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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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I totally understand what you're trying to get at here, but that supposition ignores four (or more) very important realities about this country:
#1.) America has a large population who are already very intolerant of any asian group. This kind of thing just adds to that and makes it easier for people who are not in that population to join that population.
#2.) China is a communist country, which basically makes it analogous with the above, but for different reasons. There is a HUGE anti-communist sentiment with a large population in America, and again, this just adds fuel to the existant bonfire.
#3.) China is a top world power at this time, and they are only going to get more powerful very quickly with time. They are experiencing their population dividend right now. When was the last time you saw pictures of shanghai? This fact plays right in to the fear being mongered by this commercial and by right wing nutjobs talking about our evil Chinese overlords.
#4.) America doesn't owe Sweden it's collective weight of testicles and breasts in gold. The American debt to China is a very real threat to the security of a lot of people. More enlightened people see it as a very complicated and long-term business transaction, but it outright scares a lot of people.
There are probably more reasons why Sweden is a false analogy, but this should suffice. England would be a better choice, since they in fact do own much of this country, but there is not a strong undercurrent of hate for the English in this country, so it doesn't work either. You need to accept the fact that racism is a reality before you can understand why the implications of this kind of propaganda are harmful.
As for me being racist for recognizing this: lol.
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#1 Obsurd! Asian porn is the highest selling market of porn kind of hard to be intolerant of something the majority of America jacks off to when the parents are asleep. In all seriousness, asians are by far the LEAST persecuted ethnic group in the U.S, even Canadian's get more flack than the Korean's do. On the other hand asians are probably the MOST stereotyped, but let's just call a spade and spade cause they're miles ahead of mexicans and blacks in terms of white-bread redneck hate.
#2 Hating communism has nothing to do with race, we hated the Russians for years and they were white than the snow they passed out drunk on. Anti-communist sentiments stem from the fact that the word is near synonymous with people such as Stalin.
#3 Why you not hate a rival in the game? We hated the English, we hated the Russians, it's just part of the cycle of maintaining alpha male status... I am also fairly certain that the sentiments of the Chinese towards us is less than amiable as well, hell the Chinese celebrate every time Japan gets rocked by a national disaster simply because of the Rape of Nanking. There's a lot of hatred for each other in the world and it's not just right wing nutjobs here in America, because every nation on this earth would slit their rivals throats if they had the chance.
#4 The only reason people are threatened of China taking stage is because of reason #3, the People's Republic is not lead by people such as Ghandi, and is lead by people that have no qualms about flaying the skin off pacifist monks simply because the monk's ideology goes against the Great Leader's vision, which low and behold everything we do in America goes against the Great Leader's vision which is paramount to wartime communism (aka permanent revolution)