The student said she has received some messages calling for her to be burned alive with oil.

She said she filed a report with the Duke University Police Department Friday.

"I think this is not the time to die for my country," the student said. "I love my life."

DUPD has increased patrols around the student's dormitory and has offered her personal protection, which she declined, said DUPD Maj. Gloria Graham.

"She did report to us that there were some general threats made to her, or things she perceived to be threats," Graham said. "We take harassing phone call and e-mail cases all the time. I think we are all a little bit more alarmed about this case."

Student gets threat after China protest

This reminds of the sociopaths who threaten and often do burn their sisters, wives, girlfriends, nieces, daughters, etc. because they put on a little too much blush or cannot produce a son or looked at another guy the wrong way, or take your pick.

I am not saying that misogyny that is driving the hateful nationalistic fury towards this student -- her parents' home allegedly has been attacked, which would exclude misogyny per se.  But I wonder whether nationalism (or if you prefer the politically clean expression, "patriotism" or "national pride"), sectarianism, sexism/misogyny, homophobia, racism, and all the rest, may not all sprout from the same poisonous root: insecurity at one extreme, self-loathing at the other.  Instead of dealing with their own negative self-image, they feel compelled to identify with and project their self to some some tribe or principle or other kind of ersatz "super self", redirecing their wretchedness from self and converting it into a raging, terrified hatred of whatever is not self.

What is the vaccination for nationalism?

A language is a dialect with an army and navy.