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I love foreign countries

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The wags behind Bullog.cn, an aggregator of liberal Chinese blogs, are selling T-shirts on auction website Taobao.

You can buy a Bullog T-shirt here.

Or see if you get any reaction from angry youths on the street when you wear the shirt in the photo to the left (click here to buy).

The shirt says 'I heart foreign countries'. The shirt is a parody of the 'I heart China' T-shirts that patriotic people have been wearing since the riots in Tibet and through the disastrous Olympic torch relay, Sichuan earthquake and the Olympic Games.

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which proves that they are another group of angry youth...Gee, can't they figure out a better way to express their idea if they really think that it is stupid to express patriotism by wearing a stupid T-shirt?

how can i buy this t-shirt with a master card

Foreign countries put off olympic torches. Don't love them.

我❤国际无产阶级主义!

I love foreign men might have been a good one too.

我❤异国?

Just noticed I ballsed that up and it should have been 我❤无产阶级国际主义. Still, it's the thought that counts. Probably wouldn't fit on a T-shirt anyway.

I❤歪果儿

It's interesting that traditional characters were used. Is that supposed to be like, extra 刺激, or what?

there is nothing wrong to express patriotism. i think they want to tell the people to love the courntry in the proper way a rational way

Nice... Now go get a I love Sith t-shirt... On sell... for the very low low price of ... your soul.

It just goes to show people on Danwei will hate whatever you do. No matter what. Bunch of haters on this site. Bunch of haters everywhere. OMG, I'm surrounded by haters.

BTW...FYDW YPFS.


a great idea....i am buying!

I can understand opposition to the I Love China movement, but this is ridiculous. One of the biggest problems with developing nations is that talent tends to emigrate outwards, so that the nation is left with incompetent and corrupt personnel. With a "I Love Foreign Countries" T-shirt, not only are you condoning brain drains, you're also condoning the tendency among successful Chinese to get a residency or citizenship elsewhere.

On other posts, Chinese liberals, like liberals elsewhere, have tried to emphasize their patriotism, even if it's not in the most common form of patriotism. This just negates all of their effort.

@Inst
LOL, what you say is very true. But if all of the people who hang around Bullog.cn and other "liberal" internet gatherings emigrated to the west, there would actually be a net gain in average talents in China. Really the only ones who hang out there are brain-dead failures in life that only know how to complain and speculate on their dream lives in their foreign promised lands.

我❤老外 would make a trendy top selling tank top type shirt for cosmopolitan Chinese chicks.

as long as we're coming up with stupid t-shirts...

我❤鸡奸

@abde @Inst

please get some facts, you two don't know a thing about bullog, nearly all its readers and writers are in China, the site used to be able to show commenter's ip address and I rarely saw one thats outside China. 罗永浩 created it in 2006 in an attempt to free himself from restrictions imposed by his former blog hosts, then he invited a network of well-known bloggers. bullog has a liberal alignment because most writers are young, with few lawyers.

most importantly, bullog amassed millions of dollars and lots of relief supplies for the Sichuan earthquake, 罗永浩 and some bullog writers then made their way straight to the epicenter when after-shock was still ongoing and distributed these benefits.

about bullog, I never said that Bullog wasn't Chinese, or frequented by Chinese posters. Learn reading comprehension and try not to be a Chinese version of the "bitters".

@about bullog
Huh? Where did I say they are not from China? It is exactly that attitude from some Chinese, thinking that the west is paradise and ignorant about what it is like and then complain about their life in China all day while they are doing better than most, that ticks me off.

Of course, their efforts in the earthquake relief should be commended, but almost everyone contributed in the relief effort and they are not special.

Also, even when they are labeled so called "liberals", they are just as unwilling to accept different opinions, unable to think clearly as the typical ultra-nationalists. Remember their "earthquake is predictable and toads should replace the useless earthquake bureau" line?

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