Fueling a recipe for disaster

Early last month, a fight between an African American woman and a Chinese woman on a minibus in San Francisco was recorded on camera.

The clip was soon put on Youtube and attracted more than a million views. The scuffle occurred between two women from different minority groups in the US. But as a journalist living in Beijing, I am numb to such fights.

Search "fight in Beijing bus" online and you will find countless cases including video clips shot by cellphones that illustrate such disturbing behavior. Watching those scenes will frustrate our deepest beliefs in social harmony and humanity.