CHINESE LANGUAGE REVEALS NEGATIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS BLACKS The first character for the Chinese word for Africa, “fei” (非), means “to not be; not have; not; wrong; incorrect; lack,” and many Chinese look at Blacks with that definition as the core of why they limit contact with Blacks and want to keep them in certain neighborhoods. But the defaming slang used for people of color is “Black ghost.” When Georgetown’s basketball team played in an exhibition game in China about three years ago, a racial remark by a Chinese player sparked a bench-clearing brawl. In 1988, a violent mob of 300 Chinese people broke into African students’ dormitory at Nanjing University and destroyed their possessions — simply because they were African — while chanting “down with the black devils.” Although Africans have populated cities like Guangzhou, where 20,000 Africans (200,000 undocumented migrants, according to scholars) live, Chinese people hardly associate with them. Barry Sautman, a professor of social sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology who specializes in the issue of race in China, said: “In the media, Africa is portrayed as a house of horrors, with a huge number of people dying from diseases, wars and extremely high crime rates.” atlantablackstar/2015/01/16/7-examples-of-how-blacks-are-discriminated-against-in-china/7/
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:48:30 +0000
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