Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination (2018)
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#2The ongoing Chinese colonization of Africa is one of the biggest stories the western news media has absolutely no interest in reporting.
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#3With China being very homogeneous in terms of race, they never worked through those issues. I don't blame them. My grand parents, who lived in the countryside all their life would react in a similar way.
Small anecdote: I attended an English class at a Chinese business university. The teacher (young girl, never left China in her life) told us that everything "French" means "sex/porn/etc", i.e. "french book", "french movie". Funny, but tragic.
Also remember the racist ad for washing powder (girl washes a black guy and a Chinese jumps out afterwards).
They will probably need some slightly more tragic events and pushback to acknowledge it's a problem. Would be better if they learnt from the west's painful lessons, but my hopes for that are low.
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#4With China being very homogeneous in terms of race, they never worked through those issues. I don't blame them. My grand parents, who lived in the countryside all their life would react in a similar way. Small anecdote: I attended an English class at a Chinese business university. The teacher (young girl, never left China in her life) told us that everything "French" means "sex/porn/etc", i.e. "french book", "french…
> With China being very homogeneous in terms of race
Uh, no.
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#5With China being very homogeneous in terms of race, they never worked through those issues. I don't blame them. My grand parents, who lived in the countryside all their life would react in a similar way. Small anecdote: I attended an English class at a Chinese business university. The teacher (young girl, never left China in her life) told us that everything "French" means "sex/porn/etc", i.e. "french book", "french…
> With China being very homogeneous in terms of race Uh, no.
Uh, yes. For the country as a whole Han Chinese are 91.6%. The workers who go to Kenya are probably from coastal regions, where the ratio will be even higher.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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#6With China being very homogeneous in terms of race, they never worked through those issues. I don't blame them. My grand parents, who lived in the countryside all their life would react in a similar way. Small anecdote: I attended an English class at a Chinese business university. The teacher (young girl, never left China in her life) told us that everything "French" means "sex/porn/etc", i.e. "french book", "french…
I thought you were possibly exaggerating. There really is such an ad. Pretty horrible. I never heard of this news almost 3 years after the fact.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/28/china-racist-d...
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#7The ongoing Chinese colonization of Africa is one of the biggest stories the western news media has absolutely no interest in reporting.
Eh? Comes up quite a lot in UK broadsheet media.
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#8For the most part, Chinese in China don't have a culture of condemning racism like the US or other western nations. As apparent in the video, he isn't even ashamed of being called racist.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> With China being very homogeneous in terms of race Uh, no.
Uh, yes. For the country as a whole Han Chinese are 91.6%. The workers who go to Kenya are probably from coastal regions, where the ratio will be even higher. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Uh, no. There are fifty five formally recognized by the PRC including ones they're actively trying to exterminate (e.g. Uyghur). Within the Han community there is still a significant amount of diversity including countless dialects of the Mandarin and Cantonese languages. Your comment is a bit like claiming that with all the white people in Europe, it's not a very diverse place.
In contrast the Japanese government recognizes about four indigenous races.
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#10I think I posted this before but my old university buddy who's from Zambia, jokes with me that the Chinese are colonization 2.0
The Chinese government have no scruples which is why they are out-competing Western companies and governments in Africa, who are tied behind political and moral restrictions. Also the Chinese have a major resource in man power which they can deploy anywhere for cheap.