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Discussion over French Brands after the Return of Two Zodiac Heads

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The following is a guest post by Philip via MarketingToChina.com, edited by Key

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Last week, François-Henri Pinault, the head of the French luxury group Kering, returned two Zodiac sculptures of animal heads toward the Chinese people as a gift. In fact, Pinault, as well as the head of the French businessmen delegation and French President François Hollande who came to China during the same time.

And the return of the Zodiac heads seems to arouse Chinese people’s sensitive patriotic nerve and thus caused an interesting reaction to made-in-France on Weibo and BBS such as Tianya.

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Rabbit head

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Rat head

The first topic that heated discussed is the contract for 60 aircrafts between China’s CAS GTA and Airbus; following is the project of French carmaker Renault who plans to set up a factory in Wuhan to produce 150,000 vehicles per year.

Most people regarded this as a decent deal for the French as they posted online:

@Panorama_SH：还给我们两只水笼头，並表示中国鸡其实是可以吃的，然后就拿走六十架空客、雷诺15万辆整机厂合同以及广核长期协议，上哪儿找这样的生意？！

They gave us two water fossets (the two heads were used as fountains) and it means they can make easy money. They just signed contracts for 60 planes, factory project of 150,000 vehicles capacity and cooperation with China Guangdong Nuclear, where can you find a good business like that!

@寒梅傲冬居士：政治意義大於實際攵物價值

The political value of this return is more than value of cultural relics

@July滴七月：发现中国某些人也开始了被迫害妄想症，别人不还东西，那个叫强盗，还了，那个叫作秀……好好的感谢然后收下不就完事了吗？还做一个社评又一个探究……要是当时自己把东西看看好，至于弄成现在这样？

I discover that some people are paranoia. For them, if French people don’t return the stolen goods, they are robbers and if they return, that’s for show…can you just take it and say thank you? What is the use of editorials and investigations…if we can care enough about our belongings at that time, will all these things happen?

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Another topic attract many eyeballs of Chinese is the realization of “Versailles perfume” formula which was developed by Marie Antoinette in the 18th century, almost the same time as the construction of Old Summer Palace, where zodiac sculptures of animal heads settled. However, their destinies are totally different. And this cause people to think deeply:

@永不弃：这点说实话，我还是挺佩服法国人的，能把几百年前的东西给拿出来重新做。我们也一样可以把官窑、汝窑什么的拿出来做。

To be honest, what French people did is admirable. They can revive something used hundreds of years ago; we can also reinvent ours like Guanyao porcelain and Ruyao procelain.

@冬季绝对冷: 房地产来钱多快啊，要什么历史，要什么自行车？可别让我老婆看到，看到又要我买了。

Real estate is fast money, what the use of history, or anything like that? Don’t let my wife see the  post, she will ask me to buy the perfume.

Source: Sina news, Tianya BBS, Weibo

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  1. Chinese netizens are the shits of the east, big shitheads that needs a life.

    Whites don’t give you back anything without first making you kiss some whitey ass, get it.

    The whiteys look down on China and will stick it to the Chinese people ever which way.

    But not to other Asians, as below.
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    “US to return more smuggled dinosaurs to Mongolia.

    The US is to return more than a dozen illegally smuggled dinosaur skeletons to Mongolia.

    The announcement follows the handing over to Mongolian officials on Monday of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar at a ceremony in New York.”

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    1. wow, so sad. you say others need a life? yet you’re the one actually wasting time reading and commenting to them, how sad is that?!!

      “The whiteys look down on China and will stick it to the Chinese people ever which way.”
      lol, what hole have you been living in? right now, they’re the ones kissing their asses, guess who needs money? the whiteys. guess who has the money? the chinese. you know what 1 + 1 is right?

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