A group of young people from Harderwijk is threatened because of a video in which they hear the carnival song on the train How long is a Chinese sing, writes the Gelderlander. The video was shot five months ago by a woman of Chinese descent, but was only shared on social media this week.
The hateful reactions have poured in on Harderwijk youth since Saturday, according to the Gelderlander, who has spoken to the young people and the woman who filmed the incident. The young people also received some death threats. “I’m afraid something is really going to happen and won’t close my eye,” said 19-year-old Emma.
According to her, she and her colleagues had a drink at a catering fair in Amsterdam. They had been singing the song all day How long is a Chinese, he is our Kees’ best friend, released in 2003 by BC ‘t Zooike. “We sang it for Kees, one of the boys in our company,” Emma tells the Gelderlander.
Hurting
But the fellow passenger who recorded the chant found the song “particularly hurtful,” she said in the newspaper. “I couldn’t let it go over my side and decided to film to give them an insight into what they were doing. But they just kept going even after I stopped filming. Then part of the group got aggressive and said to me to shut up and sit down. “
The latter is firmly denied to the newspaper by the group. According to Emma, the young people also did not realize that their song would be hurtful. “The woman was very happy and didn’t show that she didn’t like it.”
Empathize
Some of the videos shared on YouTube this week feature apologies from the youth involved. They say they have behaved stupid, regret the incident, and say they never intended to hurt people.
According to them, when they were singing, they did not know that the Chinese woman was in the same compartment, so they did not sing the song because of her presence, but for their colleague Kees. The woman in question contradicts that: according to her, the group did sing the song in her direction.
The young people would like to discuss the incident with the woman from the train. But she doesn’t like that. “Too much has happened for that.” She does express the hope to the Gelderlander that the young people learn from the incident. “That they think before they do and that they learn to empathize with someone else.”
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