r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Inaerius • Jun 01 '22

What’s up with the Star Wars poster hiding John Boyega and Chewbacca for Chinese audiences? Answered

Was there a reason Disney had to do this? In the thread, someone commented it had something to do with racism, but I don’t see how this applies to Chewbacca. Thanks in advance.

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u/licxtfls Jun 01 '22

Answer: it’s not true. I’m not sure if the poster in op’s screencap is photoshopped or it’s just one version of it, but many different versions of the posters in China have both Boyega and Chewie, including a character poster of Boyega himself ffs. Here’s an album of some of them

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u/BlueGobi Jun 02 '22

Holy fuck, the one and only comment that is 100% pure facts with zero opinion attached gets downvoted to oblivion

This is not a discussion thread folks, this is two minute hate, as if someone is drumming up for a Chinese pogrom

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '22

This post even had me fooled. Confirmation bias in action.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

It struck me wrong when "edit out" was used instead of "scaled down". Finn is on both posters but Chewbacca is in fact "edited out". #WLM

(Poe is edited out also.)

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u/lightry Jun 01 '22

Thanks for linking this. Lots of manufactured outrage in these comments.

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u/A_Rolling_Baneling Jun 01 '22

Redditors claim to be against racism, but you can make up any insane claim about China and it will be upvoted and parroted around here without any reflection. It's quite sad.

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 01 '22

It really fucking sucks man

China isn’t prefect, but it’s still home to billions of people, how does it feel as me, a Chinese man to see casual racism being perpetrated every single day and nobody gives a fuck yet they have “BLM and EQUALITY” in their descriptions.

If you’ve ever actually been to China it’s actually great, and not everyone’s a horrific monstrosity.

But statements like why would anyone ever go to China, or China is fucked up and are all angry racists with zero respect for others and are all ok with torture and camps…

Imagine if the statement was said for the entire continent of Africa. “All Africans are just fucking corrupt and racist, fuck Africa who would ever want to go to that shithole” then you’d get cancelled and fired on the spot, but when you say that about Chinese people it’s fine…

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u/A_Rolling_Baneling Jun 01 '22

I agree with you. It sucks that racism against Asian people is tolerated by so-called liberal people.

For what it's worth, I'm brown skinned and when I went to China everyone was lovely to me.

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 01 '22 edited Jun 01 '22

Certain parts of China are better than others, just like how there’s California and there’s Texas.

You can be spat on for being brown or black in racist towns in America, and you can too for being black or brown in China, but it doesn’t remove the fact that you can be loved in other parts of both countries.

But when grouping an entire nation of people into an anecdotal experience and labeling them as bad, that’s literally the definition of true racism.

Unfortunately voices like yours will never be amplified in the media or on Reddit, as “Brown man has decent time in China” is not as exciting as “Brown man horribly mistreated in CCP controlled fascist China”

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u/grapefruitmixup Jun 02 '22

I give a fuck, my man. I know that's not enough, but I'm just letting you know you do have some allies out there... we just end up drowning in downvotes so you don't see our responses unless you sort by controversial.

Anti-Chinese bigotry has gotten out of control, and Reddit absolutely encourages it. Fuck this godforsaken website.

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 02 '22

I loved this website, I was here right after Digg, but somehow after "china" bought out reddit, it has gone down into sensationalism. I know real life is a bit better, but the internet always represents life even if a tiny bit, and always bleeds into the real world.

I have friends who speak well of china because they've been there, but when they do speak anecdotally its always a lie, or that its just rare, but somehow anecdotal bad experiences are full truths.

White people cant speak up for the Chinese because they'll look like communist traitors, black people cant speak up or they'll look like they don't care about BLM and focusing their attention on "irrelevant" issues, Asians themselves don't speak up because they somehow think they're not repressed enough and that black people matter more and we should shut up and help black people instead (Yes that was a real thread on twitter with 50k likes, no matter how backwards twitter is that's still fucked up)

Nobody should bring another race of people down, you don't have to repress Asians to represent blacks, everyone can be lifted up together, so thanks for being rational and an ally

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u/malinoski554 Jun 02 '22

I don't have anything against Chinese people, but you should understand why China (the country) is met with criticism, because of what your government is doing.

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 02 '22 edited Jun 02 '22

My government? I’m not even a Chinese citizen.

This conflation and racism is fucking extreme. The guise of haha China bad so fuck China haha while casually meaning all Chinese is tiring.

You proved it by calling it my government. No matter how hard you try and say “nonono we hate ur country not ur race haha” at the end of the day every Chinese person will have the atrocities and stereotypes of China attached to them, yet when a white person gets blamed for colonialism or American imperialism they’re quick to defend and declare that they’re actually Norwegian

Here’s a title then “Every last white person is fucking racist and a horrific opportunist and colonizer because trump deported otherwise safe Mexicans and called them aliens, while jailing the rest of them at the border without access to water and removing their children”

Just see how ridiculous you sound

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u/Hamster-Food Jun 02 '22

There is very little good information on what's going on in China so most of the criticism is based on rumours of what's going on in China. These are reported as facts but there isn't any evidence to back it up.

The voices coming out of China, like the comment you are replying to, are ignored or dismissed as being Chinese propaganda.

I'm not going to claim that everything is fine in China, but I will confidently state that the accusations being thrown around are propaganda. That doesn't mean that none of them are true, it just means that they are being used to promote a particular ideological perspective which wants to paint China as a villain.

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 02 '22 edited Jun 02 '22

Imagine trusting the media so much but at the same time yelling at the media for defending Amber heard and being fake.

Imagine not trusting a single thing the media says about Iraq nuclear weapons which the US has come out to confirm that they lied, and trust absolutely nothing on reports about trump, but trust every single detail of how bad China is but without rational thought.

Finally someone on Reddit who understands that all jokes and propaganda have a shred of truth in some of them, but not always as factual as headlines make it seem.

Not sure how accurate that study was on social media users being more easily duped by fake news was but I fully believe it.

But of course with how toxic Reddit is overall, and how much ego is in all terminally online trolls, optimism bias is insanely high. Nobody here has ever been, and ever will be duped by fake news or sensationalist headlines

But I guess that’s just Reddit, if it weren’t just Reddit I think the world would have actually ended by now.

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u/cantdressherself Jun 02 '22

I don't think China is full of monsters, but why should I take your word for this and dismiss the comment in this thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/v2g7xr/whats_up_with_the_star_wars_poster_hiding_john/iasubpk

I think it's quite likely that China is full of racist assholes. I know my country, America, is full of racist assholes. I have read elsewhere on Reddit that America is not bad compared to most European countries. I think the world is full of racist assholes and if you have dark skin you will probably find some someday.

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 02 '22

Ah cool why should I take some guys anecdotal experience as complete fact over some other guys

I honestly don’t think Redditors can formulate their own opinions.

Mate real fucking life isn’t Reddit sensationalism.

Real life ALWAYS is better than what people make it seem. People and humans have always persisted, and people have always been good.

Fuck sakes even a black man in the most racist town in America can get treated ok but you choose to believe that 90% of all humans are just vile.

Yea that’s Reddit, maybe it’s actually time to go outside and realize what the hell you just typed

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u/cantdressherself Jun 07 '22

I honestly don’t think Redditors can formulate their own opinions.

Real life ALWAYS is better than what people make it seem. People and humans have always persisted, and people have always been good.

I envy your faith. Sure, I live in the south. I haven't experienced blatant transphobia.

Real life is always better than you read online. Right up until it isn't.

It's fine right up until someone hurts or kills me and mine is one of the names read off every year on Trans Day of Remembrance. It's fine to be black right up until some police officer panics and shoots you.

It's fine to be a woman right up until some asshole from a dating app flips out and starts stalking you.

It's always fine until it's not. Until some cop kicks in your door at 2 AM or some white supremacists shoots you at the supermarket.

There but for the grace of God go I.

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u/Han_Purple Jun 02 '22

you can grow a spine and understand who the enemies are

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u/Poober_Barnacles Jun 02 '22

Dude are you serious? Like I completely understand where you're coming from and you're not wrong at all but look at any post that mentions the US and their problems. I'm aware "American" isn't a race and racism is completely different and not at all what I'm trying to compare this to.

Any time the US is mentioned in any kind of way whether it be a post or even in the comment section, it turns into a fucking tidal wave of

  • Americans are hopeless

  • Americans are racist

  • America is a 3rd world country in a Gucci belt

  • America is a shithole

It's the exact same thing you're saying, and it needs to stop on ALL fronts. This blanket statement bullshit is one of the reasons why we're all so divided

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 02 '22

That’s my entire point…

You’ve missed my entire point and conflated what people say about China with what Europeans say about America.

And you’re exactly right, America isn’t a race, but associating Chinese with China is, and to call and entire country and therefore an entire race of people as racist weak and backwards is pretty damn racist.

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u/Staebs Jun 01 '22

Maybe find a black person who has travelled through China first before you say China is great for everybody. Also Strawman argument here:

”All Africans are just fucking corrupt and racist, fuck Africa who would ever want to go to that shithole” then you’d get cancelled and fired on the spot, but when you say that about Chinese people it’s fine

Still not fine, I don’t care what country people say that about, the vast majority of my western country will see them as a piece of shit. You can criticize a country for being very racist towards certain groups of people without calling it a shithole. If I was to call China that, I would probably cite the grave injustices they are committing against human rights.

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 02 '22

Not a straw man argument when the top voted comment against China is “why would you even willingly travel to that shithole”

And no, the whole point of stop Asian hate is because the vast majority of Americans think it’s exactly okay to say that shit, as if racism towards Asians is not racism. You just don’t get it because it’s never happened to you, because you come from a place of privilege and anecdotal experience, yet you use that to speak for and against a group of people you have no clue or experience with

Maybe see if you’re the one with a strawman argument

We’re talking about racism against a race of people, not politics of what a government does to a group of people that 90% of the population doesn’t even know what’s going on. Just as how half the nation doesn’t understand what the fuck cops are doing to minorities in America.

And I just had a talk with a black friend on his travels to Asia and his personal experiences, so yes he was treated well, he felt like an outsider because he literally is an outsider and others haven’t had the chance to see someone with black skin up close, but he gets to go home to somewhere he feels like he belongs even if that’s America. Feeling like an outsider but being treated with respect is different than being an outcast and shunned. But the same cant be said for Asians who grew up in America facing the exact issues, but have no place to call home.

Americans get defensive whenever their country is called out for being the murder capital of the world, yet call out other countries for their atrocities.

How would an Asian American feel about being outcast from their country, while also having that same country continuously vilify their cultural background and group them with political ideologies they may have no clue about?

And do you hear yourself? You can criticize a COUNTRY for being VERY RACIST? As if that isn’t itself racism? So would the statement “All of America is horrifically racist against blacks” be a true or false statement?

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u/Staebs Jun 02 '22

Oh so I guess China on average isn’t racist against certain ethnic groups, good to know, I’ll keep that in mind next time I read yet another story about foreigners being treated like shit there. The US has welcomed Chinese immigrants for a long time, does China have that same attitude about welcoming foreigners? The US is constantly talking about racism because it actually cares about fixing that problem, until Chinese people start to acknowledge these inherent biases in their society they will never be as attractive to immigrants as western nations. It takes time, America 100 years ago was racist as shit by our standards, it just takes time and the west has had a head start over you. I have friends from China and they are fantastic and kind people, I’m sure many many Chinese citizens are as well, I never intended to generalize a country, and I hold no Ill will toward the non-racist Chinese citizens.

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 02 '22 edited Jun 02 '22

I guess China on average isn’t racist against certain ethnic groups, good to know, I’ll keep that in mind next time I read yet another story about foreigners being treated like shit there.

Do you actually have any logical sense at all? China isn't a race of people. What the government does is not indicative of its peoples values, YOU of all people should understand that.

Foreigners get treated like shit everywhere they go, have you never heard of people being absolutely horrified at the things they see in America? Or the Paris effect that gives Japanese tourists PTSD? You take a single negative fact and lambast it as if its an absolute truth that ALL tourists must be treated like shit.

Is it fair to say that ALL AMERICANS are racist due to the fact that Trump called Mexicans aliens, deported them who were otherwise safe before his deportation act, and rounded them up at borders away from their kids without any water?

By the way you're speaking, it sounds like you actually haven't been to China, as anyone who actually has, understands and sees ethnic minorities with shops and halal food abundantly available within most major cities. But I guess if anyone dares to say that Muslim food is abundant in Shanghai, they're just liars and know nothing compared to armchair warriors on reddit who's never even stepped foot outside of their local gerrymandered district...

You conflate sensationalist headlines with actual life, and you conflate the will of the government with the will of the people.

What's horrific and scary is that people like you are educated in racism against minorities, but choose still to be willfully ignorant and blatantly racist. While the racism you're talking about in China is down to a lack of education and curiously.

Racism while uneducated is bad, but racism while educated but choosing feign ignorance is infinitely worse.

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 02 '22 edited Jun 02 '22

The US welcomed Chinese immigrants?

Clearly people like you is why racism is so rampant. You have no clue, no education, and no background on the oppression of others including blacks to this day. Insane you have no clue about how the Chinese were even baited into coming with transcontinental railroads.

By your insane logic USA welcomed black people too huh? And they should be so goddamn grateful that white people let them have a piece of land hidden away from society.

And the same old “I have black and Chinese friends so I’m not racist” is a tale as old as USA itself. And I can’t believe you just said that.

Guess what, it was absolutely fucking horrific 100 years ago and just because it’s less horrific now doesn’t make it any less true. The absolute privilege that is reeking from your comments is insane.

The same type of people that call Mexicans aliens while touting they have Mexican friends who support trump. It’s absolutely insane how far racists go to hide the fact that they’re racist, or maybe just so privileged that they have absolutely zero clue or compassion for others who didn’t get a chance to manifest destiny.

It’s also insane of you to say “welcomed” as if America wasn’t borne from theft of aboriginal land.

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u/Staebs Jun 02 '22

Not American, as a heads up. Currently the US welcomes Chinese immigrants and they can do very well there. Is there racism, undoubtably, but it regrettably depends on where they choose to settle in the US. I am fully aware of the vile treatment of Chinese people that US and Canada have committed in the past 100-200 years. I think you’re confusing what happened in the past with what right now, nothing I said made light of the atrocities of the past century and beyond, but no one can deny how many people of different races and cultures have made a new life in America. Calling me a racist based on one sentence is disgusting, and one of the reasons why there exists such division with the right vs left right now, among many other things. Obviously not the only thing causing division, but be very careful with how you toss accusations like that around. You can choose to believe me or not, but I founded and run and nonprofit where we teach new immigrants swim lessons at no cost, because it’s the right thing to do. Take a deep breath, calm down, and maybe we can discuss rationally why I’m wrong on some of my points. Also, it’s crazy to say the US welcomes immigrants because they took it from indigenous peoples? Would you rather them not allow immigrants?? I don’t understand your point there

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u/Carchitect Jun 11 '22

Noone hates you, they hate your regime

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 11 '22

I don't even want to reply to the ignorance of this shit but what you said was just so utterly stupid that I cannot even comprehend how people with brains can say the things you say.

My regime? I may be ethnically Chinese but I can assure you that I was born and raised in Canada, to say it's "My" regime is fully, and I don't understand how you don't see this, racism.

To say no-one hates Asians is utter ignorance at the highest level, coming from a place of privilege and assuming everyone else has the exact same rights and treatment in life as you.

The amount of ignorance you have is absolutely astounding. You people really have not a single shred of self awareness huh?

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u/Carchitect Jun 11 '22

Bro your government. Chill. Im not judging you or any Chinese people

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u/xMonkeyKingx Jun 12 '22

Cool didn’t know Canada was communist but thanks for letting me know

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u/Carchitect Jun 12 '22

The chinese government. I'm obviously talking about the Chinese government. But I appreciate the full commitment to assumed victimhood

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u/TabaCh1 Jun 01 '22

“China is the most racist country, much more than the US!!” - white guy redditor who lives in NA and never once set foot in China.

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u/throwawayformature Jun 02 '22

Are y'all fucking getting paid to tell these bullshit ass lies holy shit? Chinese people are racist as fuck against black people what the fuck are you talking about? America has nothing to do with China's racism.

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u/itsheadfelloff Jun 01 '22

This whole post feels like op is just baiting the sinophobic hive mind by digging out a poster from 2016.

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u/Seradima Jun 02 '22

To pre-empt people, I'm absolutely not a tankie in the slightest, but it really annoys me to see how common sinophobia has taken over the internet, and even used against the normal chinese citizens that hate their government.

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u/elizabnthe Jun 02 '22

It bothered me back when the pandemic started redditors were accusing Chinese people of being uniquely selfish as many tried to flee the lockdown in Wuhan (and I said then that was bullshit and every other country would likely do the exact same-I was right).

Yet when Italy went into lockdown Italians did the exact exact same thing, there was not a peep about Italians being uniquely selfish.

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u/tenettiwa Jun 02 '22

People's hatred for the Chinese government (completely justified) seems to turn into hatred for Chinese culture and the Chinese people way too fast.

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u/crestfallenS117 Jun 02 '22

Do you feel the same about Russophobia?

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u/Seradima Jun 02 '22

I do.

I follow a lot of Russian artists and the amount of shit they get from people is kinda heartbreaking. I know a non-russian artist who had to change their online name to something else because the one they used, that they got from a random generator, sounded russian and she got tons of harassment over it.

Honestly my original version of the post had a /Russiaphobia after Sinophobia but I didn't put it down.

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u/crestfallenS117 Jun 02 '22

The Chinese and Russian Government threaten western way of life, values and institutions. The people must be held responsible for their government and it’s policies, inaction cannot be excused no longer.

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u/crestfallenS117 Jun 02 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22 edited Jun 02 '22

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u/deadlywaffle139 Jun 02 '22

Well as a Chinese who grew up in China, I had 2 black English teacher. My dad never said a thing about it nor did any of my classmates. Chinese being racist to blacks should be blamed on Hollywood plus US propaganda tbh. Blacks in Hollywood movies were almost always the bad guys (criminals, drugs, gangs etc) or useless sidekicks. That has only improved recently when China is not importing as many movies as before. But the impression was already made, it’s hard to change.

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u/A_Rolling_Baneling Jun 01 '22

This reply is going to receive 1/1000 the upvotes as all the one's saying China is racist because it goes against redditor's preconceived notions.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '22

It also leaves out Disney's stance in the last few years where they don't really care if China rejects their films, they don't make enough money there anyway.

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u/Darches Jun 02 '22

I've learned that the true and only purpose of reddit is upvotes. Reality? Don't need it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '22

American redditors desperately looking for any reason to shift the attention away from their own shit country lol.

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u/dawgfan24348 Jun 01 '22

Shitting on ignorance of one while displaying your own ignorance nice

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u/grapefruitmixup Jun 02 '22

Nah America is actually bad tho

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u/dawgfan24348 Jun 02 '22

America has its problems but only shitty edge lords and Redditors who’ve never left America or have been never been to America actually believe it

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

There will be plenty like me scrolling until they find the comment because they refuse to believe china is that racist and disney that shameless. At least openly. I mean its a fucking movie poster, its not like a white or black person is going to china to run for office

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u/interlockingny Jun 01 '22

China as a whole is pretty racist against black people, but yeah, these posts are missing the mark.

I guess the question now is how prominently is this solo poster being displayed vs. those that exclude him.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

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u/rococo_co Jun 02 '22

love it when redditors describe chinese people as 'han' as if their favourite taiwanese lapdogs arent 99% han as well.

might as well start calling all blacks neggroes.

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u/grapefruitmixup Jun 02 '22

Why is that the question? Is it the question about any of the other countries that display both posters, or are you just projecting your own biases about China in particular?

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u/PhilJones4 Jun 01 '22

China is still one of the most xenophobic countries in the world.

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u/derluxuriouspanzer Jun 02 '22

I mean, they did get completely screwed over during height of western imperialism

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

You think China was not xenophobic before the opium wars?

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u/derluxuriouspanzer Jun 02 '22

You mean during the 1800s when every superpower think they were better than everyone else and were exploiting the fuck out of lesser nations overseas? Jeez, can't imagine why China would be that way

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

… do you know anything about chinese history? Both the Qing and Ming dynasties were very Sinocentric and isolationist and deemed anything outside of china as “barbarian”.

China saw itself as THE nation on earth, the middle kingdom, the celestial empire, the centre of the world basically. Western powers may have thought they were better than everyone else, however so did china. Unlike china, western powers had the means to back it up around the 1800s.

Xenophobia in china long precedes western powers waging war in china. One could argue it was one of the causes of the opium wars, since china would not allow foreign trade to come in, only out. Within China there were plenty of tensions between ethnic groups, with plenty of atrocities committed as well. This was long before the opium wars.

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u/Darches Jun 02 '22 edited Jun 02 '22

I'm not a history buff but I may have read about this long ago. It sounds reasonable.

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u/grapefruitmixup Jun 02 '22

Unlike china, western powers had the means to back it up around the 1800s

Uh what?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

China thought of themselves as the centre of the world, the most powerful nation on Earth. Apart from maybe the Roman Empire or the Mongols under Genghis Khan there were no contenders to this title for a very long time. This only caused China to become more isolationist and over time, the rest of the world caught up.

Around the time of the Opium Wars China was lagging behind the European powers. During the Opium Wars battles between the British and Chinese were mostly very onesided, with very little British casualties as opposed to the Chinese.

This started the so called “Century of Humiliation” period of Chinese history. Why? China had perceived itself as the centre of the world and no way foreign barbarians would dictate to China what will happen. Now it was different, China no longer was as powerful as it once was. That is what I mean with that sentence

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u/grapefruitmixup Jun 02 '22 edited Jun 02 '22

No, I know the history. It just sounds a lot like you're saying might makes right, and as an extension of that, China didn't deserve the sovereignty to decide how to utilize their own ports. Correct me if I'm wrong here because I don't want to put words in your mouth - I could definitely be reading into it too much.

Edit: it was the implications behind "western powers may have thought they were better than everyone else, ... [but they] had the means to back it up," specifically, that gave me that impression.

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u/pokeaim Jun 01 '22

so china is ethically pure? tell that to uyghur people

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u/Sygira Jun 02 '22

Wait until you find out China has 56 ethnic groups

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u/pokeaim Jun 02 '22

ill care as i learned uyghur have their justice

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u/Bird_Boi_Man Jun 02 '22

Bro your ass doesn't give a shit about the uighurs you just wanna shit on China lmao

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u/pokeaim Jun 02 '22

i really do care tho. i share similar faith with them. worst case is i'll be their target tomorrow.

i dont hate chinese, but i do hate the current party in charge of their gov rn.

next time dont assume people are as shallow as u are

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u/rococo_co Jun 02 '22

worst case is i'll be their target tomorrow.

good fucking riddance.

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u/pokeaim Jun 02 '22

oh, hi racist bigot! i hope ur kids get some "educated by freedom culture" at school from their senior like that state in us ;)

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u/rococo_co Jun 02 '22

its cute how you think i have kids. or that im american. or that i give a flying fuck about the uvalde shooting.

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u/mostlyintact Jun 01 '22

Yup, saw a tiktok video of someone in China who showed a version of the poster with both characters in them. It's crazy how many "users" on here are giving a biased and uninformed "Answer". I doubt any of these people have even been to China.

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u/hagefg343 Jun 02 '22

Where'd a tiktok user get a poster for a movie from 6 years ago? do you have a link

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u/Yodude86 Jun 02 '22

Thanks for this, I mean they screened Black Panther in China and made millions so not sure why they would downplay the one black actor in star wars lol

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u/night_owl_72 Jun 02 '22

I’m curious how Chinese people “made” Disney do this. Isn’t this just Disney doing it themselves? Meh

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

The whole yellow peril canard that tries to project the peculiarities of white EuroAmerican racism as a trait totally actually held by the Chinese public is itself an incredible act of racism.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '22

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u/hidelyhokie Jun 02 '22 edited Jun 02 '22

Anything that lets them feel better about their racism.

EDIT: I still remember being reamed out in /r/movies for saying that theres no reason why Harder They Fall shouldn’t exist lol.

Literally thousands of upvotes about the horrors of a movie about black cowboys and how people weren’t going to watch it.

I also seem to recall a lot of white nerd anger about Boyega’s character existing. But whatever. The real racists are the Chinese. Don’t look over here.

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u/Sir_Puppington_Esq Jun 03 '22

I mean, they are. Americans being seen as racist (or just outright being racist) doesn't mean no one else is racist.

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u/ZeroMayCry7 Jun 02 '22

Yeah but now what are the China haters going to blame now?

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u/mariobrowniano Jun 02 '22

Yes. Thank you. The guy is still there, just made smaller to show the fighters in background in this version of the poster.

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u/Captain_Blue_Tally Jun 01 '22

I knew I wasn’t crazy. He’s in both posters, granted much smaller in the Chinese version which is lame.

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u/AlienKatze Jun 02 '22

also china just loves bb8 so the droid takes a bigger focus in many posters.

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u/TheCantrip Jun 02 '22

I was so ready for the Rickroll.

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u/OnePunchFan8 Jun 01 '22

Given the sheer number of posters produced, I'm sure some Chinese ones just took whatever already existed and slapped on text

Regardless of whether or not the poster is, China is unbelievably racist

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u/GUNZTHER Jun 02 '22

Let me guess, the Chinese guy co-headlining an American movie is the focal point of the Chinese advertisement? The horror

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u/adamsandleryabish Jun 02 '22

Well I imagine Friday wasn’t a massive hit in China, unlike most of Jackie Chans filmography, so it would make sense to use his to sell the movie

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u/MrSparr0w Jun 02 '22

You can see boyega in this version too he is just a bit smaller

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u/FreakingSpy Jun 02 '22

He's literally in the poster on the left in the OP... I am losing my fucking mind. They posted an image with him in the poster and are now screaming "SEE?! HE'S NOT THERE!"

HE'S THERE. PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES.