Netizen outrage after Chinese tourist defaces Egyptian temple
Parents of a 15-year-old Chinese tourist have apologized after the teenager defaced a stone sculpture in an ancient Egyptian temple with graffiti.
The act drew ire in both Egypt and China – generating a massive online backlash amongst China’s unforgiving netizens.
This was photographed by an embarrassed Chinese traveler and shared on weibo, China’s micro-blogging site on May 24.
“The saddest moment in Egypt. I’m so embarrassed that I want to hide myself. I said to the Egyptian tour guide,’I’m really sorry,’” that traveler wrote on the original weibo post.
“We want to apologize to the Egyptian people and to people who have paid attention to this case across China,” Ding’s mother said in a China Daily report.
The original weibo post was re-tweeted almost 90,000 times, received over 18,000 comments and was widely distributed across local media.
