Brooklyn Beckham turns IG private after ‘racism’ accusations

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Brooklyn Beckham has made his Instagram account private after Chinese netizens accused him of being racist in one of his social media posts.

Brooklyn, 19, shared a post on Instagram with two pictures in Venice. One shows Asian tourists on a gondola and another is of an Asian woman in a supermarket.

“No place like Italy innit,” he wrote.

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Chinese social media users took umbrage at his caption, reported South China Morning Post on Saturday, Oct. 6.

Some wondered what his expectations were of Italy and why he was singling out Asian tourists when he too was a tourist.

“Accurately speaking, it is discrimination against Asians. He’s not Italian himself but a tourist as well. Who’s better than the other?” a Weibo user said, according to the report.

Others called for him not to come to China, while some have trooped to David and Victoria Beckham’s Instagram accounts and flooded the comments section with outrage about the couple’s son.

Incidentally, David Beckham has been an ambassador to promote Chinese football and has multiple endorsements with Chinese brands. Brooklyn has also had Chinese connections with mobile phone brand Huawei which he endorsed in 2016 for £100,000 (P7.1 million). Niña V. Guno/JB

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