We are talking about racists, right? Genghis Khan didn't kill because of race, he killed to concur. He killed his own brother, killed many people of his own race in different tribes, killed many many more Chinese people. I don't know whether that qualified him as racist, or that can be used as evidence that ALL Asians are racists. As for Nanking, if you want to, you can do a search about it in this forum. According to quite a few senior members with tons of posts, it was NOT ethnic cleansing. There were times others have compared Chinese being slaughtered in Nanking to Jewish people being systematically murdered by Nazi Germany. However, that correlation has brought great outrage on this forum. Some of those very fine non-Jewish senior members were very offended on behalf of Jewish people. They went in great length to lecture everyone how Nanking has nothing to do with ethnic cleansing. So, that doesn't qualify as racists acts. In other words, your examples don't support the claim that Asians are all racists.
I could see that in urban communities where they're numerous enough to feel included, like 'Frisco or West Village(?). It also doesn't help that blacks, hispanics and immigrants may come from more traditional subcultures that have stayed more family and marriage-centric than white Americans/western Europeans have since the '60s, and therefore appear to be a bit more homphobic. But if you're in some non-cosmopolitan community, you probably instinctively understand how quickly the pendulum can swing from large minority during a recession/crime wave, to foreign, to non-Christian, to goth to gay.
Actually during the Japanese Imperial Empire they did have laws that treated non-Japanese people differently, this applied to other Asians but also to European and Americans (both civilians and military) who were captured by the Japanese. The Japanese up until the end of WWII literally considered themselves divine people and consequently believed that every other people were inferior and treated them so. Even to this day Japan has discriminatory laws regarding Koreans. Throughout the history of China there have been laws that treated people differently based on their ethnicity and for most of Chinese history people outside of China were considered barbarians. The name "Zhong Guo" (Middle Country / Kingdom) reflects that view that China is the civilized center of the world surrounded by barbarians.
OK, you convinced me. Japanese considered Chinese and Koreans inferior to them and treated them so during WWII. That fact itself is clear evidence to you that Chinese and Koreans are racists? (BTW, as a side note, maybe you can get a free lesson from FB or Sammy why Nanking actually had nothing to do with race.) According to you again, China by its name "Middle Country" is evidence enough that all Chinese are racists. Spain or Great Britain called themselves "The Sun Never Sets" had nothing to do with the center or whatever you want to interpret. "God Bless America" means actually everyone is equal. My original question was what made people believe those few BILLION Asian people, as a whole, are racists. But you and some others want to use single incidents in history, EVEN WHEN CHINESE PEOPLE were at the receiving end of racism, you want to use that as evidence to label them as racists. I maybe disagree with you on some matters, but I don't expect this from you. If you want to be "generous" enough to call yourself a racist, being ethnic Chinese, or even put your own family into that category. Still, it doesn't give you right to represent ALL Chinese or Asians to label them as racists. Or, you actually meant Chinese in China, and Asians in Asia only? Once Asians including yourself live in US, they are no longer Asians, therefore no longer racists? Well, that's all fine then, I guess? I can't believe I am actually posting in a thread discussing which race is the most racist, and arguing with an Asian American how Asians are not all racists. Silly me!
This. I can't remember how they made it work, but the Nazis twisted their already-twisted Aryan master race ideology to include the Japanese, and since the Japanese already thought they were better than everybody else anyway, this meant the two regimes were able to ally themselves rather well.
I think if you think that certain races are more racist than others, then you're probably racist lol. IMO racism is a self-defense mechanism born out of insecurity. Every human is equally likely to be infected by it given the same circumstances.
The quote was, "The sun never sets on the British Empire." This had nothing to do with being the center of something. The fact was, the Brits had so many colonies spread so far around the globe that it was literally true that the sun never set on the empire. There was always some place in the empire where it was daytime.
I'm surprised by this. I've spent a fair amount of time working and traveling in Germany, and most Germans I've come across go out of their way to denounce racism. In many cases, it can seem a little "over the top" how far they go, almost like they're trying to ensure everybody knows how against racism they are.
i'd like to hear the story too. i took a viking river cruise along the elbe and everybody was friendly beyond belief. stuck out like a site thumb, so i guess they were going out of their way too make me feel welcome. they're not too bad on the eyes either.
exactly, its a stupid ass question to begin with. no surprise that our resident muslim basher has obssessed over this thread.
