After almost three years, the tragic shooting incident in a travel
bus of Hong Kong tourists in Manila is still fresh in the minds of Beijing
people. [Manila Hostage Crisis] As this said, if
you can delay your visit please try to do so - now is not yet the season for a
Filipino to visit Chinese countries.
This is our trip that I'd considered politically intense and not
peaceful at heart.
In Jinshang Park, my sister is inquiring about postcards when an old
man talked to her. When he learned that
we came from Philippines, "He said that our government is not people oriented,
with what happened to the Yolanda victims."
While reading a map in Wanfujing, a lady approached us and
escorted us to the Dengshikou station, it was a nice conversation at first,
until she introduced the incident of Manila hostage crisis and ended with words
like "I'll visit when the time comes that China and Philippines become
friends again, because I don't want to die there."
Earlier I generalized Chinese countries, for obvious reason that
we also have a gap with Taiwan due to a fisherman shot by Coast Guard near
Batan group of islands. [Read]
Just within the October, a Chinese local crashed his car in pedestrian
lane of Tiananmen Square, a Filipino doctor who is traveling that time was one
of the two fatalities. [Read]
Incidents and accidents have happened for a reason that we will
never understand and might not able to moved on.
As feelings and emotions will always be attached and being nationalistic
to your very own country will always remain, a tourist for tourist should never
be the case. As we are once travelers in
this world, let us respect each other for we do not represent the negative
behaviors of the people who have done it in the past. We are not the men and women behind the guns
or the wheels who cost lives. As we
know, time heal all wounds but not yet at this time nor at this moment.
We travel to escape from the everyday stressful life at work, so
make sure that you go to place you can find peace and safety. Maybe not in their country, nor in our
country - to which destination it may be, never forget to travel with
discipline, respect and dignity.
Come in peace.
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