the Chinese community in the U.K. is NEVER known as expats
How you define yourself is your own business. Indeed Chinese people do form expat communities all across the globe, but I have no interest in talking about those who’ve settled in the UK.
I’m sorry that you’ve experienced harassment, but you are strangely linking it to criticisms of the Chinese government. See my post above.
I read comments here from people who have probably never travelled to China or any other part of Asia calling for a ban on wet markets, referring to them as dirty and disgusting without understanding what they are
I have too and have explained multiple times why wet markets are not a problem, though live animal ones do pose a threat (those were banned in my area, only butchered meats were allowed).
Of course they don’t know! They can only understand what the media tells them. The media says wet markets are bad out of ignorance and they don’t know any different. But hopefully these threads have educated some.
I made the correlation with shoes indoors as an example yeah, but, wearing shoes indoors is a disgusting and filthy habit? No one enters my home with shoes on (unless it’s the in-laws...)