China: Racism in China : Updates
UPDATE: For those who don’t know already, Hecaitou has responded to this post. He offers five reasons why the post isn’t racist, which include ‘China never had slaves’, ‘black people really do look like monkeys’ and ‘black people in China are not treated differently than Chinese’. All in all, I think it supports what I’m saying in this post pretty well, but you’re welcome to go there to check it — and the comments — out.
UPDATE 2: Things are progressing faster than I have time to follow, given that I have a full time job, but check out ????’s excellent response to this post and Hecaitou has also responded, this time in Chinese. His response, which I’ll translate for the sake of fairness when I get some free time, might best be summed up by this sentence from it: No matter how often you update, there’s still no racism in China. Suffice it to say, I think he’s misunderstood this post as an attack on China or Chinese people, when it’s intended as nothing of the sort.
Note : These are comments on the article Racism in China
For those who may find difficult to browse the chinese blogs for language boundaries , I have copy below the response of Hecaitou
C. Custer posted an article named ?Racism in China?. It seems that I have made a big trouble in my article ?Evolution?. Mr.Custer said:
So is it ignorance or indifference that caused most people (including the bloggers themselves) to ignore the racism and post the image?
Let me tell you why:
1?None of my race ever caught and shiped any single black man from Africa to China as slave. So I can make fun of them, just as they can make fun of me. So, What the damn “Racism” is?
2?There is no any single black man in China has been treated differently. They can take any bus as they want, enter any college as they wish, date any girl as they like. So, What the damn “Racism” is?
3?I am sick of “Political correctness”. It is because what you American have done makes the word “Negro” a taboo. You guys can not make any joke on skin color only because some of you named “KKK” had special predilection in skin color when they tried to make their human-flesh-barbecue. You guys do need the “Political correctness” . It is a made-in-USA taboo, a made-in -USA G-point, but count me out, please. So, What the damn “Racism” is?
4?On the very day I first knew there is Black Men exist in this world, I thought that they do look like the ape. It is neither Black men’s nor my fault, DNA made it. I can’t help laughing when I think of the ape, which calls “solecism”, not “Racism” . So, What the damn “Racism” is?
5?Even when your charming Obama is using money-making machine to resolve economic crisis, I only blame him as a waterful-mouthed political vase. I don’t say “go back to Kenya jungle, take banana as much as you can”. See? I know What the “Racism” is.
By the way, is there any “Racism” for white man? Maybe A ape with albinism?
Feb 18th,2009. ?NewYork Post?
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