CHINKS Are World's Worst RACISTS -- Next To Americans!
Wanting
enough. To be frank, I just feel black people are too black.
Definitely, I wouldn't consider having a black guy as my boyfriend
even if he were rich."
-- Chen Juan, 27, secretary in an English-language training
school in Beijing
Slant-eyed yellahs don't know what to make of half-breed 'groes!
Bigoted Chinese goons and thugs boo 'boos!
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"Racial rethinking as Obama visits"
"Increasing diversity, born out of boom, forces Chinese to confront
old prejudices"
By Keith B. Richburg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Shanghai -- AS A MIXED-RACE GIRL growing up in this most cosmopolitan
of mainland Chinese cities, 20-year-old Lou Jing said she never
experienced much discrimination -- curiosity and questions, but never
hostility.
So nothing prepared Lou, whose father is a black American, for the
furor that erupted in late August when she beat out thousands of other
young women on "Go! Oriental Angel," a televised talent show. Angry
Internet posters called her a "black chimpanzee" and worse. One called
for all blacks in China to be deported.
As the country gets ready to welcome the first African American U.S.
president, whose first official visit here starts Sunday, the Chinese
are confronting their attitudes toward race, including some deeply
held prejudices about black people. Many appeared stunned that
Americans had elected a black man, and President Obama's visit has
underscored Chinese ambivalence about the growing numbers of blacks
living here.
"It's sad," Lou said, her eyes welling up as she recalled her
experience. "If I had a face that was half-Chinese and half-white, I
wouldn't have gotten that criticism. . . . Before the contest, I
didn't realize these kinds of attitudes existed."
As China has expanded its economic ties with Africa -- trade between
them reached $107 billion last year -- the number of Africans living
here has exploded. Tens of thousands have flocked to the south, where
they are putting down roots, establishing communities, marrying
Chinese women and having children.
In the process, they are making tiny pockets of urban China more
racially diverse -- and forcing the Chinese to deal with issues of
racial discrimination. In the southern city of Guangzhou, where
residents refer to one downtown neighborhood as Chocolate City, local
newspapers have been filled in recent months with stories detailing
discrimination and alleging police harassment against the African
community.
"In Guangzhou, to be frank, they don't like Africans very much," said
Diallo Abdual, 26, who came to China from Guinea 1 1/2 years ago to
buy cheap Chinese clothes to ship back to West Africa for sale.
With the recession, his business has dried up, his money is gone, and
he has overstayed his visa. Now, like many Africans here, he spends
most of his days at Guangzhou's Tangqi shopping mall avoiding the
police.
"The security will beat you with irons like you are a goat," he said.
"The way they treat the blacks is very, very bad." He and others
pointed out the spot where in July several Africans jumped from an
upper-floor window to escape an immigration raid. One migrant was
reported critically injured in the fall, and a large number of
Africans marched on the local police station in protest.
The Guangzhou Security Bureau said in a statement at the time that it
had a duty to check that foreigners living in the city were there
legally.
Long-held prejudice
In the 1960s, China began befriending African countries, supporting
liberation movements in Africa and bringing African students to China
in a show of Third World solidarity. Lately, China has further
deepened its ties to the continent, with Premier Wen Jiabao pledging
$10 billion in new low-cost loans at a China-Africa summit in Egypt
last week.
But that official policy of friendship has always been balanced
against another reality -- the widely held view here that black people
are inferior, that white people are wealthy and successful.
"The kind of prejudice you see now really happened with the economic
growth," said Hung Huang, a Beijing-based fashion magazine publisher
and host of "Straight Talk," a nightly current affairs talk show. "The
Chinese worshiped the West, and for Chinese people, 'the West' is
white people."
Hung, 48, said her generation was "taught world history in a way that
black people were oppressed, they were slaves, and we haven't seen any
sign of success since. The African countries are still poor, and
blacks [in America] still live in inner cities." Hung noted that
Chinese racial prejudices extend to the country's own minority groups,
including Tibetans and Uighurs -- or anyone who is not ethnically Han
Chinese.
The view of African Americans as poor and oppressed fits into the
official narrative of the United States as a place of glaring
inequalities. China's most recent annual report on the United States'
human rights record in 2008, released in February, made no mention of
Obama's historic election. But it said, "In the United States, racial
discrimination prevails in every aspect of social life."
"Black people and other minorities live at the bottom of the American
society," the report said. "There is serious racial hostility in the
United States."
Sherwood Hu, a Shanghai-based filmmaker, was one of the judges on "Go!
Oriental Angel" who gave Lou high marks. "Before the Cultural
Revolution, China considered black people our brothers and white
people our enemies," Hu said. "But deep down, they're a little bit
afraid of black people."
The racial animosity here reflects a prejudice dating to China's
mainly agrarian past: Darker skin meant you worked the fields; lighter
skin put you among the elite. The country is rapidly industrializing
and urbanizing, but that historical prejudice remains. High-end skin-
whitening products are a $100 million-a-year business in China,
according to industry statistics.
'Are we racist?'
Chen Juan, 27, a secretary in an English-language training school in
Beijing, regularly uses skin-whitening products and carries an
umbrella on summer days. "For me, the whiter, the better. Being white
means pretty," she said. "If someone looks too black, I feel they look
countrified and like a farmer. . . . Being white is prettier than
being black."
"In my impression, black people, especially Africans, are not clean
enough," Chen continued. "To be frank, I just feel black people are
too black. Definitely, I wouldn't consider having a black guy as my
boyfriend even if he were rich."
P.C. Chike, a Nigerian businessman in Guangzhou who has been in China
for five years, exports wigs and extensions made from Chinese hair to
his home country. He married a Chinese woman from Beijing, and they
have a son, with another on the way.
"Chinese don't like Africans. They don't like black skin," Chike said.
"China trying to embrace Africa is a political statement. The question
is, how do they treat black people?"
Li Wenjuan, Chike's wife, said she thinks racial attitudes are less
coarse in Beijing than in Guangzhou, where the commonly used Cantonese
term for blacks translates as "black ghosts."
Some here say Obama's presidency is causing a major shift in
attitudes. Others, however, say many Chinese rationalize his election
as a fluke of the American system or suggest that Obama, whose mother
was white, isn't "really" black.
"It will be really interesting to see what happens when he comes to
visit, because I really think the Chinese have a hard time with it,"
Hung said. "Nobody has dealt with this question of what this means to
our sense of race. It's a kind of self-examination that Chinese --
including myself -- need to go through: Are we racist?"
Lou sees similarities between her life and Obama's: She also grew up
without her father, whom she never knew. She read Obama's
autobiography and watched his campaign speeches on television. She
learned how to chant "Yes, we can!" in English and calls Obama "my
idol."
Reading the withering online criticisms of her talent-show appearance,
she recalled, she came across one post that asked: "Now that Obama is
president, does that mean a new day for black people has arrived?"
"I think the answer is yes," she said. "Some Chinese people's
perceptions of black people here have been transformed."
[Researchers Wang Juan and Zhang Jie contributed to this report from
Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.]
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Anti-DabianchenVirus
pretending to be "a guy from Taiwan"?
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/14/AR200...
Perry Neheum
Christians.
Thus, we have nearly half the world's population -- 3 billion --
socially and psychologically enslaved by and in the two most
laughable, hypocritical, hate-filled, racist, and war-loving mass-
cults at each others' throats in an insoluble religious war!
Forever, it would seem.
James Fenimore
One or the other will have to go ... no tolerance will ever overcome
their internecine hatred.
Gods and Monkeys
The smarter people get the less superstitious they become.
The populations where Christianity resides are by all metrics,
smarter than Islamic populations, of course. But you're seeing,
or there already has been a division in Western countries between
the intelligent and the dumb. The intelligent can self select and
self sustain through the internet, real mobility- interstate and
international, simple decision economics. The dumb are never wiser,
never clued in. The needed (dumb) population that Christianity
feeds on will always be in place. Christianity is a woman's religion.
Passive, meiotic, sustaining.
Islam is lock-down stupid and offers no maneuverability even
to the intelligent. It looks like the destruction of Islam must
come externally, like the great Genghis Khan did. Christianity can't
even seduce
Islam out of Islam, although Christians seem to believe this is
possible!
RichAsianKid
> "In my impression, black people, especially Africans, are not clean
> enough. To be frank, I just feel black people are too black.
> Definitely, I wouldn't consider having a black guy as my boyfriend
> even if he were rich."
>
> -- Chen Juan, 27, secretary in an English-language training
> school in Beijing
>
Sounds almost like something modern America can learn from.