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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: what do you think of the racism among chinese people?
We usually talk about the racism of chinese against other races. But what do you think of the racism among chinese?. I think chinese are also really racist against their own nationals, you just have to see the kind of service they offer to other chinese. But it is really obvious to those chinese who emigrate to europe or america and go back to china for a short period of time. You also can appreciate that they dont like their own products, they recognize chinese manufacture bad quality and want to buy import products and food.
That isn't being racist but realistic. I have hope when I see enlightened Chinese opening their eyes on the problems existing in their country and culture instead of blindly blaming everything on foreigners.
Racism, by definition, it's discrimination based on the perceived notion of race. Example of discrimination based on race "Here, we won't serve Eskimos", or "This beach is reserved to white people". I don't think Chinese see races amongst themselves, but they definitely discriminate between each other based on provinces, exterior signs of wealth, etc... So I would reformulate your question as
"What do you think of the discriminations amongst Chinese people ?"
So, what I think:
* Chinese society as it is now is not egalitarian at all (ie. yes, it's always true everywhere, but I speak of the level & frequency of the inequalities in China), and the whole concept of egalitarian does not seems to float in the air. It seems most people here accept inequalities as a fact of life, and will peddle through own life to increase their wealth... and/or just accept it as a fact of the same order of "The Earth is round".
* Chinese people have an intuition on how things work in their own country. So they have a big problem to trust each other, sometime for good reasons and sometime by pure paranoia, which translates on (not always deserved) worship of anything foreign.
* I heard of routine discrimination based on provinces, typically Hunan/Henan have bad reputation as a nest of cheaters and scammers (disclaimer: I don't support this, I just mention it)
* Many people around me mention this kind of discrimination, and they never left China. They are quite passive about it, not because they accept it, but they feel powerless about it, as for most things in China. Education, mindset, blablabla, we talked about this ad-nauseam here.
Han, number one.....ethnic minorities, rubbish.....non-Chinese, outsiders not to ever be truly accepted.
Why?... b/c Han number one.
Exceptions apply.
Yup. I would not call it racism. It's just plain old snobbery.
China should feel proud. Snobbery is a sign of a developed country . Any child born into poverty has the chance to grow up and be a snob. It could be taken as a good indicator of social mobility.
Having said that, having a few snobs in society is much more preferable to the caste system in some other countries.
" I think chinese are also really racist against their own nationals, you just have to see the kind of service they offer to other chinese. But it is really obvious to those chinese who emigrate to europe or america and go back to china for a short period of time. You also can appreciate that they dont like their own products, they recognize chinese manufacture bad quality and want to buy import products and food."
Maybe you should invest in a dictionary. That's not racism.
But to answer the question, Chinese Han are extremely racist against other ethnics. It is openly done.
White people accusing people of other races of being racist... The irony....
DrMonkey:
Saying that white people have the monopoly on racism, isn't it racist, he ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Contemporary
Bradss:
That paragraph is obviously only there to make whites feel less guilty about their inherent racism. Isolated cases like those happen while whites continue to mass-spread racism all around them.