Do the Boxers deserve a bad rap? I strongly disagree that the Boxers deserve a bad rap because they were fighting for their own country, which is an act of patriotism. Although the methods of the Boxers are doubted, they still deserve recognition for their accomplishments of trying to remove foreign spheres of influences in China. First of all, the idea of the Boxers is noble and respectable, “Support the Qing, destroy the foreigners.” This is very noble because the Boxers are trying to stop the spheres of influence from imperial countries which is ruling over China. However, the method that the Boxers used to protest against the foreign powers involves the brutal murder of high-ranking officials. “Clemens von Ketteler was killed while traveling from Legation Quarter to a meeting at Zongli Yamen.” (The Hutong Education) The Boxers also brutally murdered a lot of Christians because they thought that the Christians caused droughts, which affected the farming economy in china. “The missionaries were stoned, and the children were torn to pieces.” (Hua-Cheng Kwei) Some people might think that Boxers deserve a bad rap because they were very violent and were overdramatic and unreasonable. However, what many people don’t understand is that the Boxers were just ordinary people fighting for their country against the overbearing imperial powers. In summary, the Boxers do not deserve a bad rap, although their methodology of removing foreign spheres of influence is flawed and questioned, they will be remembered in history as people that have attempted to remove foreign spheres of influences.