Augustus Medici
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I might just be ignorant of China's history, but check out the anti-African sentiment in China twenty-thirty years ago that really surprised me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing...rican_protests
In a nutshell, the Chinese government had granted scholarships and stipends to China-friendly African countries in a bid for third-world unity. The part that cracks me up the most are the lines: "As well as resentment about the larger stipends given to African students, hostility from Chinese students towards Africans also flared up when there was contact between African men and Chinese women. In an incident in Shanghai in 1979, African students were attacked after playing loud music and consorting with Chinese women. These clashes became more common during the 1980s and sometimes led to arrests and deportations of African students."
"300 Chinese students, spurred by false rumors that a Chinese man had been killed by the Africans, broke into and set about destroying the Africans' dormitories, shouting slogans such as 'Kill the black devils!'"
I'm trying to picture these black students playing loud rap (or precursors to rap, anyway) in the middle of '80s Beijing, consorting with (probably fugly) Chinese women, and getting attacked by Chinese (male) students. If any of you have ever had the bad luck of meeting FOBs straight from China (being Chinese myself, this is unavoidable for me), most of them are insidious, arrogant, and generally unpleasant to be around. The immigrant students in particular are hard to tolerate, in my experience.
With this in mind, can you picture the yellow-on-black violence?? Guys dressed in Mao-field jackets attacking black guys (I can only imagine what African immigrants chose to wear in China twenty years ago)! Do you think it was like pipes and chains versus kung fu??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing...rican_protests
In a nutshell, the Chinese government had granted scholarships and stipends to China-friendly African countries in a bid for third-world unity. The part that cracks me up the most are the lines: "As well as resentment about the larger stipends given to African students, hostility from Chinese students towards Africans also flared up when there was contact between African men and Chinese women. In an incident in Shanghai in 1979, African students were attacked after playing loud music and consorting with Chinese women. These clashes became more common during the 1980s and sometimes led to arrests and deportations of African students."
"300 Chinese students, spurred by false rumors that a Chinese man had been killed by the Africans, broke into and set about destroying the Africans' dormitories, shouting slogans such as 'Kill the black devils!'"
I'm trying to picture these black students playing loud rap (or precursors to rap, anyway) in the middle of '80s Beijing, consorting with (probably fugly) Chinese women, and getting attacked by Chinese (male) students. If any of you have ever had the bad luck of meeting FOBs straight from China (being Chinese myself, this is unavoidable for me), most of them are insidious, arrogant, and generally unpleasant to be around. The immigrant students in particular are hard to tolerate, in my experience.
With this in mind, can you picture the yellow-on-black violence?? Guys dressed in Mao-field jackets attacking black guys (I can only imagine what African immigrants chose to wear in China twenty years ago)! Do you think it was like pipes and chains versus kung fu??