against groups the governments didn’t like (Boxers -> Foreigners and Chinese Christians, Red Youth -> anyone who wasn’t a hard core Mao supporter) and in the end their activities got so out of hand that the army had to put down both movements.

Many Chinese dismiss the angry youth as lost people and without any culture/sophistication, but in a country with a 3:1 gender gap, foreigners continuing to marry or adopt Chinese females and wages continuing to be pushed down even when employment was rising, as well as the world continuing to refuse to bow to the Peacock throne and continued support for Taiwan, Tibet, the Dalai Lama and now E. Turkestan, the angry youth have plenty of fuel for their fire.

Are fengqing really a potentially influential group? Do we really worry about the xenophobic reactionary vitriol spewed from right-wing websites, conspiracy theory nuts, and disgruntled internet addicts?

These people aren’t future leaders. They are future car salesmen, computer repairmen, or middle management at best(not knocking any of these professions). They are likely not going to be political leaders, bureaucrats, CEOs, professors, or real leaders of any sort.

“Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.” Karl Marx