to think this headline is shonky lazy crappy racist journalism?

[WiiDram]

Local paper has story about 36 Chinese students attending a summer school in the area.

Headline?

'CHINESE INVADE XXXBOROUGH'

Wow. Its more lazy than racist but thats only becuase it is is REALLY lazy.

Sounds light hearted to me, what's your problem with it?

I can see why you think that, but I don't think it's as bad as you are implying. It was lazy possibly, but certainly not malicious.

Oh come on.

'Invade' when applied to people from another country is almost ALWAYS used as a negative.

How about 'XXXBOROUGH WELCOMES CHINESE STUDENTS' instead ?? Took me all of, ooh, 30 seconds to think of, so hardly cutting edge stuff.

"Shonky", what does that mean? I love the sound of it. Is it a form of skanky?

Yes it is racist/xenophobic. Why "invade"?

Shonky means generally rubbish

shonky = somewhere between shit and wonky , usually used to apply to my attempts at diy

and it is BLATANTLY inflaming xenophobia

It's a "subtle" way of saying - "look at them all lined up. Aren't like us, are they? Must be up to something"

With you wii -but it's a european thing - EU countries very worried about china. UK less than others but it's still a shitty headline.

It isn't blatantly doing anything. It's a silly headline, admittedly, but to suggest it's out and out racist is taking it too far.

YANBU...invade suggests something negative. I'd write to the paper and if you put their link on, I'll do the same.

Yes I agree. " invades..." is never a positive line.
Out of curiosity, why is 36 chinese students in a school news?

Looks like someone else has raised it with them already - on their website, the headline has been changed to 'International students are first for XXXborough'.

Yanbu

I used to work for a local paper in my late teens. They would have loved this as a headline.

Don't think they necessarily realize that this is racist (although it is). IME the kind of editor who has never made it any further than a small town paper will actually think that this is creative and hilarious. Hence their high flying career.

Out of curiosity, why is 36 chinese students in a school news?

Where I live, the bookshop's cat died and that was the front page of our local paper............. He was a nice cat though

It's a rubbish headline.

They will make news out of anything - we've also had the notable headline 'Donkey visits old peoples' home'...