Roxanne’s CER:
I belive that the boxers don’t deserve a bad reputation. Although they killed intruders, but intruders were the ones who started this movement in the first place by angering the boxers and trying to imparalize China, and they murdered more Chinese people, so the boxers were just killing the intruders as self-defence. The Boxers were classic patriots who loved their country and their people more than themselves. That encouraged them into fighting for the freedom of China, and they did not care if they might die. As long as China was a strong country, even if they lost their lives, they can close their eyes. Another thing that outnumbered the intruders were the courage the boxers had. Most people would be so afraid to battle someone that was way much stronger that they might just surrender and work for them. But that wasn’t the boxers’ personality. They fought fearlessly on the battle field, all holding one hope: as long as we won, China would remain better place for all of us. And that was the source of energy that rushed through everyone and gave them audacity. The boxers wanted to make their homecountry a better place, isn’t that something that they should be respected & admired ? So i strongly belive that the boxers deserve a better reputation than what they have now.