A Chinese social media user who filmed himself throwing away the shoes of a sleeping barefoot traveller has caused a social media storm.

 

近日，一位中国社交媒体用户拍下了自己把一位光脚睡觉的乘客的鞋子扔进垃圾桶的视频，这段视频在社交媒体中引发热议。

 

The video, uploaded to the web portal NetEase, shows an angry man at an airport in Xiamen picking up the traveller's shoes and throwing them into a nearby bin¹.

 

"I saw a man lying on the seats with his shoes and socks off," the man says. "What will foreigners think if they see such ill manners - they will wonder about how low Chinese peoples' standards are."

 

Over 7,000 social media users have left comments on his video. The video by the man, who has not yet been named by the media, has caused a stir because it is frowned upon to be barefoot in China.

 

Many popular comments on NetEase and Sina Weibo users praised the "handsome" man for his actions.

 

Many comments said he "did the right thing" and that the shoeless man was "breaking public order and morals".

 

"His approach is certainly right", user "Qing Agoin" says, but she asks whether his behaviour is "a little extreme?"

 

Many said that the shoeless man's behaviour was "uncivilised", but others took an equally dim view of the vlogger, saying that "throwing away someone's belongings² is illegal".

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