Lawlight said:
Never said:
I lived in china as well and they do have a race problem.
The ad is racist because of the context of the chinese attitudes to black people (Which they don't hide much). Anyone with dark skin in china is deemed bad, very unattractive, criminal, and poor.
It's normal for chinese people too say, 'I'm not racist I just don't like black people'. I've had conversations where people have seen photos where I'm eating with a black person and said, 'ewww, a black guy.' with extreme disgust and not realising there anything remotely wrong with acting that way.
Many people there don't have a very well developed sense of what racism is in most of the country. It's normalised and they don't question it. There's bigotry in china between chinese people of slightly different skin tones. Actual black people make them crazy.
The ad it ripped off was comparing a white slob to a black body builder in a culture where white people are the norm and made for a largely white audience. This compared a scruffy black guy in a culture that often overtly dislikes black people to a pale skinned chinese guy. |
So, which is it? Just black people or anyone with a dark skin tone?
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Both. They asssociate chinese people with dark skin with being poor. Farmers and people who work outside. This might be part of why there is so much dislike for black people.
There are also a very very small number of aficans in China and as a group they get associated in the media with drug smuggling. When I questioned somebody about some of his racist comments he brought up the "Dirty africans" and repeated stories about immigration being a problem.
China is not a very muticultural country. For a Chinese person to complain about black immigrants, when there are probably no more than 2 or 3 black people in his entre city, seemed strange.
Africa is also poor, and the assoication with povity might play a part. Many people in China seem preoccupied with gossiping about and judging people on their wealth.
