A male student found an iPad and thought the owner might be a foreign student, so he posted a bilingual lost-and-found message, which was unexpectedly labeled by netizens as “pandering to foreigners” and subjected to cyberbullying.
The netizen with the ID of “St. Francis of Assisi” said he was a male student in his first year of undergraduate studies at the University of Electronic Science and Technology, and he found a green leather iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil in his classroom seat drawer.
Since the iPad is set to all English and the message alerts are not qq or WeChat but Youtube and Economist, the owner is probably a foreign student from the School of Economics and Management.
Based on this speculation, he posted a lost and found in English and left a note with his phone number and QQ number at the seat where he found the iPad. After successfully contacting the owner a few hours later, he said, “You don’t have to question my motives, I do this with my conscience, not any motive.”
The nightmare began when many users of campus forums thought the owner was a “foreigner” and some people even added his QQ friend and then wrote to him, mistaking him for a girl and claiming the lost and found items. The girl was hungry to meet International Students“.
Afterwards, he posted an article explaining that he wrote a lost and found in both Chinese and English, not as a “special care for foreigners” or “meddling”, and added that the iPad is a considerable amount of property for students, “I hope that a little help can change the situation. I hope that a hand can change the world a little”.
He suggested that the school should strengthen the management of the forum, such as the audit of postings, it is necessary to block some illegal accounts. He said that the forum is “full of racism, sexism, offensive comments and grievances” and said, “I am the victim today, but I don’t want there to be a new victim tomorrow.
The owner of the iPad wrote a bilingual lost and found claim in English and Chinese.
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