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Thread: The History of Chinese People in Early California
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[quote=YELLOWPERIL ,26435]Since Westerners have limited access to knowledge about Asia and its inhabitants, Westerners have created this fantasy that projects Euroamerican desires and dread on the alien other. Thus, as Western nations began to carve up Asia into colonies, their own imperialist expansion was in part rationalized by the notion that a militarily powerful Asia posed a threat to "Christian civilization." In the United States, this fear increased with immigration in the late 1800s. Many Asians came to the United States in search of work. Their work ethic and willingness to work for lower wages incited fear against this cheap labor as economic instability. In addition, as more Asians decided to take up permanent residence in the United States, the fear of miscegenation appeared. In addition to these fears which appeared in the United States, fear was growing in China. In 1900, the Boxers rebelled against Christianity, killing Western missionaries as well as the Chinese Christian converts. Thus, the "yellow peril" as "a sea of Godless heathens who would turn on their Western 'protectors' to torture and kill them" was born in the United States.With this idea reinforced in both China and the West, the media took off on this theme creating cartoons, comic strips, and movies using this theme of the yellow peril. One of the most reactionary aspects of the yellow peril concept is the idea of sexual contact between the races. The two most common fantasies portrayed in film are the Asian female seducing the White male and the Asian male seducing the White female. [/quote]
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