Chinese person here and yup, it mostly comes from consuming American media as far as I can tell but older Chinese people usually do not have positive opinions of black people. I've had a hard time convincing elderly Chinese Maoists who lived through WW2 and are as anti-imperialist as any western leftist that black people aren't lazy(and are the fucking backbone of our horrific economy).
Does the party have an official position on anti-black racism? Does it figure in the propaganda?
Like USSR was all in on decrying US racism. By the time I was eight I had to learn like three poems about oppression of black workers by capitalist America...
Yeah they do, in the recent instance of African tenants getting evicted in Guangzhou during COVID, it was the result of local government laws on housing and testing, but also racism, to some extent. Once the central govt became aware if the issue and promised to resolve it, they did so, and it no longer became a story.
China's got a way to go in terms of the people's perception of race (partly because of Western attitudes and partly because, due to economic circumstances, many of its people are still not as exposed to foreigners as you or I have), but the Central govt is not inflaming racial hatred, rather, I think they have a more mild anti-racist view on the matter. They're reporting a lot on the BLM protests too if I remember correctly, and it's mostly positive coverage supporting the protests I think
Guangzhou has a very visible African minority population, probably the largest of any mainland city. China like the rest of Asia is super colorist, and there's a lot of inter-ethnic developing world one-upmanship that goes on. So yes, many Han Chinese people are uncriticly racist--but not to the same systemic level in any way towards black people as what we see in the US. Anecdotally, black people often have wildly different experiences travelling in China, and often have the feeling of being treated more as a foreigner than as a black person, if you get what I mean.
Chinese person here and yup, it mostly comes from consuming American media as far as I can tell but older Chinese people usually do not have positive opinions of black people. I've had a hard time convincing elderly Chinese Maoists who lived through WW2 and are as anti-imperialist as any western leftist that black people aren't lazy(and are the fucking backbone of our horrific economy).
Does the party have an official position on anti-black racism? Does it figure in the propaganda?
Like USSR was all in on decrying US racism. By the time I was eight I had to learn like three poems about oppression of black workers by capitalist America...
Yeah they do, in the recent instance of African tenants getting evicted in Guangzhou during COVID, it was the result of local government laws on housing and testing, but also racism, to some extent. Once the central govt became aware if the issue and promised to resolve it, they did so, and it no longer became a story.
China's got a way to go in terms of the people's perception of race (partly because of Western attitudes and partly because, due to economic circumstances, many of its people are still not as exposed to foreigners as you or I have), but the Central govt is not inflaming racial hatred, rather, I think they have a more mild anti-racist view on the matter. They're reporting a lot on the BLM protests too if I remember correctly, and it's mostly positive coverage supporting the protests I think
Guangzhou has a very visible African minority population, probably the largest of any mainland city. China like the rest of Asia is super colorist, and there's a lot of inter-ethnic developing world one-upmanship that goes on. So yes, many Han Chinese people are uncriticly racist--but not to the same systemic level in any way towards black people as what we see in the US. Anecdotally, black people often have wildly different experiences travelling in China, and often have the feeling of being treated more as a foreigner than as a black person, if you get what I mean.
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