{"id":53139,"date":"2017-03-31T01:15:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53139"},"modified":"2017-03-31T01:15:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:15:43","slug":"china-has-an-irrational-fear-of-a-black-invasion-bringing-drugs-crime-and-interracial-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53139","title":{"rendered":"China has an irrational fear of a \u201cblack invasion\u201d bringing drugs, crime, and interracial marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has an irrational fear of a \u201cblack invasion\u201d bringing drugs, crime, and interracial marriage<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Quartz<\/a>
\n2017-03-30<\/p>\n

Joanna Chiu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nFeeling it in Guangzhou<\/a>. (Reuters\/James Pomfret)<\/small><\/p>\n

Beijing<\/a>\u2014Earlier this month in Beijing, amid the pomp of China\u2019s<\/a> annual rubber-stamp parliament meetings<\/a>, a politician proudly shared with reporters his proposal on how to \u201csolve the problem of the black population in Guangdong<\/a>.\u201d The latter province is widely known in China to have many African migrants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfricans bring many security risks,\u201d Pan Qinglin told local media<\/a> (link in Chinese). As a member of the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference<\/a>, the nation\u2019s top political advisory body, he urged the government to \u201cstrictly control the African people living in Guangdong and other places.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pan, who lives in Tianjin<\/a> near Beijing\u2014and nowhere near Guangdong\u2014held his proposal aloft<\/a> for reporters to see. It read in part<\/a> (links in Chinese):<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack brothers often travel in droves; they are out at night out on the streets, nightclubs, and remote areas. They engage in drug trafficking, harassment of women, and fighting, which seriously disturbs law and order in Guangzhou\u2026 Africans have a high rate of AIDS<\/a> and the Ebola virus<\/a> that can be transmitted via body fluids\u2026 If their population [keeps growing], China will change from a nation-state to an immigration country, from a yellow country to a black-and-yellow country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On social media, the Chinese response has been overwhelmingly supportive, with many commenters echoing Pan\u2019s fears. In a forum dedicated to discussions about black people in Guangdong on Baidu Tieba<\/a>\u2014an online community focused on internet search results\u2014many participants agreed that China was facing a \u201cblack invasion.\u201d One commenter called on Chinese people<\/a> (link in Chinese) not to let \u201cthousands of years of Chinese blood become polluted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The stream of racist vitriol online makes the infamous Chinese TV ad<\/a> for Qiaobi laundry detergent, which went viral last year, seem mild in comparison. The ad featured a Asian woman stuffing a black man into a washing machine to turn him into a pale-skinned Asian man…<\/p>\n

…Paolo Cesar, an African-Brazilian who has worked as a musician in Shanghai<\/a> for 18 years and has a Chinese wife, said music has been a great way for him to connect with audiences and make local friends. However, his mixed-race son often comes home unhappy because of bullying at school. Despite speaking fluent Mandarin<\/a>, his classmates do not accept him as Chinese. They like to shout out, \u201cHe\u2019s so dark!\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beijing\u2014Earlier this month in Beijing, amid the pomp of China\u2019s annual rubber-stamp parliament meetings, a politician proudly shared with reporters his proposal on how to \u201csolve the problem of the black population in Guangdong.\u201d The latter province is widely known in China to have many African migrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,12,16,1467,8],"tags":[221,22640,15463,26733,19497],"class_list":["post-53139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-asia","category-law","category-media-archive","tag-china","tag-guangdong","tag-guangzhou","tag-joanna-chiu","tag-quartz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53140,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53139\/revisions\/53140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}