Money throwing American basketball player provokes controversy in Hunan

WTH, does NOBODY here have any black friends who listen to rap music?

He's OBVIOUSLY makin' it rain. This happens in the US all the friggin' time when a guy makes it big. Just two years ago I was in a club in Los Angeles where this black guy in the VIP section took a roll of $1 bills and started making it rain during the song. My friends were scrambling on the ground to collect the bills. That bought us a bunch of ghetto dogs on the streets after going clubbing.

What Chinese (and apparently expats) need to do is understand OTHER people's cultures. He was showing the students LOVE, not trying to demean them.

Myles, I don't think Chinese people read Shanghaiist.

Its obvious that he did not plan this(throwing gifts would have been better)....Maybe his sympathy got the better of him and instead of crying he decided to spread joy....

1. What chinese, especially traditional, need to understand is that us foreigners(especially those in the country for a small period of time) dont understand the culture here. If you are going to be inviting people to your country you should make yourself aware of his culutre too.

2. Another thing Chinese need to understand is that most western countries living standards are a lot higher than China's average living standard. We often dont encounter poverty like you can here. I have travelled to most cities and a good couple of towns in China and the standard of living has shocked me, whats seems to be normal for chinese is NOT NORMAL for most westerners who travel, especially a basketbal player, who most probably earns more than those students will in 100 lifetimes!!!!

3. Basketball is a sport that is played in most poorer areas of USA, perhaps he came from a less fortunate backround.......????

4. Finally he was not attacking your culture or pride or whatever other excuse you want to come up with, he felt sorry for these kids(who obviously dont have money) and that is that!!!!!!

He was probably just leaving the country and decided to get rid of his extra local currency. I've given away my last ten buck in a local currency before getting on a train before (in France, and the dude took it, and there was no national uproar).

The funnest part is that the uproar is because "this makes china look bad to outsiders", while at the same time no one outside of china even knows about or cares about this at all. Hilarious.

Better than slapping the face of a spa girl with a wad of cash and demanding sex!

Oh wait! That was done....by....a....CHINESE person!!!

Oh MY! And the attitude towards black people was just about to change!

Yep- money is money. Some people would say I'd be an embarrassment to China, but I'd say they have no common sense.

Meh- free money, there's no doubt in my mind that I'd pick it up.

Making it rain...

Making it rain...

He is clearly tearing the money in half whilst spitting on the students faces.

If he did this in Govan people would think he was a twat, if he does it in Hunan, he is a villain. I think the correct answer is somewhere between the two.

the Chinese inferiority complex at its best...

if this happened in the US, or even if the money was thrown by another Chinese, people would just think free money.

If this happened in the US or anywhere in the world there'd be people condemning it.

Come on...

If a Chinese basketball player threw money out of a window from his team bus in the US, I truly doubt that 69.5% of them would lash out thinking that their fellow compatriots who picked up the cash "humiliated our nation because they did not have any moral integrity."

My point is that the Chinese are so nationalistically sensitive that they take these things so out of context.

Acting like a bunch of idiots when money is throw at you is pretty embarassing. I really don't see why you consider it to be nationalism when netizens simply feel the behaviour of the students is a bad reflection on the country.

Please make sense