Let’s start with the conclusion: you can go to a Chinese restaurant for lunch or dinner, but you cannot go shopping at a Chinese restaurant. That is, for the second it is assumed that it is stigmatized. They are places that are assumed to have a heritage of everything at a hundred and, therefore, poor quality. On the other hand, you can say that you are going to eat a Chinese with the same peace of mind as if you said that you were going to an Italian to eat pizza, to devour some yakisoba in a Japanese, to devour empanadas in an Argentinian.

We have reached this point thanks to the debate opened by a controversy that arose in .

“Supermarket or bazaar”, @taniaverge, councilor of Igualtat, proposes as examples, instead of those two designations, congratulating the creators of an initiative that, under the label

“Discriminations”. Not everyone sees them. Nor is it politically incorrect: “When we said the Valencian, the French or the Russians (those from Ponent Street, in the 40s and 50s, the Klausnitzers), it was also microracism?”, explains the writer @EnricGoma; “It is purely descriptive language. (…) You see racism where there is none,” says @TabareMoreyra.

That the students’ posters were first written only in Spanish and not in Catalan is also a prejudice for many tweeters, because, they argue, it presupposes that the owners know one language, and not the other. (The initiative’s Instagram currently makes the download available in Catalan).

Some users pose the most difficult question yet: what do we do with the shops where there is everything and that are advertised with large signs with a red background and white letters China Mercado, Bazar Chino or El Corte Chino? Or also Paki Pan? Can we say I’m going to the Chinese or the Paki?

Barcelona City Council launched a similar campaign in 2019 that raised some dust. But while we wait for Judge García-Castellón to conclude, as @isufbenyusuf says, that M. Rajoy is Pedro Sánchez, and already resolved that reggaeton is the unnatural regression of the excellent You shook me all night long by AC/DC, we recover old topics in X to debate in the absence of new ones.