Comments on: How about this? Is this Racist?

By: YELLOW PPL

YELLOW PPL — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:46:24 +0000

If you think Yellow PPL CANT READ THIS is funny then you pls go back home You need kick in ur sack Very bad put on this information You are angry at everything seems You need realise us sick

By: admin

admin — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:45:57 +0000

I think you misunderstood, unfortunately.

“I’m not sure how long I’d last wearing this”
=
“I’m pretty sure I’d be in trouble if I ever wore this”

好好学习, sir.

Do you think the 白人看不懂 t-shirt is also sick?

By: the yellow man

the yellow man — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:03:16 +0000

LOL.

By: Silly Laowai

Silly Laowai — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:34:01 +0000

Racist? Far from it pengyou! You should look at the mirror and see how racist Chinese are to each other and how they don’t treat their own minorities well too! Chinese are bloody racist, but this guy isn’t!

By: The Humanaught (aka The Sorta Pinkish White Guy)

The Humanaught (aka The Sorta Pinkish White Guy) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:26:35 +0000

Murphy’s Law eh? Whatever can be misinterpreted will be misinterpreted…

I absolutely LOVE that 那个plz shirt. I don’t know why, but I can’t help but picture Mr. Ryan Wang wearing it.

By: China Law Blog

China Law Blog — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:08:33 +0000

China Racism: That Dog Don’t Hunt…

Not sure why the sudden onslaught of these posts, but three good ones out there all of a sudden on whether the West (and we Western bloggers, in particular) look at China through racist, post-colonialist or paternalistic eyes. The Humannaught started i…

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:31:58 +0000

“..Otherwise, you may very well be told — like Ryan was — “If you don’t like it, why don’t you go home?”..”

Now you know what it’s like to be an Asian-American in the United States. Sometimes when we criticize, and often when we’re just standing there, we get told “why don’t you go back to China,” when we speak perfect English and it’s reasonable to assume we were born in the US.

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:42:15 +0000

“If you think Yellow PPL CANT READ THIS is funny then you pls go back home You need kick in ur sack Very bad put on this information You are angry at everything seems You need realise us sick”

I think that answered your question regarding how long you’d last if you wore that shirt in China. Apparently its funny to pick on the white guys with the “白人看不懂” but….

For those asian americans in the US who experience racism in the US, is it as blatent as being followed down the street by packs of teenagers screaming slanderous remarks (dabizi! dabizi!) and pointing at you? Because that happens to the foreigners on the mainland a tad too much. I would assume its a little more subtle in the US, which probably doesn’t make it any better

By: admin

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:56:52 +0000

Yeah.
Subtlety or not, I would hope that sort of stuff doesn’t exist in any country.

Despite my dabizi, I don’t hear that too much. Laowai, or Bairen sometimes. Mostly laowai.

How I react depends on who says it. If it’s a kid or a countryside farmer, I’ll let it go. If it’s a guy about my age, I’ll usually strike up a conversation with ‘em — and that’s usually a lot of fun. They don’t expect it.

By: rynsa

rynsa — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:08:50 +0000

OMG! I’m late to the party, of course, but that shit is funny! My wife, a native of Hubei, couldn’t stop laughing! She wants us to get matching Y”ellow/White… “shirts for our next anniversary celebration!

Does this make us politically incorrect?

Well, whatever, it was good for a laugh. Thanks!

By: Ernie

Ernie — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:54:30 +0000

I used to watch Kung Fu and subscribe to the myth that those in the Celestial Kingdom were more refined and polite than us. I’d go out of my way to be deferential to Chinese in the States, and blush when one of my own was rude to them. Here in China, after the hundredth group of school children yelling the F-word at me, and the thousandth comedian asking me “Hollow?” then laughing like a hyena with his mates, I began to redouble my efforts on the time machine. No flux capacitors on Ebay, though.

By: Meg (who is pasty pale)

Meg (who is pasty pale) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:59:23 +0000

I want that White People shirt, although if I wore it at home, I’d spend the whole time saying “No, it’s not the ancient symbols for oneness with the universe” Haha!

By: dprk

dprk — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:22:16 +0000

Quote: On a bit of a side note, I feel fucking proud to have come from a culture where people can get away with stuff like the following:quotE

huh , the same culture where Glen Beck of CNN has asked islamists to leave the country if they dont like americans , the same “If-you-don’t-like-it-go-home” expression … … it always feels nice to puke on others :p