I remember being called Lao Wai on a daily basis during my brief time in Nanjing. Wai Gui came up less frequently, but it was still there. Good stuff. I had it better than the blacks, though. One of my students in China was a police officer. He told me how his commander had given explicit orders to his men to find and beat the hell out of a black guy who was known to be dating a Chinese national. They weren’t too keen on the black folk.
“I remember being called Lao Wai on a daily basis during my brief time in Nanjing. Wai Gui came up less frequently, but it was still there.”
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Wai Gui. Hadn’t heard that before.
“Yang Guidze” is the version I heard (about). Never heard it used. That for readers, is literally “Foreign Devil” - or ghost actually, I suppose.
Point I’d like to make, is the entire world is racially centric. Everyone.
Every people, in every country, consider their group to be good, and other groups to be not good.
We’ve convinced ourselves, if we just change the way white people think and act, that will change the world.
White people are actually only a very small portion of the world.
Changing the way white people think and act, really only hinders white people who are increasingly in global competition with others, who have no such compunctions.
That’s what we need to be looking at.
As a nation, we’re really incapable sometimes, of perspective.