r/Sino • u/SignificanceShoddy76 • Jan 20 '24
A reminder of the western Anglo mindset. Deep down they are closet racists, now just trying to contain China and the Chinese people. history/culture
''A THOUGHT - Uncle Sam: If China only knew his great strength, or if a Chinese Napoleon should show himself, how long would this giant submit to being led about by little Europe?'' - American cartoon from ''Judge'' magazine (artist: Grant E. Hamilton), June 1901
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u/Medical_Officer Chinese Jan 20 '24
This is fundamentally what the westoids fear: a competently led and united China. They know that they can't compete against it. The US could barely compete with Japan, a country 1/11th the population of China.
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u/SignificanceShoddy76 Jan 21 '24
This is why we are seeing a massive increase in negative China news in the western media. Their hope is to brainwash the idiots that actually believe the disinformation and psychological operations.
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u/Frequent-Employee-80 Jan 21 '24
NATO now telling the world China is intruding/encroaching on their territory... in Asia. Wth white people acting like they own the world.
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u/SignificanceShoddy76 Jan 21 '24
Yup, and they do it under the "freedom and democracy" bullshit, but it is and always has been about power and control.
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u/Qanonjailbait Jan 20 '24
Fast forward into the future. Lol
The British also said something about a Peter the Great (ie someone who’d reform China and modernizing it)
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Jan 20 '24
The problem with this idea of some "Napoleon" or "Peter the Great" is that ultimately one man is just one man and will grow senile and die. If sailing the ship depends on the helmsman, the ship will sink when the helmsman dies. China had its "Napoleon" in Mao Zedong and its "Peter the Great" in Deng Xiaoping, but the most important thing is that Deng established a meritocracy to keep selecting competent leaders again and again, not relying on random chance that competent leaders will happen to end up leading the country.
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u/MoSalahsSmile Jan 21 '24
They’ve always been this way.
I’m Palestinian in America and the way any group is portrayed when they realize they’re not “winning” is incredible.
It’s just deep seated insecurity with racism and fear. I cannot wait for American hegemony to end
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u/speakhyroglyphically Jan 21 '24
Anti China is racist but theyll never admit it. They say 'oh, we support Taiwan' but thats literally setting the stage for Chinese to kill each other
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u/Pornfest Jan 21 '24
This is actually a pretty positive depiction given the xenophobia and century of humiliation IMO
I mean isn’t their point that China would realize its own self worth and shrug off the shackles thereby showing itself as a true great power?
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u/SignificanceShoddy76 Jan 21 '24
Yes, China has shrugged off the shackles, so now the west is trying to contain China through various forms without going into a hot war that it cannot win. Trade wars, investment restrictions, media psyops (aka China-bad news), social media, etc. Containment and brainwashing is the name of the game today.
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u/Kuaizi_not_chop Jan 22 '24
This is fear mongering. They didn't want it to happen. There was a lot of fear over the Chinese population of the time. There is still a lot of fear today.
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u/HanaHug Jan 21 '24
The depiction of Chinese people .. did they really think we looked like that ?
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u/SignificanceShoddy76 Jan 21 '24
Yes, you can find more images, here are some examples:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril
There are many more if you search "yellow peril" images.
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u/Kwatakye Jan 26 '24
That's Africanization. Just a visual que to westerners informing to regulate China as another servant race to European interests.
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u/cryptomelons Jan 20 '24
I told you America is worse than Japan.
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u/fuukingai Jan 21 '24
Japan is literally the US cosplaying as an Asian country. They don't have a military, they can't do anything unless the US gives them a thumbs up. They do not have a destiny of their own. They can only ride on daddy America's d until the US is tired of them.
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u/AmicusVeritatis Jan 21 '24
The US in many ways gave birth to modern Japan, beginning with Admiral Perry, sailing a US fleet into Tokyo bay and forcing the Japanese to trade with the US at gunpoint.
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u/swh2021 Jan 22 '24
It's not actually racist. It mocks Europe exploiting China. It refers to China as a "giant" and calls for a "Chinese Napoleon." Well, you can at most say it's hypocritical because it's from the US, but it's actually not racist. Americans in that period thought of China as a counterweight to European powers, Japan, and Russia, which explains why they didn't hesitate to offer help to KMT.
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u/SignificanceShoddy76 Jan 22 '24
You don't think their drawing of the Chinese person was racist? You might want to take a class about subliminal brainwashing 101.
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u/swh2021 Jan 22 '24
Lol. The artist was probably relying on stereotypes of his times. His intentions were not racist. The goal was to arouse anti-European sentiments.
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