Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Horror of horrors!
CNN mentions Lou Jing, a mixed-race singer appearing on Chinese TV's equivalent of the Idol show.
CNN is Shocked, Shocked, Shocked at the vicious "racist" response by the Chinese audience.
Why shocked? Racial tolerance is historically recent, mainly confined to the Western Hemisphere. Chinese, Japs and Koreans do not have the concept of racial tolerance. Calling foreigners nasty names, believing weird stereotypes about foreigners: all perfectly normal in the Orient.
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Random dumb thought, semi-related: What would happen if a Black Muslim named Elijah X married a Korean woman named O Sun-Mi? If they used the modern hyphenated style, they would be known as Mr and Ms X-O. ¶ 11:01 AM
CNN is Shocked, Shocked, Shocked at the vicious "racist" response by the Chinese audience.
Why shocked? Racial tolerance is historically recent, mainly confined to the Western Hemisphere. Chinese, Japs and Koreans do not have the concept of racial tolerance. Calling foreigners nasty names, believing weird stereotypes about foreigners: all perfectly normal in the Orient.
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Random dumb thought, semi-related: What would happen if a Black Muslim named Elijah X married a Korean woman named O Sun-Mi? If they used the modern hyphenated style, they would be known as Mr and Ms X-O. ¶ 11:01 AM
