Being Black And Mixed-Race in China | Gen 跟 China
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2022
- Being mixed-race is often considered a privilege in China, yet Blackness can be stigmatised. Mixed-race Eurasian face filters and models are prolific on Chinese social media, but the same preference isn’t given to mixed-race Black and Chinese people, even though they are a growing demographic.
In fact, there is a small pocket of Chinese netizens spouting strong nationalistic and anti-Black racist views, which increased after changes were proposed to make it easier for foreigners to gain permanent residency in the country. VICE World News speaks to mixed-race Chinese people about their experience living in China.
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as a fellow asian this kind of racism towards people with darker skins are sadly all too familiar. here in Indonesia, there are still a large portion of the population who thinks darker skin tones are inferior in terms of appearance, and discrimination towards people who are of eastern indonesian ethnic groups are still way too common and normalized which is crazy.
Bro... that's Western propaganda and colonial mentality at works, and it infected so many people like a disease.
You don't live in the usa where 90% of hate crimes are committed by b people towards asians...there was a time last year where it happens almost every day in big cities and new york times even printed an article in the paper questioning if ny is safe for asians any more. There are plenty of videos of this , where a man stomped an old ladies head into the pavement with his boot. Asians all over the world sees this and we need to be more aware of these kinds of people. Naivete on the subject is not good especially when they will show zero compassion towards you
@@sew_gal7340 That's because the western propaganda trying to divide people, divert the focus from "class war" rich vs poor in their public policies into something else the "race war". So the easy target for manipulation is black people because they have been "sacrificed" in the USA, and they will be so angry on anything. The same thing in Indonesia it was "rich vs poor" until economy collapsed in 1998 May Riot. the focus diverted to attack, rape, kill and burn the Chinese minority. Furthermore, in the USA, the narrative is similar but the same, they said the Mexican steal the job so white people angry at color people. While the reality is and still until today that the rich are moving factories to cheap countries for dirt cheap labor, and create a huge gap between the rich and the poor.
Free west Papua
@@soupgod1448 West Papua will be free when Hawaii and Panama free. FYI Papua becomes part of Indonesia = ALL Indonesia lands are those that are colonized by the Dutch on S E Asia. East Papua is different, they were under the other colonial country the British gov. Get over it bro. it's over. Papua is part of Indonesia. Non Negotiable
I knew two sisters in China who are mixed race, Russian mother and Chinese father, they were treated sooo differently, the older sister being more pale and the younger one having a darker skin tone, Chinese people would praise the older sister and call her beautiful all the time, yet they will always question the parents of why their second daughter has dark complexion, it was so bad that the younger sister would cry herself to sleep and spend tons of money on whitening products, she would lock herself indoors because she was afraid of sun, of getting darker, it is sad, extremely sad.
Edited: when I say dark I do not mean black, or that she looks like other ethnicity, she had a darker complexion, meaning that she wasn’t as pale as her sister. He skin tone was more brownish! Which is completely normal healthy, and beautiful, Just like any other skin tone!!!!! I’m surprised how people in the reply section can take things so literally!!
Smh damn
@OVERwhelmed welp I wish it was a fictional story but it’s not:(
@OVERwhelmed obviously you have no fuckin clue what you’re talking about. me myself, i’m a quarter afro-curaçaoan, my skin looks beige while my sister looks straight up aryan. pale white, blonde hair, blue eyes. mixed race siblings can ABSOLUTELY have different skin complexions… y’know… almost as if your melanin production is determined by a variety of dominant/recessive genes like any other fenotype
@OVERwhelmed how is it not possible?
As a young generation of Chinese, let me answer your question. The whole of Asia likes beautiful people. We don't hate the skin color of black people, but the facial features of their ape-like appearance. Don't delusional use Your "progressivism" to change the aesthetics of the whole Asia. Nobody cares about you.
as a blasian girl who lived in Japan in my younger years, I can identify with all this girl experienced. I had English classes with an American (Caucasian) teacher, and the difference between his daughter's society treatment (child of a white man and a Japanese woman) and my own was quite obvious.
its nomal,in society when you look good people treat you better, mix with black mean degeneration, mix with white is not so people treat mix white kid better, because mix with black the kid is not only low IQ but dont have good looking too, see everywhere in Thailand, philippine, mix white can be super movie star or model, mix with black will get bottom of society because they cant compete both in intellect and beauty as well, only black people crazy to mix with other race, we are not
I think it’s because women are generally more prone to negative emotions and nitpicking moments. I don’t think most people care, I certainly don’t.☠️We all have things to do instead of staring at a kid.
We need more conversations like this, don't you think?
I think it would help fairer Asians to realize that this kind of attitude is shameful.
@@jameswang362 not shameful, you know "asian hate", hate someone or love someone just emotion, all want to live with true emotion, it never change. in western country people even hate black more than asia but there are not freedom of speech in western country but in asia we can talk everything we want because in western country there is no human right
I’m sorry to hear this😢 it’s horrible
I've been spat on, pushed in the street and called a prostitute for 'being a pretty white asian' and people just stand in utter shock when I speak Mandarin. They can't fathom that I speak it, even though my grandparents are Chinese! I've had people follow me like paparazzi, buy me dinner, drinks and snacks like I am a celebrity or did something brilliant like cure cancer but at the end of the day I'm an average person who got tired of being stared at and being asking the same questions. I feel for anyone who has experienced any prejudice.
It doesn't matter where you are from it's how you feel and the culture you were raised in, we are all human. Actions speak louder than words. Be happy make good choices and live life to the fullest and let people just.. Be.
Sorry to hear that you were mistreated by your people. May God be with you and provide for you; TianAi.
Asians aren't white
Omg, I can't believe the comments that I'm reading here. Chinese people are totally racists!!!! I really never want to visit China after reading this stuff!!! How can they be so rude??
"Pretty white asian"
This is why I hate that we don't use language that distinguishes being Asian racially from being Asian in every other sense, like we have White/European, Black/African etc. We should use Yellow/Asian the same way but of course that same people who see nothing about calling people who've never been to Asia "Asians" will accuse you of using a racial slur if you do.
@@Dennis-nc3vw never understood the term Yellow lol, that shit never made sence to me cause asians dont have yellow skin, its plain as day white skin just not called European because they arent from Europe and Europeans already took the White label.
the Asian girl with the glasses has whiter skin than many Europeans i seen straight from Europe, its just white with a softer look at least in the females.
Ive been living in China since 2013 as a teacher. My student told me just the other day "you are black" I said "thank you" she said "No black is not beautiful". These type of comments are so annoying. It never really gets easy. In the US I would be considered "light skinned", so I can't imagine how much harder it is for others with darker skin tones than me. EDIT: I am still living in China, my life here with my husband is great. I was simply sharing an experience I had with a student at school. Kids everywhere say ridiculous and ignorant things, if you are a teacher, you know that.
@@rafaelw8115
You're being harsh 😕
Your response to the black is not beautiful comment was what?
@@KimKim-dd6wj harsh but honest.
@@rafaelw8115 I don't need your pity, you can keep it.
@@rafaelw8115 why do you act like a racist? Im a light skin in the caribbean but in the netherlands im just a black man thats how it goes in de world .btw i got asian (indo) blood too do i have pick a side?
Thank you for bringing this issue to light. As a brown girl living in Beijing, I’ve experienced my fair share of discrimination. To the point where locals aren’t even willing to sit next to you on the subway.
the fact you said "brown girl" I commend you. I can write a five-part essay, but I am not.
Lol no need to lie my sister we all know your western media evil how it work
It's stereotyped in China about westerners and certain groups BO smelling more than others. Also most Chinese people don't like the smell of perfume or cologne. As far as discrimination colorism is prevalent in Asia as you already know. The other is a misunderstanding.
@Irving Shekelstein you are off point. I don't believe she is trying to force anyone to accept any of her ideas as she has not expressed any. But she and everyone deserves to be treated with dignity as a human being. Also you do not get to gaslight her about her own lived experiences. If you do not wish to be judged then you should not judge others either no matter the culture. Your comments seethes with animosity.
@@truthhurts...6574 are you aware MOST Asians lack a gene which causes sweat to smell and foreigners who live in Asia have a hard time finding deodorant because most Asians don't smell bad when they sweat? I've dated all types of Women from different races. I can assure you each race has a scent (some stronger than others). Ask anyone that question whos been in different interracial relationships.
My nieces are full sisters but their coloring is very different. It was so clear that people treated my younger niece better because she is "light" while her older sister is mostly ignored or called "a waste" of beauty because she was dark. It's ridiculous how many times I called people out for this, I would call them assholes to their face just to shame them for trying to shame children into insecurity for something they can't control. Asians in general are not phased with voicing out prejudiced beauty standards, but are really shocked when you call them out on it.
A friend of mine from Israel had the same experience. He was treated very different because his skin was lighter than his brothers. Imagine the hostility in such a place.
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Love you for standing up for her you are a rare gem ❤
I lived and worked in Hong Kong for 6 years and the negativity towards darker skin tones was pretty much the default outlook. I'm Scottish and have an American son (British passport pending) who is half Asian. He identifies as a white American boy, as far as I'm aware. Put him next to a white kid, he looks Asian, put him next to a fully Asian kid and he certainly looks more white. When I lived and worked in Hong Kong, I have to say the Eurasian women I met and observed were normally very attractive! I did meet a girl on the train from Hong Kong to Beijing, who was a mixture of White/Chinese/Black and she was absolutely stunning. She got the best DNA, from each ethnicity, as far as my outlook was concerned.
You know, which color of people attack asian most in America and Europe? We don't play the stupid game of political correctness. We only care about the reality, we don't want any violent DNA into my country, otherwise my country will become another Paris, full of rob, shit, insecurities. Political correctness will destroy your beautiful Europe.
@@warcraftSENSw I hear what you are saying, my ex from HK (Chinese) lived and worked in London for many years. She would often call me up for a chat and mentioned the levels of "black on yellow" crime. She was very much of the outlook that darker skins = bad. I'd also go as far as to suggest that her father wasn't too impressed that I was her boyfriend but we got along OK. The rest of the family and especially her Grandmother, were very happy with me. I've been fortunate to have travelled extensively and would offer that the majority of people, no matter their colour or ethnicity, are very decent people. I wouldn't discriminate anybody, based on colour or ethnicity, only on individual behaviour. The MSM would like to suggest that most people who look like myself, are the "racists" and live a life of white privilege. Having spent possibly half of my life as a, "minority", that would not be an outlook I subscribe to. At this point in time, especially in the West, certainly ethnicities and religions appear to be getting a free pass on unacceptable conduct, why that is, I have no idea but most people are not aligned with it.
@@gtd65 dont play propaganda here, you think asian is stupid, if you don't want get the fu*k out of our country but play political correct here doesn't work, we don't mix with them and no benefit at all,
@@gtd65don't be too rich, Europe is too rich to know the real world, you just use a simple moral standard to measure other world. Such as: Oh we should help Africans and mideast, they are poor people......... , I would be glad if the whole world become a family. But i find it's impossible, I know history, biology, human evolution. If you don't know, just learn a little before you destroy your Europe by importing those so-called poor immigrants.
@@warcraftSENSw Put down the crack tommy and go find some real job since your hilarious larp is too idiotic.
I remember this Chinese mother wouldn’t allow her daughter to be friends with my little sister and her friends because they were black. Sad thing is, her daughter wanted to be friends with my little sister and her friends because they saw her as a friend but her mother wanted her to be friends with these white students that bullied her and made fun of your culture/facial features/skin colour and “how she smelled”… It blew my mind how delusional and racist this mother was. Mind you, my sister and her friends were straight A students but because of skin tone, her mother made a judgment that those white students that won’t straight A students and had trouble in school were some how better!
i didnt understand the last half of ur text
@@eb.3764 Last half is based on a grading system in school, a straight “A” student is a student that scores 90% to 100% in each class and course. As well, am pointing to my sister and her friends being studious students that were well behaved in school, qualities in a school friend any parent would encourage their children to make friends with but this mother wasn’t taking that into account but instead skin colour/tone matter more to her. The students that her mother wanted her to be friends with won’t well behaved and won’t doing so well in school.
@@eb.3764 Because you can't read.
The older generation that grew up in the 60s, 70s and even 80s there is no hope left in changing them. Just focus on the younger and new generation.
@@silveriver9 its not about generation anything,., chinese ppl are actually like this
It's really messed up that not even a fashion model paid for her looks, can feel good about herself because outside the studio people call her ugly. It must create such an intensely chaotic and hurtful dichotomy inside her :(
If she has self awareness, she can hopefully remind herself of the cultural powers at play that fuel anti-Blackness. Being Black and especially a Black woman makes you a target in many places in the world. The level of violence enacted varies: some places it’s mostly psychological like this but other places could be more physical. I’ve heard stories of Black women being spit at, stalked, shoved, surrounded by crowds of bigots, etc… We all need to do better.
As a young generation of Chinese, let me answer your question. The whole of Asia likes beautiful people. We don't hate the skin color of black people, but the facial features of their ape-like appearance. Don't delusional use Your "progressivism" to change the aesthetics of the whole Asia. Nobody cares about you.
She's a fashion designer not a fashion model but yeah..
ALOT of us Far East Asian People (Koreans, Japanese, Phillipines, etc.) dont like China, many Chinese are insecure (why attack somone who is no threat, why need the comfort of attacking?; insecurity) rude bad racist people, not all but many.
Travel to the other East Asian countries far less racist (racism is everywhere but its much less than dirty China).
Black people are professional at going to other places than Africa then playing victim in a country that's not theirs
I'm a millenial Black African male, I went to Guangzhou back in 2012. I was shocked to see the number of Black People there. I personally didn't experience much racism. I thought the locals were welcoming and helpful. I saw a lot of Blasian babies which I thought were absolutely adorable!!! I even had one of the best nights of my life exploring the nightlife of the city. I'm not trying to invalidate anyone's lived experience, my experience should be viewed through the lens of having grown up in Apartheid South Africa where racism was in your face and unapologetic.
Thats Disgusting
为什么中国人的审美习惯你们也要Lecture?未免也太霸道了吧？中国人几千年都没怎么见过黑人，又不是白人搞三角贸易贩卖黑奴，你们这样说中国人对中国人不公平。
Yeah I’m Chinese married to a black man, we don’t live in China but go back to visit. My husband isn’t light skin black but everyone is always friendly to him. And people would tell me how handsome he is. I speak fluent mandarin so I’d know if people talk craps about us. Reading all these comments is pretty shocking to me. But yes not invalidating anyone’s experience here. I can only say our experience is quite different and personally know other black people in China who are also having great experience with the locals.
The fact that there are so many blasians despite inmigration of africans to China is very recent, its a sign that the chinese society is not so racist.
Chinese people migrated to western countries for centuries and only recently there are some mixed babies and mostly from white male asian female. Western countries are a lot more racists.
I think the fact that they labelled a person black and dirty are pure IGNORANCE. I can understand these kind of mindset by the older generation but not the younger generation. My heart goes out to this girl. I wished i can speak mandarin like her! her mandarin is awesome!. Gurl, you are an asset and a treasure and don't let anyone tell you different!
Yes I agree 100% . And as a white guy, I would date her in a minute without a second thought. I find her completely beautiful and intelligent. 👍
Hate is taught.
🤣🤣😂😂
@@bartonpercival3216 she is a beauty isn’t she.
@@danielle4295 That she is!!!!!! 👍
I'm so glad this is being talked about, as a blasian girl myself I have faced lots of racism from my Asian community but have brushed off their racist remarks because I thought I was just being sensitive, Wasians have always been perceived as the "cute mix" whilst Blasians are seen as the n word, Blasian's are always slept on with little to no media coverage in Asia and in America, it makes me sick to see that people specifically want a mixed child because it's a trend and a statues without thinking about the actual identity issues and racism that the child has to face because it's cute to be mixed, being mixed always comes with the baggage of feeling like a foreigner and both of your racial heritage not accepting you
I feel ya. We have always been perceived as the "cute" mix. Its fucked up.
Right? I’m Chinese and Colombian and totally agree
keep your head high i understand but u got see the good in whatever culture u are there all sorts of good and bad people in this world their racist blacks racist asians raacist middle easterns racist indians racist whites who colonized the world a century ago but as humans we all have been racist in a discriminatory some way blacks calling chinese asians C**** or Gooks thats a form of disrespect and Asians retalitate and i dont think good but we gotta to be kinder both sides and some Asians belive Africans blacks in the media as crimianls for the things in America being incarcerated being totally ignorant to the fact and not understanding as they see in the media that many are just simply innocent but arrested by the system so they fear them and then when they go to the shops they get scared then they get racist and call them the N word I think as humans we need to love more and be better so it goes both ways as humans and we got to learn to treat one another with respect is hard but love solves most answer why do people get into interacial cuz they dont want to racist both sides want to love and change the world and love another race as humans and bringing humanity and i know it takes a good father or mother both parents to teach their mixed kid the world and helping them be better and not racist or hate themselves. If political leaders who are people can respect one another why cant others.
Well, the thing about people wanting mixed white/asian children " is that it is a social thing but also a guaranteed result to have a "desirable/favorable" offspring that will be more likely to "succeed" and gain an "advantage" over others. It also contributes to genetic diversity. And the thing about this is that one day in China, the whole thing can flip and people will start to want black/asian mixed children. And the irony is .. in America, that is the case. People will prefer mixed race children because they are often considered desirable. Fact is, it's predicted by 2050 or 2060 that the majority of children will be mixed race in America. Personally, I think there's nothing wrong with wanting a desirable offspring to continue your bloodline. Reproduction is a base instinct. Although, no one can deny if someone only wants to have mixed race children for the sake of that.. that's a red flag.
Blasian women are GORGEOUS. I'll take 3 please lol Wasians are not imho particularly attractive people, even the Wasian tribes in Siberia aren't very attractive. They're not ugly, just nothing stunning either.
When I visited my motherland, people asked me why I looked so dark, I told them because I didn’t stay inside the house to avoid the sun like a vampire, I didn’t cover my body like an assassin during the day, I didn’t bleach my skin, I am South East Asian so it’s very normal for my skin to be tanned, I’m active and happy in my own skin.
I once thought like them, whiter skin is better, I did my best to keep my skin lighter, it worked but I was so drawn from it. Now I’m more grown up and living in different country with diverse beauty standards, my eyes has been opened and I don’t see only white skin beautiful, sometimes even opposite. It’s more about having healthy skin, dark white panda, doesn’t matter what colour skin you have, it’s beautiful when it’s healthy.
For those who has narrow minded, it’s not their fault, they are influenced by media, their network and society, if they have a chance to go outside of their land, open their heart to live and learn, they will view everything differently.
Because most people in China are prone to sunburn and skin cancer when exposed to strong sunlight without sunscreen, only by long-term and planned exposure to sunlight can they become bronzed.😅It's not that people do this on purpose.
Have you ever felt the stinging of sunburned skin? bro🥹
@@user-jj6mx3tc1g dark skin historically & globally has been indicative of field labor, most often reserved for the lower classes. It also harkens to anti-Blackness in a global culture that praises whiteness and adjacency to it as a status & safety measure. Darker skinned characters in media, when present at all, are usually ghettoized, sexualized and dehumanized, signifying uncleanliness and unintelligence. These are just a few examples but the most impactful example of anti-Blackness is the extents people like you go to to discredit it anytime it is mentioned. The explanations you gave re skin cancer may be valid, but don’t discount the impact that anti-Blackness has had on our current global culture, especially if your come from a place that frequently promotes skin bleaching as a beauty aid & praises fair skin as basically an essential trait for dating/marital partners. Again, these are just a few examples and I can provide more should you choose to remain hard-headed about this.
@@jm2307 China has only regional discrimination and cultural discrimination, but no racial discrimination! No matter whether white or black people do not conform to Chinese culture, etiquette and aesthetics, they are also discriminated against.😅
@@user-jj6mx3tc1g 😂😂😂😂😂😂ooooh LORD is that your reason really?
And you haven’t seen anything that told you a lesson on this video?you keep saying BS stuff?bless your little lying heart
Im a mixed blasian girl living in China and im glad more people are taking about the this.I have been bullied as a child.A lot of Chinese people have said “your not that black” to me as a compliment,even my Chinese grandmother.Once a old Chinese neighbor said to me”your getting whiter,good!”.It makes me really uncomfortable.Why do we have to be treated like this 😢
so your mother single mom ?
You should move to Europe or America
@@rolandolucasrojastorrico87 I cant.im a minor and my mom wants me to stay here until college
因为他们没妈
可能你是因为肤色而对这些话题更加敏感，如果是一般人当成调侃的话。 客观接受它就好
This video will always break my heart as half black and half Chinese
为什么中国人的审美习惯你们也要Lecture?未免也太霸道了吧？中国文化里就没有种族歧视的概念，中国人几千年都没怎么见过黑人，又不是白人搞三角贸易贩卖黑奴，你们这样说中国人对中国人不公平。
Eden is actually really pretty. I sometimes wonder what's wrong with people's so-called "beauty standards", honestly...
The Chinese are worried they might be yellow and brown like they used to be in the 1980s and even darker in the 1880s. These Chinese want to be white so bad, 😂 so sad!!! So if the US and other countries start kicking out Chinese people it would be fine, because xenophobic ideas are acceptable!!! Chinese are so racist and hateful to African people is evil. Karma will come to get China.
Beauty standards are in the eyes of colonizers and white supremacy. That’s what’s wrong.
Colorism because she has a brown tan skin tone that's why darker skinned people have it much worse cause they have to deal with both but regardless of skin tone everyone is beautiful
@@oreochocolate_lavacake9960 So I guess that Chinese would also have a difficult time accepting the beauty all of those DARK BROWN SKIN Southeast Asians, as well in Thailand, Cambodia who are generally more ATTRACTIVE from my observation than Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese all combined, because they have more "Diversified" exotic phenotype physical features.. But again, I don't blame Chinese for thinking so highly of their imaginable beauty which exists in their minds and not in other people, and not have an inferiority complex about themselves.. Yellow Reddish skin, as well as light brown skin is the most beautiful skin in the world, and ages more gracefully than pale ghostly white spotty and mole looking skin, as those kind of people tend to age prematurely .. The problem with many Black people is that they don't know their valuable self worth, and are seemingly always concerned about whether or not other races of people LOVE them as if that is a requirement ha ha ha, while those same people are not concerned or seeking any Black love.. It appears that Black people should do the same as I do, which is FOCUS on ourselves, and LESS on how other UGLY people sees us.. STOP trying to change these people minds, because they are not worth it at all..
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Jay Chou, the singer mentioned in the video, has long had a fetish half-white girls, even married one nearly half his age. I have several friends who danced for him and some complained that he put the Euro-looking girls out front even though they couldn't dance as well as their Taiwanese counterparts. His music is most heavily influenced by Black American R&B and Hip Hop, but he never admits this in videos, insisting that it's "Chinese style." 😄 Jay Chou, the Chinese -style-loving artist who loves his women white and his music black. 人白樂黑！😄 The world is indeed a strange place.
Thank you so much for that inside info!
Humans are such weird things lol
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woooooooow woooow
He must be my spirit animal then
I grew up as a mixed race kid (half British, half Chinese) in Guangzhou and Beijing in the 80s, and then Hong Kong in the 90s. While people would come up to me and my mum (mum is white and blonde), and stare out of curiosity (especially in the 80s when it was even more rare to see non-Chinese people in China), we never face any kind of racism There was one time when a man on the street in Shanghai berated my mum and I, started accusing us of for the crimes of the historical crimes of the west against China, but that was about it.
Fast forward years later as an adult, I married my wife who's Indian, and has dark skin, grew up in the US, and we go to Hong Kong every year to visit my family who still live there. She has faced way more racism in Hong Kong during out annual visit, than I ever have in my life that I lived there. One time at M&S (a British store), a Chinese security guard got all aggressive and told my wife that he was going to search her bag to see if she stole something. I saw this from a distance and went up to him and got in his face and asked if he's been checking all the other people leaving the store... He claimed he saw her put something in her bag, so I took her bag, opened in to show that nothing was stolen, and then asked him "where's the fucking stolen goods?" He started to back down realizing he got caught in his racist lie, and I told him to go get his manager, and reported him (not like it did any good)... I was about the fuck that guard up if the manager didn't come out. Another time my dad was showing his local Hong Kong friends a photo my my wife and I today, and one of his friends said "she've beautiful, but she's very dark". My wife, who grew up in the US, and acknowledges the problems with racism in the US, said that she's never felt more dehumanized as she has in Hong Kong, and I'm sure it would be even worse in China.
The reality is, there's plenty of racism towards dark skinned people in China and Hong Kong... Not just black people, but Indians, Pakistani, Filipino, Indonesian etc. In Hong Kong, Indians are seen as second class citizens, because there's a history of the British colonialists that brought them to Hong Kong as their servants, to do manual labor, so a lot of Indians in Hong Kong work in blue collar jobs, run Indian restaurants or are tailors. There's the racist stereotype that they smell, so I've had Indian friends in Hong Kong I grew up with, where if that sat down on the MTR (subway train), locals would get up from next to them to not sit with them. Filipinos are also consider second class citizens, because the vast majority of them are domestic helpers (maids) there, and racism against them is deep rooted in the system. Hong Kong has a law that states, anyone who lives in Hong Kong as a resident for more that 7 years automatically received permanent resident status. The government tried to make Filipinos be the exception, saying the law didn't apply to them, because they didn't want all these Filipino maids getting permanent status and laying down roots in Hong Kong. The government was challenged on their racism, so rather than saying they're not legible for the status, they created a law saying that anyone coming to work as a domestic helper in Hong Kong has to leave Hong Kong annually to renew their work visa, which means that Filipinos and Indonesians coming to work as maids would not have 7 consecutive years of living in Hong Kong, as their resident status is renewed after every year, so they're never legible for permanent resident status. The Hong Kong government managed to get away with it, because technically by law they are not discriminating against Filipinos, because technically Filipinos have the same rights as long as they're not entering as domestic helpers, but the reality is, since the vast majority of Filipinos enter as domestic helpers, they are the one's that get discriminated against. So, the racism is not just cultural, it's systemic.
I love Hong Kong as a place, there are many great things about it, I've many many great people there and in China, and it will always be my home first and foremost, but the racism against dark skinned people is real and common, but cannot and should not be ignored and swept under the rug. It should be called out every time it happens.
为什么中国人的审美习惯你们也要Lecture?未免也太霸道了吧？中国人几千年都没怎么见过黑人，又不是白人搞三角贸易贩卖黑奴，你们这样说中国人对中国人不公平。
I've noticed that this attitude about Filipinos is also common in Taiwan and Singapore, what a shameful part of present-day Chinese culture to create and oppress a class of labourers. There needs to be an economic upheaval to allow for the enfranchisement of these poor workers
This got worse & worse the further I read
Just move to Africa & don't come back 🤢
why dont you protest infront of embassy or something
As a mixed girl myself, I kinda get why the Chinese government doesn’t like it when foreign men come into their country, making Chinese women pregnant, and leave. Because this, although not in China, happened to me. My dad, left my mother pregnant in the Netherlands and left for the US even before he knew of her pregnancy. She had let him know she had me but there was never any contact. I grew up in a small town and growing up it really bothered me to often be the only colored one in a group. Even starting to hate my own color because I couldn’t understand how you can make a baby and be so careless about it? I grew up not being proud of my other half and it definitely caused some mental and emotional issues. When you’re born in a country and raised with it’s standards and feel a 100% that, but 9/10 around you sees you as foreigner and not their own, it’s really not right. I survived it but I wouldn’t wish that upon anyone. If you go somewhere and make a girl pregnant, stay ffs
Totally get you. Your experience sounds a lot like the experience of adapted children whose adapted parents are of a different race to them. It almost creates this split consciousness where culturally you feel like you belong to them but ethnically(which in many places is linked to culture) you're not. This is why I believe that successful interracial relationships, children and interracial adoption could only be done in liberal multi cultural countries like America, UK, Brazil, etc. Instead of conservative homogeneous societies.
Split consciousness, wow. I never knew a short way to describe the main issue but that says it all. You really do feel like you're two different people. @@lamontkhoza2856
This is an issue that greatly affects Chinese people's attitude towards mixed race. The essence of the concept of Chinese is cultural identity. If you are very "Chinese" culturally, then you are very easily accepted in Chinese social life. Some Western and African men are China treats sex very casually, which greatly conflicts with the traditional Chinese culture of seriousness and restraint in treating sexual relations.
I'm mixed and I feel like in general, mixed people with light skin are praised for their beauty while mixed people who are darker are not. I'm black and latina but have light skin while my sisters have dark skin, and I've definitely seen the difference in how we are treated. Breaks my heart so much. I am lucky to live in America where there is a lot of diversity. I feel bad for mixed people who live in these extremely colorist countries. Hopefully though, younger generations are able to change that and the world becomes more accepting of ALL beauty
Edit: wtf is happening?
Lol move over here we love that mix
It's not only about skin colour . It's more about features and hair types. Black people have the most unique features of all human races . People tend to focus about skin colour while in reality it's not that .
Latino isn’t a race it’s a ethnicity
@@minervaowl8298 I'm aware of that you incel. I never said latino was a race, just that I am half black and half latina. It's like if someone said they were half japanese. Japanese isn't a race obviously, their race would be Asian, but that doesn't mean saying they are half japanese is incorrect.
Omg me too I'm going through the same thing.
Very odd, considering the huge Chinese population in African nations. In my country, there are a lot of Chinese there, and they prefer to distance themselves from locals and look down on us, whilst benefitting from our resources & people. Black ppl are not wanted anywhere, so best thing to do is to focus even harder in building our own countries instead.
Africans should focus on building their backward countries and establishing political relationship with one another regardless if they are wanted or not in other parts of the world.
Chinese people are very distant no matter the country in Europe and the US it's the same
Hi! I like your mindset on building up your country, many people these days don't even want to work. Where do you live?
It is true that China has invested in a lot of countries (not visibly, more through the backdoor of politics) China is everywhere now.
I can understand why Chinese people love their country, it's nature is beautiful. But the politics, the human rights, those are terrible, one can't be proud of that.
The west has supported China (cause of the 3rd world country status) so much it's gonna be it's own downfall.
Agreed 100%. I PRAY that God will wake up the monstrous leaders in our continent before they allow them to drain our land of the wonderful resources we have. Sad thing is that outsiders always recognise the value in Africa while those horrible leaders do not. We really really need to fight for our nations.
@@mutelarsorhougbe4606 stop praying and organize to get rid of the leaders
The root causes are the "values" instilled by the media and older generations.
Growing up outside of Asia in a cold climate, I had the fairest skin. My relatives would always comment about it whenever I travelled back. I hated it and would literally choose the sunniest day to go for a run, paint the gate, do as much as I could to get tanned, to look more like my friends who were either tanned or naturally dark. I don't these days because where I'm living the skin cancer rates are extremely high.
I think the people who can't look past appearances also haven't met enough different people. For me growing up with a mixed bunch of friends during my childhood, and then meeting people from all over the world as an adult traveller, has made me appreciate that everyone is beautiful.
Australia
sound like a bunch of nonesense
Eden actually looks so much prettier than the average Chinese woman (no offense to Chinese women…as I am one myself lol). When I was studying in university in Beijing, I was so impressed by how beautiful a lot of the African students were. They are much taller than us, have a much more athletic build, have nicer bone structure, and much larger eyes. Their skin color was deep and reflected light a lot more than our pale skin. They looked like royalty compared to us. It left such a big impression on me, and that was over 10 years ago. Plus I’ve also noticed that black people age so much better than people of other races, even us Asians who are obsessed with paleness, sun protection, and skincare.
Everybody is beautiful to somebody else. The people who call you ugly are just insecure about themselves and how they look. I hope China (and the rest of Asia as well) can let go of these toxic “beauty” standards.
You are absolutely correct people who call someone else ugly are insecure about themselves. How is anyone able to judge another human soul when we are all children of the creator who made us all in his image much love solarlunar689 that is what the media wants everyone to separate when we are all bleed the same red blood
sound like self racism and try to get black people approve by your comment
I'm glad Vice and other forms of media are talking about this issue. As a long time resident of South Korea, I can tell you this kind of colorism and racism is present in Korean society too. Many Koreans try and deflect to how "racism happens everywhere". Of course that's true, but when they say this it's not to try and broaden the conversation but to deflect so they do not have talk about in what ways their society is racist or ethnocentric. We need to be able to tackle these issues in all the different countries and contexts it appears.
Meanwhile in america there is asian hate. Where asians are attacked. No wonder why they don't like them. They have every right to.
That kind of deflection exist in every country that has a trace of racism. The reason racism can’t go away. They will make all sorts of excuses than to deal with the elephant in the room.
They'll not talk about that cause it will drive all the K-pop fans away
K-pop steps on the backs of African American and African culture profiting off of the music, fashion even vocabulary while being racist to them...Koreans who survived the colonization of Japan in 1910 to 1945 must have suffered including racism....still chose to be racist to African Americans and Africans .
East Asians are experiencing lots of racism in Europe America Canada and Australia verbal and physical. Many are crying out but it's hard to feel empathy for them because of their racist mindset against other minority groups. I believe the saying what goes around comes around. Treat others the way you would like to be treated.
As a black person, ive never felt comfortable with the obsession to mix race. my parents are mixed but we dont obsess over it. i think its unhealthy and vain.
It you’re parents are mixed race, that means you’re not black. To be black, one has gotta have two, non-mixed black parents.
Unfortunately, a lot of Asians don't see it that way.... I've seen family friends disparage 'white babies' born from an Indian mother and white father, while praising pure indian children, even when the pure blood kid looks uglier.... One of the reasons why I avoid every going back to any part of Asia if I can avoid it...
@@knand9936 wait really I thought half white half Indian people are celebrated
Wait did you just say you're black with mixed parents? Because if so you wouldn't be black.
Mixed race people are more virile and less susceptible to illness and disease due to their genetic diversity.
Thank you for this insightful and very informative work. It really raises awareness towards race bias and unconscious racism. Specially against black people and descendants. I do believe that my grandfather faced a lot of racism is mid 50s by being half Chinese, half mozambican in china, even though he was very well educated and extremely intelligent. I guess when we people recognise the oneness of mankind and how we are connected in all levels (social, economic, environmentally) we will come united because we see everyone as equal. All these "races", looks, status, professions, are just on the surface of our own identity. "The world is but one country and mankind its citizens"
There is no such thing as unconscious bias sister. The people who cross the street or clutch their purses whenever they see a black person know what they are doing.
Get out there with that disgusting thing, black people destroyed my country and my ethnicity
Blm in communist country lmao😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 blm only capitalist country exist
As a black man, I have been to China several times and in general I found Chinese people warm and welcoming. Many times I have stayed in business districts where there are no black people and end up being a tourist attraction where people ask to take photos with me or some taking my photos secretly. I have experienced racism at only 2 incidents; one during entry at the airport in Guangzhou where I was scanned for drugs because I was black. The second time I was racially profiled is when I was entering Hong-Kong from China at immigration, this was the most disgusting moment in my opinion where immigration officers interrogated me for hours because I was black to an extent, I lost my hotel booking as I arrived late. In conclusion, to all our mixed race and African sisters and brothers, come home to Africa; we love you and let's build our continent together! Love from Uganda 🇺🇬
就好像乌干达的机场不检查中国人一样?
@@huiwang2957 We don't X-Ray people for drugs at our airport based on the colour of their skin. But of course you will never understand the point because you have chosen not to understand!
indeed
I don’t know how some Chinese people can have the audacity of being so against foreigners when Chinese people have immigrated to every single country in the world.
audacity is fitting
Like you said "some chinese" and wherever you go in the world there will always be "some people" who are either ignorant or racist. So deal with it the world is imperfect.
So the Chinese American have to be responsible for the people in China? Then is that means whatever Mexican (or whatever country your family originated) did wrong represents all Mexican Americans. This is nonsense and racist thinking.
china is a mono ethnic lol, the people who grow up there naturally would be culturally insensitive/colourist. they literally live in an echo chamber
@@tc2334 nah Chinese people abroad is still racist as hell. As a Chinese people living abroad I can confirm you that
It is not just China but East Asia. When I lived in Korea I felt so unwelcome. If I had a question I would be ignored. Same thing happened at markets. You could see that they wanted me to leave. Also a lot of discos only let in Koreans or foreigners they deemed passing. My white friend on the other side was always praised for her beauty because she is white. My first week in Korea just made me want to get home because I have never been treated like that in my whole life although I grew up in Europe. That was really the first time for me to experience racism
Go to Japan. Korea is a big scam, you guys should stop believing their propaganda that their country is perfect with kpop and shit.. At least China is not hiding that they are full racist and uncivilized comapred Korea. Anyway Japan is more open minded, way less racist and always make people feel welcome.
Koreans generally don't like anyone who's not Korean, nothing to do with skin color. And VICE is trying to twist China's beauty standard about SKIN TONES which began in the Tang Dynasty, into a skin color discrimination. This is called "Gaslighting". Only the mentally deficient buys it without question.
Koreans are on a different level compared to other East Asians, in north east Asia the Chinese are actually the most tolerant having historically mingled with other races due to being traditionally an imperial continental nation.
Plastic surgery
@@oxvendivil442 the most tolerant country is locking up the uyghurs in prison and only pormoting the han chinese? pfft gimme a break.
Unfortunately, it's going to be nearly impossible to change this point of view in China or the rest of East/Southeast Asia. For thousands of years, people there fell into one of two classes: those who worked in the fields (and got really tan) and those who didn't have to (who stayed pale). Most of us have skin tones that can change drastically depending on how much sun we get. So the discrimination against darker-skinned people is primarily rooted in classism and that's going to be very hard to break as a habit. I can't tell you the number of times my own friends/family/relatives in Asia have told me that I'm too tan and it's ruining how I look compared to when I was younger and paler. When I try to explain to them that in the U.S. tans are actually desired by white people it just blows their minds. Now I'm not saying there isn't some ethnicity-driven component to it--the influence of the West has certainly guaranteed that there is--but it's by no means the primary reason for these unfortunate Asian beauty ideals, which very likely predate the discovery of the New World.
That’s a pretty weird sentiment to have. Europeans literally had the same mindset until being wealthy became associated with travel to warm places. Now they buy tanning products and risk getting skin cancer to get that look. I constantly have to hear the anxiety of whyte people around me not wanting to look too pale and how gross they think they look when they are. Beauty standards are highly malleable. I mean people were literally binding their feet two minutes ago and now people are repulsed by it. Unfortunately, the anti-blck sentiment in Asian communities will always make it hard to overcome that. The class association is much easier to manipulate as wealthy people are the ones that set the standard. But racism is illogical and you can’t rationalize your way through that. So hopefully younger people continue to embrace their own natural Asian beauty and in turn that opens their mind to appreciating others. I think the interest in even basic things like hip-hop makes people more open to expanding their beauty standards.
I’m Chinese but I have to admit that the beauty standard in China is single-minded and ill. Although not everyone, there are people who are vicious towards not only the black, but anyone with darker skin. My husband is from India and we are visiting China this fall. To be honest I’m a bit nervous about all the judgements we might be hearing.
Thank you for bringing attention to this matter. When working in the Mainland and Hong Kong six years ago, I could tell there was a sense that some mixes were better than others. While mixed white/Chinese individuals have their issues with identity and discrimination, I think its safe to say that those who are mixed Black/Chinese have a worse experience. Eden's experience was very sobering. Here is someone who grew up in Beijing and speaks Mandarin (with traces of the Beijing accent) and she's met with casual, outright discrimination. It reminded me of my half Chinese/half Filipino identity. Let me be clear, my experiences were probably nowhere as bad as Eden's, but I definitely felt discrimination in Hong Kong, when I had to lie about my Filipino side at my job. China (and the rest of the world for that matter) still has much to go in terms of dealing with Blackness/brown/dark-skin prejudice and discrimination.
As Chinese, we don't need America's garbage "progressive" culture, we will implement the superior race theory in China, your objections are worthless to us.
Skin tone is part of beauty standard in China since the Tang Dynasty, there were no Blacks in China. This has absolutely nothing to do with race, you need to face your own Inferiority Complex. VICE's Woke Culture gaslighting videos are made for the mentally deficient, don't be a sheeple. Racism is real in the US, but not in China.
Who cares
A decent amount of ppl care. Not everyone is so stupid not to care.
mixed white have no issues with discrimination. they only deal with people who are have an inferiority complex or worship them. that is how orientals are.
I love how they do not realize that they are saying they themselves are inferior to the Caucasians they aspire to be. Be proud of who you are no matter what your skin color is
U right . Dey worship the caucasian, we blacks don't. Dats why dey respect us.
@@ajuli even many africans worship Caucasians too, not the african-americans because they are socially conscious.
Well some Asians are white skinned and some are brown. I think pale skin is seen as being upper class in some Asian cultures
The Asian obsession with lighter skin predates meeting with Europeans. Look at their ancient artwork, they'd use white paint. Light-skin has been seen at the standard of beauty around the world before Europeans met them.
Yep they are obsessed with them
Thank you for sharing this very important issue. And I have to say my experience: in some countries I'm considered as a woman with darker skin while in others I'm called "the fair skin foreigner" This is all about the cultural baggage and how open or narrow minded people are. I'm latina and I'm indigenous. And I'm proud of my origins.
Having a conversation with a former Chinese friend, after hearing him 100 times saying how amazing is everything that comes from white people, I had to say: "Please, decolonize your mind. Not everyone who has white skin or comes from European countries is better. Wake up buddy"
I believe this conversations are important to change minds.
@Yeheng Music He reacted totally avoiding new conversations with me and then I took the decision to detach myself from that forced friendship ☺️
Hhh, now we disregard White people as well. We looked up to the European countries simply because they were more advanced and prosperous than us. Now? They look like they are from the medieval ages and haven't developed an inch. Of course, we never give a damn about the black people. Why should we? What barbarians are they throughout history? Any notable civilization? None. Why should we fucking respect the weak and enslaved?
Yeah I am proudly a racist and a nationalist. Want to earn respect? Fight for it.
@Yeheng Music U.S.A.
@@beowulfhrothgar hello nazi
I’m married to a chinese guy we both born in South Africa and I’m mixed raced Muslim we refered to as malay because most of us come from Malaysian genetics how ever once me and my husband have kids I will not be visiting china because I would never want my kids to feel like they are not enough my husband loves me regardless of my skin colour and it’s not always been easy with the elders in his family because not only am I not Chinese but I’m also Muslim and his now Muslim aswell and it’s messed up because I’m not even dark at all im not even much darker then my husband and he is very light in complexion I also remember we once had lunch with his family that visited from out of town and his one cousin was married to a white guy and they have a son so my mother inlaw said that child is not Chinese so it’s not only black people chinese people are just racist in general and I’ve managed to learn some Cantonese and I always hear my mother inlaw calling black people racist stuff in Cantonese it’s just really sad tho see how small minded they are especially when living in a country like South Africa where we have so many different races for decades and interracial marriages and relationships are very accepted and normal here it’s not uncommon to see white and black people and Chinese and Malay etc it’s just a norm we see it everyday just going to do grocery shopping or taking a walk it’s normal to see this
I hear you fellow Mzansian.
I have seen comments here questioning whether she is really suffering from racism that much since she has managed to become a model and run a successful fashion business. I think her being a model does not necessarily mean that she is more accepted. I have observed that in a lot of countries that while they are often racist towards black people, conversely they are also drawn to many elements of culture associated with black people (such as the music and fashions) and find them very cool.
For example, a lot of the songwriters in the Korean pop industry are black because there is this notion that black people write better music. But does this mean that black or mixed race people are one step closer to appearing in pop music or as the face of Korean pop music companies? No, not at all!
And while there are also flourishing industries of Hip Hop and R&B music in many Asian countries which resemble the black music culture's that they came from in almost every respect, they don't involve actual black people. Sometimes this is simply because there are few black people around, but sometimes it is a case of liking and idealising the culture and aesthetics but not the skin tone (kind of like going, "This is awesome, but you know what would be even better? If we replaced your colour people with our colour people in your product (yeah, now everything is perfect)".
So there is this real juxtaposition; sometimes someone can find another person cool and yet look down upon them at the same time. And I think that this is the juxtaposition that this mixed-race lady finds herself in; on the one hand, people think she has a cool style about her (and might even view her style/aesthetic as being cooler for the fact that she looks somewhat African) and they want to buy her clothing and yet, many people want to keep her at a personal distance from themselves. And if they do want to hang around her, it might be because it's less because they like her for who she is and more because of some sort of perceived token coolness or credibility that they think they'll gain from certain circles of being associated as having a friend who is black/mixed race.
It's kind of like a case of going "I think you're really cool (and I'd be happy to have you as a friend), but I might not feel totally at ease about you being around ALL of my friends, I would feel less comfortable about you meeting my parents, I would feel even less comfortable about going out with you (even if I felt very attracted to you) and would certainly NEVER consider having children with you because of the colour babies we might produce together".
Even her friend who was a totally platonic friend (so looks shouldn't have mattered!), still couldn't help himself from telling her that she would be "more ideal" if she was white-mixed race.
Is this racism or is this improved acceptance? Of course it's still racism!
If the "acceptance" of a black person is a superficial result of tokenism or is fueled by "positive stereotypes" of black people, then it's still racism as it still ultimately boils down to treating people in particular ways based on their skin colour (and that is wrong).
People should not be valued or discriminated based on their skin tone, but instead be valued by their conduct as a person and how they contribute to society. A society which judges by skin tone is not a meritocracy because skin tone is a false merit (it says nothing about your actual intelligence, abilities, heart or kindness, etc). Even "positive" racial stereotypes are negative ones as they're often based on the same screwed up logic (eugenics) as the negative ones and ultimately miss the point, which is that the only thing your skin tone says about you is the amount of melalin you have (and nothing else).
Everytime someone is promoted or praised for being pale (despite not actually being that smart or competent) and everytime someone is made to feel bad or held back for being dark (despite actually being very smart or hard working), is another incident in society where people might end up with a poor manager running a company or miss out on a great person succeeding and helping improve society and being rewarded fairly for being a good citizen.
For as long as people judge others on skin tone and beauty, the worse or longer problems like corruption, wealth inequality, marital abuse, economic "brain drain" and other issues will persist for. For everyone's sake (including our own) it is vital for the good of society that we stop letting ourselves become so divided and manipulated over matters such as skin colour, start tackling discrimination and start treating and rewarding people for who they actually are.
It's so strange that in nations that glorify science like America & China can't get past a superficial aspect such as brown & dark skin color. Which is part of nature's way of protecting against UV rays ...This does not show a level of sophistication about biology or science ..but a outdated racial hierarchy ..which really has no place in the 21 century ..For humanity to move forward it must drop all these ignorant notions of " race " which is a construction which started in 19th century ..Least we forget that the racial group called Asians ,& it's phenotype along with yellow skin was considered a sub group & not completely Human by Europeans..
You hit the nail on the head
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This basically boils down to them hating their own Chinese features. They suffer from the same self hate as some darker skinned ethnicities do. Sad.
Very true. They complain if actors of Chinese descent look too "Chinese" in Western movies!
However, Chinese people have no self-hatred. Aren't Chinese people light-skinned? Moreover, Han chauvinists, white, dark-skinned yellow and black, are discriminated against, but they are generally cultural discrimination.😅
@@user-jj6mx3tc1g No there is self hate, lets not pretend. Chinese worship white features, it's embarrassing.
That aint it dawg. Its actually the complete opposite. Blasians almost never look asian. White asians almost always look asian. Blacks just can’t stand that people prefer their own features over theirs because they still can’t accept their own features
I've also seen this in some white people in the US. More people these days think mixed babies are beautiful these days because of their unique features, but some people then make a comparison to "less beautiful" white babies. I found it an odd way to think
In China, liking white skin has been an aesthetic standard that has existed for thousands of years. Because in ancient times, the whiter skin usually came from the upper class, who did not have to farm in the sun, and farmers had to farm in the sun every day
Completely agree that people fetishize half-Asian/half-White kids, and turn squeamish when the kid is half-Black. Blackinese kids are awesome. To my fellow Chinese people: up your game, man. Fetishizing half-Whiteness but dissing half-Blackness is totally lame and classless.
But what's funny is SJWs consider fetishizing "oppression" when it happens to non-Whites, and "White Privilege" when it happens to Whites.
dissing both is fair to me
Eden is stunningly beautiful! It’s so sad that mixed race people always face unique challenges no matter where we go :(
Haha not true mixed race people are praised in the black community
She’s sooo beautiful!
@@sandratran8335 I know right!!!
Beautiful?
where ? why cant i identify this beauty that u are talkin about?
PS : No ,biatch im not blind.
Depends, my children are mixed race and face no challenges
In China, 2010, co-worker sends me an ad for a company seeking to hire an American teacher. The ad said the school wanted a white female teacher only. I turned to my co worker who wanted me to post this to a U.S. jobs board, and she said “it’s not racist! They want a white teacher, not a black one.” It was not immediately apparent that she understood that what she was asking me to do was primary facia racist. The office I worked in employed black and white US foreigners. I did not have a chat with the other teacher (who was black about this) because my co worker became very embarrassed after I explained this to her. I had arguments with lovely people about wether Chinese society was racist. As a good guest, I offered an explanation but then was polite in agreeing that “of course, there is no racism whatsoever within Chinese society, at all, of any kind”. Right!
you're part of the problem, d**a**
Some are some arent
And totally glossed over the sexism. Nice! *the ad probably referred a single female
racism are everywhere even in Australia!
Also means this (foreign?) school didn't want Chinese or Asian teachers, so that's racism to themselves too or in the West it's commonly called reverse racism.
The skin colour tone "preference" if you like to call it comes from an ancient time where lighter skins were mostly the wealthier upper class citizens, those who would stay inside whereas darker tones where usually the lower class, working outside under the hot sun. And remnants of that ideology still exist to this day for sure.
But to try to stigmatize an entire country showing the experiences of 2 people and 10 comments regarding them is just as VICE as it gets. I am sure there are more cases but nothing compared to the west. Personally as a white I am feeling more welcomed in China rather than when I was living in UK for example(since I am white, but not British).
And if you think China "discriminates", go Japan or Korea and feel the difference.
But in general these countries opened up to immigrants from other nations less than 50-40 years ago. So I would personally say that they are doing great.
We got mixed up in the west hundreds of years ago and we have been living together since then and yet in 2023 we are still talking about discrimination and racism and nationalism there too.
So instead on blaming on China everything media tells you too. Maybe develop critical thinking and start seeing the bigger picture.
My mom is half Korean , she never mentions her Korean side, she grew up in haïti and fully identifies as haïtian/afro-caribbean, she as never once eaten Korean food , her mom learned haïtian cuisine and never fed her anything Korean related, and I identifie as haïtian/afro-caribbean ethnicity wise and as Canadian-carribean national wise
self hatred for the korean side wow
Well if as a race, you think mixing with a lighter race makes you better, than you are probably harbouring deep feelings of inferiority. So the problem is really that you are looking for a perceived lower darker race to make you feel better about yourselves.
100%.
They do
this comment should get all the likes
no. its that whites are seen as more intelligent therefore respected more
Great! Direct to the point.
I'm Asian but was born in the UK. I moved back to Asia in my 20s and stayed for 5 years. And I have to say, Asia's standard of beauty is completely backwards! The more you look like a damn cartoon character, the more good looking you are. The out right racism I experienced there was something I've never dealt with or seen in my entire life. Allot of this has to do with the elitist class and just how much of a social and political barrier there is. It's literally taught in schools and runs deep in culture. It's really sad and completely frustrating.
Not all countries in east asia like the kind of looks , like japanese people dont like when people looks too cartoon, if u have cute face u re beautifull in japan its not matter ur skin color(japanese industry love natural beauties) but country like korea u re beautifull if u just look like cartoon character(big round eyes , high perfect nose bridge, pale porcelain skin , v shape , etc).
Thats why so many asians american actors/actress looks different celebrities from asia countries, Lucy liu when she was acting in china she was very pale , using alot of make up,etc , but when she came to usa she start show her real skin , she has beautifull freckles(if u have freckles in east asia u re ugl*).
But i can tell u beauty standard in east asia in general its very high mainly in korea.
@@Ok-oo2kh Um, no its not. They all look, and act like lil kids, smh. Talking abt high standards. Ppl are soooo delusional.
@@mazezace whats!?
@@mazezace why u re so mad!?
Philippines have been obsessed with the whole beautiful mixed babies movement for decades.
mix white not black
Yep and most think they’re Spanish but truth is most aren’t.
As a blackman Reminds me of how hard Chinese international students in my class tried to befriend white students who mostly did not want to be friends with or even be in working group with them,I felt so bad for them so I intentionally joined their groups and because of how I felt white students treated the Chinese,After the course I realised the Chinese students who I was always helping were only interested in using me to pass their course,been to China and other Asian countries and the ignorance level can be scary,ghey wouldn't think twice killingba black person or framing them up
As an American that's mixed Asian and Black, I lived in China for half a year and dated a little bit. Chinese men were so obsessed with "trying/sampling" a Black woman, but it never would get serious. They objectify you and degrade you to only a sexual being most of the time. It's interesting that they think Black men would just have babies and leave when I think a lot more Chinese men (& women) have had kids and just outright abandoned the baby.
I don't have darker skin, but I was even called the N word in Chinese so many times. I can only imagine what they really say online behind their little screens and fake profiles. This documentary probably censored the nasty comments to be more digestible ones. I can only imagine its way worse than what we're seeing here.
AS a black American in China, I feel the same.
It's so disgusting. I feel like black women are seen as a little bit of fun in many places. A guy i knew told me his classmates said, they wanted to try out a black girl once, like a piece of clothes, that they throw away, when they tried it on. I am from germany, so it isn't just chinese men.. Humans are the worst.
@@soleil7259 THat's true of a lot of men. There are black men that want to try you name it kind of woman. White, Latina, Asian, Indian, Arab, whatever, and smash and that's all. That's a male thing. Because, as you say, it's a human thing and basically it's males that want to see if someone who looks different is different.
There are going to be exceptions that will be any "race" and fall in love and see the other person as a person, not as an Asian or black or white or mixed, just who they love. And I didn't see in this documentary the Chinese people are are against treating Black or dark skinned people poorly. I'm sure they exist and will voice their objections.
@@benjaminsmith2287 You know whats the worst thing about this ? People are not upfront with what they are looking for. No they deceive others first and act like they have feelings just to hump and dumb. It's absolutly shitty and digusting. So many people play game. Instead of saying: I am looking only for a one nighter and that's it.
I have lived in China too and I believe the original post right away. However: the things Chinese people say behind your back are probably not that much worse than you might suspect. Being super-sensitive (and thus often dishonest) about race is a very American thing and Chinese people are super under-sensitivized about it. So a lot of what they think in racial terms they just say it openly.
The total irony of them saying African men are abandoning their children is that there’s a growing number of Chinese men in Africa doing THE EXACT THING to African women and this has been happening for years.
Projection at it’s worse.
Exactly
and doing things to little girls. They don’t wanna talk about that. Their numbers of them doing this are MUCH higher than vice versa
@@browniiii Do you have any evidence of this? Please bring it out to the open, print it, plaster it all over the Chinese embassy in your country. Don't just be quiet and make a comment on RUclips, please. Do more.
@@pepinkd2843 yes. This channel has talked about it. I have also come across many videos of Asian men recording little girls on Tik tok. I will post one for youz
Being half black in Italy is very similar experience to being half black in China.
Does anybody know who the academic woman in the interview is?
I was called 'black pearl' (黑珍珠) quite a few times when I visited Beijing which my Chinese friend later told me was the name given to a pretty black girl. I only visited for 3 weeks though and I'm sure I would have experienced racism if I lived there. I know there's preferential treatment towards half-white mixed kids over other mixed races and my Asian friends have directly told me that themselves. Many of my Asian friends have said that their parents would let the bring any race home as long as they were not black. Or 'as long as they're white (or their ethnicity) then it's okay'. It's a serious issue
In China (Asians in general), Blacks are often associated with drugs.
And in most Asian countries, owning drugs = death penalty.
It's not the only concern, but certainly one of the main.
@@gold9994 I see. The majority of black people I know including myself have never touched a drug in their life so it seems like a stereotype produced by music and media.
@@Mariamomo_ If you watched some news in China (drug traffickers) most of them are blacks (africans; not americans).
Then the people generalize them.
@@Mariamomo_ I'm Chinese. There is racial discrimination against blacks in China. I can't deny it. I don't want to explain anything, because I can't change the stereotype of many Chinese people about black people. Even in the United States, a very diversified country, a country where black people can be president, racial discrimination still exists, and China is even more inevitable. It is very regrettable that the black people living in China have done nothing, no drug abuse, no crime, no theft, but the Chinese people around them think that you are a very dangerous person. These stereotypes are very deep and regrettable. We can not change them because our country is not a pluralistic country. We are a single ethnic country. There is a black woman named Rose in the Chinese version of tiktok. She has millions of Chinese fans in the Chinese version of tiktok. She is well integrated into China. No one discriminates against her, and everyone blesses her.
@@nacy8563 Thanks for your comment! I completely agree with you. No country is perfect, there is definitely racial discrimination in the west even though these are countries where all kinds of races have lived together for decades. Of course it's not surprising that a homogenous country would also have racism and stereotypes from not being exposed to other people. I had a very good time in China and I would definitely visit again. I just wonder if these stereotypes will ever change in the future.
I'm learning Mandarin and Korean but sometimes racism makes me not want to learn at all.
You will meet nice people using those languages. Yes there is racism everywhere around the world, but don’t let it stand in your way to do what you enjoy.
@@colouredwinds Thank you. 💜
You should learn. how are you going to know if they are rude to you?
@@gladys8060 True.
Not all Asians are racist, is what I tell myself, and as an ambassador for brown people, when I travel to other countries, I allow them the chance to get to know me and not what they watch through media. Maybe you could do the same?
For some reason some Asians specifically Chinese, Koreans and some Japanese love seeing mixed white and Asian….but let them be half black it’s looked down upon in the older crowd so so sad! And those children are so beautiful and gifted. Breaks my ❤
no, this kind of kid doesnt has future in asian country, they will suffer and bottom of society
The government is obliged to teach children and citizens racism is not acceptable and offensive.
Is it not your behavior that cause racism, stupid, violent, looting shops, ugly. That everyone think about you
My sister is dark skinned and was friend with a Korean-Chinese-Japanese girl. When her mother, a Chinese woman, saw my sister with her daughter, she thought my sister was selling drugs to her daughter.
How was she Korean-Chinese-Japanese? She has 3 parents?
@@albertdittel8898 one of her parents are probably 2 out of the 3
@@albertdittel8898 it’s not hard to figure out
@@albertdittel8898 her father was Korean-Japanese and her mother Chinese
That's due to American TV series.
As I've discovered living in Asia now for several years, this is by far the most racist part of the world I've experienced. The blatant comments and discrimination towards foreign people would be virtually unheard of in other regions nowadays aside from some extreme views, but in Asia it's out in the open and commonly accepted - particularly against darker skinned people.
Unfortunate, but also a symptom of the fact Asia is not so multicultural as the western world these days - less exposure means less acceptance in many cases (as seen in smaller towns of western countries)
It's not only about skin Color . It also more about features in general and hair types. There are Chinese who have the same skin Color as the half black lady in this video . What Asians and Chinese dislike the most is Africans features and hair.. Asians don't even like themselves, that why suicide rate is high in Asia and plastic surgery. The envy of Europeans features in Asia has messed up people . That s why black people face the most racism because they are the most unique when it comes to appearance. All races look closely similar in skin tone , hair ... But black ppl don't fit in
These mindsets are fading away tbh, and it's actually about features. Latins are considered very beautiful. As long as u got long eyelashes, huge eyes, smaller nose etc you're beautiful. Like Indian babies are doted upon for their long eyelashes
@@chastineyiu1128 Lies.....
And the irony is, Blacks are the original Asians and are still alive today from The Andaman Islands to Malaysia to The Philippines! 😂
You get beat up and killed being Asian in the US. How's that not more racist than strange looks and mean words? Snowflakes these days have no grip on reality.
I’m German-Chinese raised in America. This video describes being mixed-race in China perfectly. I look very white and in China, people seem to give me pretty privilege for this. However, compared to my Wasian friends who look more Asian or my other Chinese-American friends, my “Chinese-ness” is questioned much more. Like people will speak English to me and Mandarin to them. Plus, people think either me or my brother is adopted since we look totally different.
The Wasian girl in the video spoke about how people in China tell her how smart she is, etc. I think it’s the opposite in America. In America there’s a stereotype that Asian people are really smart. It’s weird but I feel that if I do something wrong, Chinese people will blame my whiteness for it. Like I have to play an instrument well, etc. to fit the stereotype.
China is still discovering cultural diversity - it's hoping that there are more of this vlog bringing out the beauty in mixed genes and the strength in a cultural evolution.
I’m Chinese so I have seen both sides. No offence but there’s an obsession with mixed race kids in Asia, usually the mom being Asian and the dad being white. When the white passing kid lives in Asia, they sometimes feel as though they can play the race card and pass as white and benefit off the privileges that are given by local Asians… if you live in Asia, you’ll understand what I mean
not in South Asia. In India, people, especially upper caste families, consider white = barbaric or less intelligent. Indian families typically forbid having children with Whites, Blacks, East Asians equally. In fact being mixed race Indian and White grants 0 privileges in India and only discrimination. Its probably easier to be Indian mixed with East Asian because at least then Indians might believe you are from Northeast India, Bhutan or Nepal which is not a problem.
I don’t even live there and I know what you mean
I know of latin people that live in America that say they're white and when they return to their country, they're latin again. XD
@@FiveMCity latin isnt a race tho
I dont live in asia. but I see the racism towards black people within them because they feel inferior to whites and "have to be better than someone" atleast... like children.
Imagine spreading out all over the globe in massive numbers and creating China towns in every major city in the world and then get mad when foreigners try to move to your country.
Europeans are like that too, if Europeans migrate to your country (South Africa as an excellent example), they think that you are supposed to feel blessed, if you migrate to their country, you're viewed as a pesky, invasive urchin.
There is no need to imagine that. You are literally talking about every ethnicity in the world
Black people abuse Chinese in America, so it's all even
@@user-gb4oo2to4w don't act dumb. theres more Chinese foreigners out side china than foreigners in china.so dont be stupid
@@user-gb4oo2to4w I doubt that there is a "little Oslo" in China.
I have a mix of African and Chinese and don't have negative reactions in Jamaica as mix races are common here
Oof the translations but whatever. Eden you are a QUEEN your mandarin is better than most of those haters 💕💕 But I do slightly disagree at the end since so many foreigners have left the last few years idk what’ll happen. Going back last year I def noticed the decrease in foreigners but Gu Eileen is going strong with her ads, saw her everywhere 🤣🤣
I find it interesting that in a way media generally takes mixed race as something semi-newish, while I'm sitting here in Latin America where over 90% of people are mixed race. It flies below the radar that these are mostly nations where the small minority is the one who is not mixed.
Correct. And in the U.S., we are a burgeoning population as well, experiencing the largest racial group increases for the past 2 Census, particularly a 276% increase in population growth as of the 2020 Census.
Exactly, I’m Latin America mestizo and we have such a long history dating back to the 1500s. It’s funny how people thing race mixing is a “new” thing
@@Luca-wo5fq interracial marrige used to be banned in US. Segregation and all that were factors in the past that would reduce the possibilty that a mixed couple would come to be.
It is awesome how many mixed in Latin America and Thailand.
if ur mix race and not citizen ur categorized as nothing. But if ur a citizen ur a star.. Its normal human behavior.
Being mixed race in China or Japan is still quite rare. Way more rare than Latin America. China and Japan are very homogenous and that is why they are making it seem like it is kind of "newish" .
My ex girlfriend was half Chinese half English were from Australia. We went to China in 2004. The amount of attention she got was insane! She was offered modelling work at least 20 times on the street and even had people knocking on the door wanting her to work as a model for their fashion brands. There were lots of ads with Photoshopped models made to look exactly like her. I jokingly would point out oh look it's you on a poster for shampoo it's you on an tv ad for make up. The thing was no one in China actually looked like that at the time. In Bolivia the beauty ideal is a Barbie doll where also no-one looks like that.
If you're a white man discussing racism having dated or married an asian/asian american woman. Please reflect. Asian women and white men as a modeen day ubiquitous thing in relation to emasculated asian/american men is not talked about enough.
@@kifacorea Cmon la, that's a completely different issue.. He's just telling what his ex experienced while visiting China because she's Chinese-white mixed..
@steve anton its because Han-Chinese people have low self esteem and see ''East Asian'' features has unattractive phenotype and many being exposed to European/Western fashion and commercial advertising industry many see European features is ideal feautures to have especially as a female. The self hate, self inflicted racial hate of Chinese people is very very deep that is why they love placing European people on a pedastal.
Why are some people always in BS? If Chinese people really like westerners, why don't their rich and famous people choose to marry a westerner? Do you know how many differences there are between Chinese Han people? From the 19th century to the middle and late 20th century, Chinese overseas immigrants were basically Southeast Asian people from southern China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Yunnan, Hainan and Macao) (a mixed race of Southern Han people and Southeast Asian short black people). Cantonese people spoke Cantonese, were short, dark skinned, ate snakes, cats and dogs, mice and placenta. Westerners were basically dealing with some Manchu and Southeast Asian people, and Kung Fu came from Manchu, Chinese Americans have extremely low self-esteem, and this emotion has been brought to Chinese culture, Asia and even the CCP. As a shandongnese, the local people are taller than some Western European countries, are very strong, and eat wheat as their staple food. This is why things like shangchi and Mulan have been resisted by a large number of Chinese people. Although many people have not noticed this, I have almost no sense of identity and continue to remain ignorant, The so-called BS of Asian men's lack of attractiveness is actually represented by these Southern Chinese, because Westerners simply can't distinguish the differences in the specific looks of Asians, and some people with ulterior motives mix surgery with the statements of filters and bleaching. Most Asians don't know it, but in fact, both AMWF and wmaf are relatively difficult groups, Maybe the quality of the former is a little higher. I saw a video about a Western man stealing a woman from a Hong Kong man. This Hong Kong couple is basically the appearance of Southeast Asian people. All this is basically the fantasy of some Western men about East Asian beauties, not the fact!
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As a girl who was born and living in China for more than twenty years I have to say this discrimination is so common. I remember that when I was a child I used to be exposed to sun so I looked kind of black of my skin, then many of my classmates thought that I was ugly and attack me for no reason. :( Now there are still many people judge others merely by their color of skin! What a shame. This girl in the video is soooooooooo cute and she has very beautiful eyes I hope you feel happy everyday.
I'm sorry. Hope it gets better.
I'm half black from Sweden and I remember when I was a kid everyone thought I looked cool because of my darker skin. Goes to show racism is taught.
@@Jotaro-o I feel shamed and angry that some people in our country hold a view that discrimination is natural and can't be taught or changed. They take hostility aimed at certain race for granted and refuse to think about how hurtful such behavior is.
@@cibao0524I heard thousands of African immigrants left the country after covid started as racism got worse after that according to my friends
@@rolandolucasrojastorrico87 I don't know specific situation but I guess it probably is, especially in some cities where there are more types of races. As far as I know because of the effect of covid lockdown our economy is in bad shape so that more people are showing more suspicion and hostility, particularly when it comes to those who are different from themselves than in the past...
It's the same here in India. The fixation of western white mixed skin is revered over any dark or black skin mixture.
As a Ugandan I'm so glad I got to hear Eden's story.
As a oversea Chinese diaspora, I find Eden a lot more attractive than Audrey. Audrey to me seems average. Said from yellow skin guy like me. :-P
She is still mixed.
@@lobsterbalelegesse9919 what does that have to do with the OP?
@@chillin5703 A whole lot.
@@lobsterbalelegesse9919 op didn't bring her being mixed or not mixed. You did.
This was sucha rad deep dive! As a mixed race Azorean Portuguese and Taishan Chinese person growing up on Turtle Island… I vividly remember being in kindergarten and receiving the message “oh there’s so many other full Chinese kids around… but I’m half so I’m half of them.”
And also the message that my country “didn’t like China… so it’s bad that I’m half Chinese”.
It’s wild the similarity that mixed kids have enough when geographically far away. As an adult when I used to work in Hospitality, customers would ask me weekly “where are you from??” Because my non pale Chinese beauty standard failure means that my ethnically ambiguity is easily identified as “Othered”. People guess I’m Phillipina or Hawaiian because of my skin tone and completely disregard that China had a Southern Half. When I think of the Cantonese/Taishanese kiddos I grew up with, we all have sucha wide array of skin tones from light pale to quite brown.
When I visited my ancestors hometown in Mainland China 10 years ago… I was struck by the similarity in skin tones I found… so many beautiful and deep shades of light and darker brown all beautifully kissed by the sun… and deeply confused and saddened by the amount of skin bleaching/whitening products littered in every pharmacy.
I’m Chinese/Cambodian. Chinese people don’t take me seriously because I’m Cambodian. In Cambodia I’m praised for having fair skin and being a half breed.
As a Chinese, I can say most Chinese aren't racism against Black people , but the main stream chinse indeed don't like the African culture which is not compatible with local Chinese one.
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This is why my empathy has boundaries when it comes to non-Black people.
Anti-black racism and discrimination against dark skinned people is a conscious choice.
My empathy has boundaries when it comes to non-Asian people. Anti-asian racism and discrimination is a conscious choice.
I'm Asian-American and all my asian brothers and sisters in san francisco are being beaten, stolen from, and killed by mostly black people. And if Asian people travel to countries in which they are not the majority, they face racism and discrimination just as black people do in most of asia. if Asians go to africa, they will be discriminated against. If they go to South America, they will too. If they go to Europe of course they will.
So why do you think black people are the only ones who experience this just because it happens in Asia? You're not special. Racism and dscrimination happens against all sorts of groups.
Don’t Asians deserve it tho ?
@@keeptaiwanfreeAn Asian American using the American experience to attack other continents. There's videos of Asians abusing Africans in Africa not the other way around so what are u smoking?
Racism and prejudice will continue because of people like you
Reverse racism is not the solution...
As someone from Hong Kong, I feel like some kind of negative comments towards people with darker skin have been normalised. As in some people don't think twice about making these hurtful comments. I remember being told by a HK guy that I would be quite pretty if I wasn't so dark-skinned (I was a bit tanned at that time). Luckily I didn't give a shit about his comments...
I ignore them. They're still evolving. Just because we're all here in 2022, doesn't mean we all evolved the same. I have a billion "harse" things I can say about them, but I don't, because I know they're just ignorant. If I walked around with asian eyes, I would definitly be arrested, but I don't want those troubles lol
I’m dark skinned hk guy too. My mom tells me to
Look pale.
Asians don't even like their own kind to be dark, that's why they look so washed out! I think the color is pretty, but they don't.
I would have said he would be more handsome if he didnt open his mouth.
@@FiveMCity I ignore them too, I’m very proud to be African lol. Look at those “white” skinned Japanese and South Koreans committing suicide everyday lmao, f them anyway.
There is no denying that people do have biases. However, many times the comments about skin are not about race but just about skin tone. China and some parts of Asia have been promoting fair skin tone since ancient times. This has existed all along. In Chinese beauty stores, many products for lighter skin are sold. And one of the big differences between China and other countries is that people will simply comment on the skin color and weight of others. I've come back from vacation and been told by family, friends and colleagues that you are fatter and darker. Maybe this is very offensive in some countries, but in China (although I don't like being commented on either), it's really common.....I hope that more people will realize that this is very disrespectful to others. There are too many characteristics that can divide people, skin color, men and women, tall and short, and we really don't need these boundaries since we are all human.
True! My fam is half n half my sis got Chinese dominant when me myself such a indian with brown skin tone.. and get bullied by our own community are painful
As a mixed person I totally understand her when she said she always felt different esp in asia where there's not much diversity even if u were Chinese/Filipino or Chinese/Japanese you'd still feel different cause people can really catch even the smallest different feature so I can't imagine how hard it must've been to be Chinese/African lucky for me I'm on the lighter side I can't imagine how I would be treated if not but they still find other features to pick on 💀from teachers to small kids to relatives it's hell. Tho I love Asia n I'd rather not be anywhere else & there are great people here the racism that the "public " has sometimes is so frustrating esp when it comes to skin colour Asians r not white u may appear to be lighter but ur skin color will always be different depending on the lighting we'll never "white " & majority of the population is tan so it's so heartbreaking that there's so much colourism n there will be in the future too sadly this white obsession is not going anywhere at least not in this lifetime
Northern east asians are probably the whitest in terms of pure color (I’m talking northern Japan or Korea)
@@commonomics they hardly are, many Japanese people are very tan.
cause white is the best :)
@@knightawz troll
@@achris2249 its true regardless if you deny it or not lol. Why do you think so many societies strive for whiteness? Being white is the beauty standard for a lot of countries.
I am in Asia and I also have this kind of problem . Racism is all around Asia . But I’m not sure we could call it racism because they also discriminate Asian that are tanned just because of the sun . After watching several videos about Asian countries but also about black countries like places in the Caribbean, you see that there is a problem with accepting themselves . I am black french born in the Caribbean and I met girls that were also black but super racist toward darker skin xD . All of this to say, China is a place where people don’t have manners . They don’t have civic education to respect others , they will tell you whatever come to their mind (for people who haven’t received good education) . They haven’t yet learned how to respect all races as they’re and to find beauty in what is beautiful no matter the skin tone . Asian beauty standard is too harsh even against themselves. I hope some day they could realize that their skin, their eyes , the way they are is what make them special and beautiful, not a brighter skin .
100% agree
i was like them too until i realized how messed up it is and i was like 9 years old during that😬. I just hope in the future more people realize this is ridiculous
It's called colorism. Asia has a serious problem with it. However, Asian society (especially East Asia) can be racist towards Blacks. I would never recommend my Black friends to visit East Asian countries because they'll be treated horribly there. Southeast Asia is more welcoming since we're used to multi-culturalism, albeit they might still experience subtle microaggressions (mostly a lot of staring) but nothing hostile like East Asians kicking them out of stores and being as*holes to them in front of their faces. Perhaps the friendliest for Black tourists is the Philippines, a former US colony where many African-Americans served in the US military base. Filipinos are fascinated by African-American culture.
Also, as an Asian, I kinda agree with your opinions about China lacking in understanding different cultures. Then again, China is a 5000 year old civilization that has always been culturally isolationist. They're a stickler for tradition and definitely stuck in their ways.
@@rinsolaris2284 the west has a serious problem about it you mean ? It is not us asian who gun down black people just saying 🤷🏻♂️
They're dumb, I bet they wouldn't like to hear that at all
Huang Kun summarized the discrimination darker skinned ppl in China face (be they 'native,' mixed-race or even full Han Chinese). Eden & Audrey speak Mandarin very well.
I don’t care what skin colour a person is at all. As long as they follow the rules of the society they are living in. However, I must admit there are a great number of people who will judge a person based on his or her skin colour. Sometimes, this kind of discrimination is largely ignored by the society which is certainly a very bad thing. Traditionally, most Chinese parents would say they wish their baby is going to be ‘white and fat’ as a way of blessing.
She's so pretty and well spoken. I'm sad the world is so cruel.
Even if she wasn’t she would be deserving of respect
@@ShizukaRose duh
I remember back in University back in the days, before China got prosperous and rich, I met a group of Chinese students. They were all dressed the same in blue, and all seemed to all have the same thoughts and behavior. After the change and development in China, where people have much more individuality now, I think they are expressing themselves unselfconsciously, and a lot of it is good but a lot is also garbage. Sort of like what happened in Eastern Europe when the wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed, they went through all that xenophobia and the tragedy in the Balkans. I hope the situation in China will improve and people will come to more open minded attitudes.
I doubt it XD skin-tone phobia is a very recent thing, but I don't see it going away anytime soon, unless we breed the phobia out of them hahaha
Yeah make more story haha why don't you say communist party also take you one kidney lol. If you see the comment section in this VICE channel all are same diffrent fake account trying same madeup story ohhh I have one friend in china ohhh I have meeting with chinese before ohhh I remember back in day in university lol
I teach Chinese language in a creative and funny way.
Learning a completely different language is funnier and more thought-provoking. Learning Chinese can contribute to finding a good job. (China is the largest trading partner of more than120 countries.)
Chinese characters still retain their pictographic origins. Knowing what the characters look like originally can help understand the meanings and remember them vividly.
I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many years studying Chinese culture and jokes. My native language is Chinese.
为什么中国人的审美习惯你们也要Lecture?未免也太霸道了吧？中国文化里就没有种族歧视的概念，中国人几千年都没怎么见过黑人，又不是白人搞三角贸易贩卖黑奴，你们这样说中国人对中国人不公平。
As a mix race of Chinese/British I don’t fit into the standard of what Chinese ppl want as a “good mixed baby” because I don’t look British enough, I have more Asian feature than white features and ppl make fun of me for it💀 bro u literally making fun of me because I look more similar to you than I do to other races, my Chinese family was also disappointed with my looks,now I don’t even say I’m mixed I just say I’m Chinese otherwise I’ll have to do a whole big explanation just on why do I look like this…😅
Wait I'm not mixed and I'm not Chinese but you spoke on something that I've also noticed in the black community. When someone is mixed they automatically want that person to "look mixed" or to have more ambiguous features or white features. It's weird AF and I wasn't aware it was happening in other cultures. I think we were made to believe that white features are more beautiful than our own and that's a pity because I think everyone is beautiful imo.
Hahaha
@@priscilla8068 Omg u completely got my point, ppl praise white features so much it’s honestly just sad
Wow this is disgusting. I’m an American Black Woman and I never experienced or seen any of this when I lived and worked there 😕. So strange that a child like her would be mistreated by the Chinese. She was born and raised there. Mind you there’s tons of Chinese in mainland who have darker skin than hers. These people need to be stopped, they should feel lucky to not be under Mao or starving in the world like they once were in the past.
是毛泽东让中国复兴。你不会中文并且没有了解中国的历史。
This is going to sound quite ignorant and sorry if it offends anyone but I once met someone through a friend who was half African-American and half Chinese, but their African-American features were quite dominating. Anyway, they could fluently speak Chinese with my Chinese friends and I was absolutely mind blown. Made me realise how little I knew of the world but glad to see they are being spoken about in this video.
African; African-Americans are well diverse genetically. How a person looks on the outside is only 8% of what makes them up genetically. The African genome outdates every living Homosapien on the planet by 300k years. Where exactly do you think your genes come from? The modern-day "white man" is a recent evolution, after mating with apes in European mountains.
What do you mean by that man? The whole dominating part?
@@mrcocoloco7200 I think their Black features are more prominent than their Chinese features.
that's what happens when people have sex
@@donovanlocust1106 Oh like it gets more attention but yeah of course. China is majority Han Chines.
When I visited China, no one cared that I was mixed and I was even insulted for it once. I am half white/half Chinese. This must be a new trend. 😂
Im a blaxican who might be moving to china with a darkskinned friend in the next few years this makes me a little nervous video is legit making me rethink where im about to spend a year of my life
East Asia is pretty racist and xenophobic, but there are still some diverse areas. Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, etc. in southern China there’s a city, Guangzhou, where a lot of Africans move for work. A lot of them end up staying and having families w Chinese ppl, so there’s a lot of blasians in Guangzhou. Hope this helps :)
I'd stay away from China if I were you. I'm half black from Scandinavia and every single chinese person I've met here I have had a bad social experience with. Been ignored by the staff at chinese restaurant. Been ignored by chinese co-workers, and been ignored by any other chinese person I've had to interact with. This is happening in my country so I can't imagine how much worse it is in China where it's allowed to put signs saying you're not welcomed.
Blaxican your black not Mexican
This is v prevalent in Asia. Not just towards dark skin race, but any person with darker than the "supposed" to be skin. I lean towards being brown and I tanned easily. I have had Asian men told me I'm outside their preference groups. It hurts but it also opens a whole new world for me.
But still, this kind of racisms can affect your life. I had lost job opportunity as a fairer person was chosen over me. As an Asian myself, I can only imagine the kind of thing they do to dark skin races
Yeah the first person to say something to me I’m smacking the shit out them
Yep... know how that feels.. especially when your own family makes snide comments about your darker shade... that BS gets real old real quick.... felt like telling some of them to shove their creams and lotions up where the sun don't shine...
small sized fuckers with lil dicks feel special enough to be picky. lol
Considering the fact that people show prejudice against darker people from their own race (and sometimes from their own FAMILY), is it always racism, or sometimes a form of class and wealth prejudice?
In countries like China and India, where large numbers of people are agricultural workers, (working outside in the sun), many identify dark skin as being a sign of being low class, poor and uneducated. Fair skin is associated with wealth. EXACTLY the way it was in Europe, before the industrial revolution!
You only have to look at old paintings to see how lily-white skin was valued in the olden days. But now very few Europeans work outdoors, so having a sun tan has actually become a status symbol, because it's identified with expensive travel to exotic locations.
@@justanotherviewer7117 我当然支持反对任何形式的种族歧视 但实际上 中国早就不是农业国家了
I dont let anti black cultures around the world deter me from becoming successful. You just have to learn how to become self sufficient in this hostile world.
its funny how the chinese are so concerned that black man are going to china and leaving kids in china yet that is exactly what they are doing in Africa.
The irony of migration and emigration must be lost on some Chinese people. I live in a specific neighbourhood in Toronto and if you looked around, you might think I lived in China itself.
Richmond ，Vancouver?
As a fellow Blasian I can relate - I feel ur pain girl . . . .
Why should any Black person feel any pain over how some ugly people feel about them.. To feel pain simply mean that you are hungry for their love and self approval, as if your whole outlook in life is solely based on how others feel about you, and not about how you feel about yourself.. Just think about that for a few seconds....
@@etruscancivilization i think she's referring to the black girl getting bullied not the fact that Chinese hate black
she's basically sympathizing with her
are you china too?
@@etruscancivilization Most people aren’t attractive anyways, so most of us experience the same thing just for different reasons. Stop comparing yourself to others based on race lol☠️
@@etruscancivilization Because black people are ugly to a lot of people around the world. The skin color, the nose, the eyes, the mouth, etc...There is a reason back race is the least desired race in the world, both black men and black women.
the discrimination towards darker skin is very systemic in Asian countries... they even discriminate against their own people if they are darker skinned. Can't forget the number of times my parents harped about not showering 'too hot' to not make my skin darker... sick and tired of it all....
year, cry more
@@quangminhpham7919 you said your race is smarter yet your mind is still stuck in the old ages pathetic 😂
Sorry to say it to you, but older chinese people really are thick as shit.
@@quangminhpham7919 Touch grass cupcake
@@quangminhpham7919 also learn how to spell dipsh*t💀
I haven’t heard a reason for racism against people of African ethnicity.
Racism is unintelligent, it is regressive to intelligent development and not to mention kinda tragic too. There is one race, the human race. Nature continuously gives this lesson with the birth of so called mixed race children. Every ethnicity is beautiful just the way they are I would not change a thing.
Procreation is about the genetic survival of the human race. Genetic diversity is epic, it’s nature’s guarantee of survival . What a gift.
Yet folks are threatening nukes. The ancestors are shaking their heads at us. Nature did all that work and we just might off ourselves inventing unneccesary weapons, apocalyptic level weapons and not to mention we are continuously busying ourselves with murdering one another decreasing the collective gene pool by cancelling populations instead of being logical and figuring out how to transverse space so we can collect resource from the astroid belt and be out before the sun kick the bucket. At this point we can’t claim ignorance on the facts. Africans have the highest amounts of genetic diversity on the planet. This is a good thing for all ethnicities on the planet but I would imagine especially for populations that have been isolated.
African Asians produce genetic diversity gains. In fact our nordics and a couple other groups better check their gene pools to see how much genetic diversity has been lost. Might need to get to the mother land for a genetic reup. I am pretty sure the nordics have the least amount of genetic diversity which is not a good thing for genetic survival. Caucasian Asians produce genetic diversity losses so I guess a preference for a loss says it all about racist folks obssessed with nordics
if you want mix let asian and white man donate sperm for all African women to get mix kid, we don't want to mix with you ok, no benefit to us
@@quangminhpham7919 are you vietnamese?
@@anon9402 yes, no other country want to mix black, only politician in western country want,they want destroy western society
@@anon9402 i never argument with you anymore only cry racism when you cant debate
I think this is more colorism rather than racism.
A dark skinned Chinese person pretty much receives the similar amount of hate and it's pretty sad.
For me growing up, I was told that I was too pale, too fat, my wavy hair is too messy...etc I would stand in the sun till I get sunburned. In my teens, I started getting spray tans, using chemicals to straighten my hair, starving myself to be skinny, buying a million skin products for my acne...etc. It was a terrible time, and I was not happy.
I'm mixed raced asian. I grew up with tonnes of african friends in australia. Perhaps in a predominantly white country, 'ethnic' people find each other. We also had a lot of Italian, Portuguese, Greek and Croatian friends from school. We all found that we're culturally we were all really similar. Why can't we all just get along
same! when i studied boarding school in uk, i couldn't make good friends with locals, but made great friends with indians, khazaks, russians, koreans, armenians, thais, nepalese, japanese, italians... etc.
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You feel that way probably because you grew up in Australia. You are essentially an Australian, just as much as your "ethnic" friends are
Superiority complex
You’ve obviously never met our American Africans. Cradle to grave professional full time victims at every turn on every occasion on every continent yet zero personal responsibility ever. 12.7% of our population is responsible for 85% of violent crimes. Check out the CDC statistics
THATS WHY. DONT BE A CHILD
What if a scientist popped up and told us that we are all the result of inter sub species mixing between Cro magnon man and Neanderthal?
Africa welcomes all sorts
Buts it’s never reciprocated
@Jack Ryan..That is why African people need to stop being friendly against Chinese and other Asians. Asians are not friends of Africans. Let be honest African people are some of the most kind, friendly, good hearted people hand down. They never treated Chinese and other Asians in a degrading way the west has done for centuries yet these Chinese have audecity to racist and degrading against them on weibo and wechat
@@beast9125 Idi Amin saw something many Africans didnt saw at the time. Looking back at it in modern times he did the right thing Asians dont respect African people not even in their own homeland. Imagine Ugandans being disrespectful Against Indians in India...we all know what Indians would do the same as Idi Amin.
@@beast9125 And Uganda represents the whole of Africa? Second of all there where many factors that led to that event such as the mistreatment of Africans by Asians in the country at the time. So you framing it as a matter of Africans just inherently hating on non-Africans is incorrect.Historically speaking such events are radical reactions to those demographics oppressing Africans.
And it needs to change😎😎😎
@yourmanwatson REALLY
The mixed Black Chinese lady looks much more handsome than 95% of Chinese women I have seen in my life.
There was this Korean - Indian mixed who grew up in China and was schooled in international school. He said everyone around took photos with his mates who were half white but not with him cuz he had a light chocolate caramel brown skin ( my take on how his skin looks , he just called it light brown) and no one took pics with him or treated him better cuz he was half brown . Also he was really hot guy. He is in korean military service rn ( maybe done he went there in 2021 ig)
Chinese people tend to like Indian features but hate Indian skin tone however I know an Indian feather who left a mixed kid in Korea
I know one guy who had an Indian father and Korean mother. He wasn't hated in Canada. When he decided to go to Korea. They complimented his nose shape but hated his dark shade. He was not dark either but Koreans tend to like ghost pale people
@@baddie21358 yea that's true. And that made him feel bad bout his looks nd made feel bad for Indian side , as we are on on darker skin shades here
yea they might like big doe eyes we have and thick hair , but we don't have fair skin. Only North india has it , rest is much darker