"mainlanders can't afford tea eggs" is a remark made by a professor from Taiwan Province. It appeared on a Taiwanese TV talk show. A mainland netizen commented on Weibo, which was forwarded nearly 5, times in just five days, causing a wide discussion among mainland netizens and satirizing Taiwan Province people as frogs in the well.

When the guests of the program talked about the rare sale of tea eggs in mainland China, Professor Gao, a "shop guidance expert", explained that it was because the per capita income in mainland China was so low that "the average person can't afford it". The host was surprised and asked, "Is it the same in metropolis?" Professor Gao insists that "there are poor people in big cities" and "we see that mainland delegations dare to spend money here, but only about 5 million people out of a population of 1.4 billion". Taiwan Province cheap food, the mainland people may not be able to afford the fallacy, the mainland netizens.

This is not the only example of "speaking ill of the mainland to show Taiwan Province's superiority". Last year, in a Tao Jingying program, a guest said that mainland girls "have never seen a bag", which also caused an uproar. These remarks, though not malicious in nature, have made mainlanders misunderstand Taiwan Province people's arrogance and even become hostile.

These impressions of the mainland are still talked about 3 years ago, and most people in Taiwan Province will not believe them. However, if they are told by professors or artists who are called "experts" and "well-informed", I am afraid that they will deepen the bad impression of mainlanders on Taiwan Province people and use them to ridicule Taiwan Province people. In the Internet age, media content always exists in the depths of the cloud, and it may be found out at any time to explode the communication effect. Taiwan TV programs stigmatize mainland self-entertainment with exaggerated examples, which is harmful to the goodwill and peace of the people on both sides of the strait.

Cross-strait exchanges are becoming more and more open, and both Taiwan Province people and mainlanders have more channels to get to know each other. I believe that fewer and fewer people will listen to those one-sided remarks in the future; I will no longer look at each other with stereotypes and say "brain-dead" words.