Chinese People Are Not More Civilised Than Africans

Over at the China Africa Project, there is a translation of a blog post by a Chinese worker at a mine in Mauritania, who wrote about his observations from working in an African country.

His post attracted quite a bit of attention from Chinese netizens, and their translated comments are posted on the same webpage.

Commenting on the actions of a supervisor, he wrote that

One of the locals asked why management had requested Africans to unload the truck while the Chinese were not asked to do the same. Actually, he didn’t know that the Chinese management, chefs, etc., had all carried cement bags at the site before. Those who earn a lot of money and those who don’t all work when they are required to. After all, supervisors have a sense of responsibility.

Remarks on the "lively and cheerful" Chinese bathing environment:

After we finish work in the evening, we Chinese people shower together. When there are many people in the shower room, it is lively and cheerful. The locals are not used to this kind of interaction with other people in the nude. I haven’t been to their compound and seen them shower, but one of my black friends told that that they do not shower together. Other people do not enter when a person is taking a shower, so it was a waste that the company installed seven or eight other shower heads in the shower room.

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