If this prejudice is patriotism, forget it

JIANG YUE, a 19-year-old Chinese student in the United States, was shot to death by a local woman during a road rage incident over the weekend. While many in China have mourned her death, some "patriots" have claimed she deserved to die because she was being "unpatriotic" by staying in the US. It is time to give up the irrational mentality, says Qianjiang Evening News on Tuesday:

Some people love their own country in a rather weird way - by imagining Western countries as enemies and attacking anybody who holds a different opinion.

Driven by that prejudice, they attack drivers of Japanese cars during "patriotic" riots, and smash shops that sell US goods. Now they have turned their "patriotism" on the 19-year-old victim of a homicide.