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In recent weeks, two very familiar household names in China\u2014Nobel prize-winning novelist <\/span>Mo Yan<\/span><\/a> and bottled water company <\/span>Nongfu Spring<\/span><\/a>\u2014have <\/span>come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists<\/span><\/a>, who have accused the pair of odd bedfellows of being insufficiently patriotic and overly pro-Japanese. In Mo Yan\u2019s case, the controversy originated with <\/span>a nationalist blogger who filed a court order<\/span><\/a> to stop the acclaimed novelist from \u201cdefaming\u201d China\u2019s heroes and martyrs.<\/span> Nongfu Spring\u2019s troubles began with <\/span>rumors of a business rivalry<\/span><\/a> with another Chinese bottled water company (the <\/span>Wahaha Group<\/span><\/a>), snowballed into accusations that the company was <\/span>too pro-Japanese<\/span><\/a>, and culminated in an announced <\/span>boycott of Nongfu Spring products by 7-Eleven stores in China<\/span><\/a>. (<\/span>It is worth noting that 7-Eleven is headquartered in Texas and <\/span>owned by Japanese company Seven & I Holdings<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

In today\u2019s CDT Quote of the Day, a user on the Quora-like Q&A site Zhihu <\/span>contrasts past instances of \u201cperformative patriotism\u201d with today\u2019s louder and even more pathetic hyper-nationalist displays<\/strong><\/a>, while also drawing attention to a sluggish economy in which many Chinese citizens have curtailed or \u201cdowngraded\u201d their consumption spending:<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhihu question:<\/strong>
\n\u201cWhat’s one sentence that proves people have downgraded their consumption?”<\/p>\n

Answer from Zhihu user \u65f6\u4ee3\u4e4b:<\/strong>
\nTen years ago, people proved their patriotism by destroying Japanese cars<\/a>.
\nFive years ago, people proved their patriotism by destroying iPhones<\/a>.
\nNowadays, people are proving their patriotism by destroying bottles of Nongfu Spring Water<\/a>. [<\/span><\/a>Chinese<\/strong><\/a>]<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent weeks, two very familiar household names in China\u2014Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and bottled water company Nongfu Spring\u2014have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists, who have accused the pair of odd bedfellows of being insufficiently patriotic and overly pro-Japanese. In Mo Yan\u2019s case, the controversy originated with a nationalist blogger who filed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1084,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,116,20,2,10,14744,100,5,4202],"tags":[5918,15610,6986,6777,15615,1343,4531,7302,1492,7800,7900,4850,2818,7070,70,2475,17280,8,4667,1360,18521,8208,16974],"class_list":["post-698033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-world","category-culture","category-economy","category-law","category-level-2-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-anti-japan","tag-anti-japan-protests-2012","tag-apple","tag-boycott","tag-cars","tag-china-japan","tag-chinese-business","tag-consumer-spending","tag-consumption","tag-economic-slowdown","tag-foreign-cars","tag-humor","tag-imports","tag-iphones","tag-japan","tag-lawsuits","tag-little-pinks","tag-nationalism","tag-online-public-opinion","tag-patriotism","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-translation-excerpt","tag-zhihu","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nQuote of the Day: \u201cNowadays, People are Proving Their Patriotism by Destroying Bottles of Nongfu Spring Water\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2024\/03\/quote-of-the-day-nowadays-people-are-proving-their-patriotism-by-destroying-bottles-of-nongfu-spring-water\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Day: \u201cNowadays, People are Proving Their Patriotism by Destroying Bottles of Nongfu Spring Water\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In recent weeks, two very familiar household names in China\u2014Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and bottled water company Nongfu Spring\u2014have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists, who have accused the pair of odd bedfellows of being insufficiently patriotic and overly pro-Japanese. 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