{"id":6802,"date":"2025-09-18T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:24:19","slug":"us-tennis-player-to-apologise-foroffending-chinese-food-after-being-accused-ofignorance-and-arrogance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=6802","title":{"rendered":"US tennis player to apologise for\u201cOffending Chinese food\u201d after being accused of\u201cIgnorance and arrogance\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6803\" title=\"aacd4add675d3c779bd138b632c29408\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aacd4add675d3c779bd138b632c29408.png\" alt=\"aacd4add675d3c779bd138b632c29408\" width=\"1646\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aacd4add675d3c779bd138b632c29408.png 1646w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aacd4add675d3c779bd138b632c29408-300x160.png 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aacd4add675d3c779bd138b632c29408-1024x546.png 1024w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aacd4add675d3c779bd138b632c29408-768x409.png 768w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aacd4add675d3c779bd138b632c29408-1536x818.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1646px) 100vw, 1646px\" \/>Taylor Townsend, an American tennis player, is playing in the Billie Jean Golden Cup finals in Shenzhen, China, AP reported Thursday, he has apologised for\u201cOffending Chinese food\u201d on Instagram, his social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted by Townsend, he makes fun of the Chinese food served at the official hotel, including sea cucumbers, turtles and bullfrogs, said, \u201cThis is the craziest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8230; &#8230; aren&#8217;t bullfrogs poisonous? They give you warts and blisters ? and turtles &#8230;&#8230; Noodles are the only thing we dare eat on the table. On a scale of one to 10, I would give these foods a two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Townsend&#8217;s comments quickly sparked a backlash on english-and chinese-language social media platforms, with many accusing her of \u201cIgnorance\u201d and \u201cArrogance\u201d, particularly her \u201cRacist thoughts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, \u201cI won&#8217;t defend Taylor here, it&#8217;s obviously offensive, and what&#8217;s more shocking is her lack of basic understanding of different cultures outside the US,\u201d one user made clear, while another wrote: \u201cIt&#8217;s really rude to laugh at other people&#8217;s food culture. It&#8217;s disrespectful to different cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under public pressure, Townsend publicly apologized on the 17th, saying, \u201cThere is no excuse for this, for me, I will do better in the future.\u201d, this time in Shenzhen to participate in the process of the competition, he obtained a\u201cVery wonderful experience.\u201d. (Zhou Yang)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Townsend, an American tennis player, is playing in the Billie Jean Golden Cup finals in Shenzhen, China, AP reported Thursday, he has apologised for\u201cOffending Chinese food\u201d on Instagram, his&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,261,257],"tags":[337,3407,3404,3406,3405,3403],"views":243,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}