Chinese netizens celebrating ‘payback’ to the West after ‘100 years of humiliation’ — except the ‘humiliation photo’ they’re obsessing over is actually from French Indochina (Vietnam) around 1899-1900.
It shows the wife and daughter of French Governor-General Paul Doumer throwing sapèques (small copper coins) and grains to local Vietnamese children, who scramble to pick them up — a common colonial-era act of charity or festive distribution, not oppression.
One side throws around dollar bills like it’s epic revenge. The other side still can’t tell their own history from a Vietnamese scramble-for-candies/coins tradition.