How Western Liberals Exploit Chinese People
By Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD
Western liberalism is a bourgeois shame. It is the exercise of the principle of
‘domination at the point of contact’ between certain Europeans and people of
Chinese descent. Ethnic domination is
retained by the European bourgeois class through the exercise of a
condescending ‘tolerance’ toward anything and anyone perceived as
‘different’ This is in reality an
acknowledgement of the presence of a perceived threat in the socio-economic
environment that must be ‘controlled’ and ‘demeaned’, if it is not to be
allowed to upset the status quo. Whilst rich
Eurocentric countries such as the USA, the UK, have highly unequal societies, with
high crime rates, high death rates from neglect and poverty, high unemployment,
and highly backward social policies, Communist China continues to outgrow and
outshine its Capitalist counterparts.
This is one reason why the European body politick has a default setting
that uses the Western media to continuously attack China as a nation
(collective criticism), and Chinese people as individuals (individual
criticism) though an array of contrived concerns which include, but are not
limited to:
1) Human Rights.
2) Women’s Issues.
3) Treatment of Young Girls.
4) Animal Rights.
5) Military Development.
6) Capital Punishment.
7) Politics.
8) Science and Technology.
9) Trade and Commerce.
10) Chinese presence in Africa.
The Western media continuously puts out articles concerning somekind of abuse within mainland China, which are premised entirely upon a predictable bourgeois sentimentalism that is presented as a pretentious sense of ‘caring’ for fellow human beings, but which in reality is nothing more than Judeo-Christian inspired racism. It must be remembered that this is from a Western political (and cultural) system, that treats a large section of its working population with a certain economic and political indifference and brutality. The Eurocentric anti-mainland China attitudes may be summed-up through the examinations of the following logical inconsistencies:
Political and Economic Inconsistency
1) The Western bourgeoisie demands from China a compliance with its own Eurocentric standards of political and economic behaviour that it does not apply to the majority of its own European workers. Europeans routinely live in squalor, and a certain proportion die due to lack of welfare, health provision, and dietary standards. Widespread unemployment in Europe and the USA permanently excludes a large number of workers from accessing the wealth of the nation, and it is obvious that racism further subdivides the workers into competing ethnic blocs that favour ‘white’ Europeans for filling the jobs that are available.
Religious Inconsistency
2) The nature of these so-called ‘news’ articles are designed to appeal to, and encourage a Eurocentric outrage premised entirely upon a Judeo-Christian sense of ‘moral outrage’. This type of historical bigotry (that fuelled the imperialist and colonial European Era) is of no cognitive relevance to the Chinese people (as China has never been ‘Christian’), and only serves to reinforce the pretentious imaginations of those who adhere to the Judeo-Christian tradition in either its overtly ‘religious’ sense, (i.e. the ‘faithful’), or in its secular sense, (i.e. the concerned ‘Capitalist’). This view continuously asserts that as China is historically ‘unaffected’ by the strictures of the Judeo-Christian religion – and it’s modern ‘Capitalist’ incarnation – then China must be morally backward, corrupt, and inferior.
Cultural Inconsistency
3) China is the oldest, continuous human culture on earth. It is far older than any known European culture, and yet the Eurocentric bias presumes that China – despite its age – is backward, undeveloped, and in need of paternalistic ‘guidance’ from a European cultural mind-set premised upon the religious myths contained within the Judeo-Christian tradition. China was an old civilisation even at the time Jesus Christ is believed to have existed. The historical forces that dictate and mould social and cultural evolutionary development, have been at work longer in China as a coherent and cohesive culture, than in any single European cultural grouping – with the USA being a relative late-comer. Virtually every culture has developed the dominance of the male (patriarchalism), and this has been no different in Europe. Modern China has embraced Marxism and since 1949 has striven to throw-off this outdated form of social interaction, whilst in the West, patriarchalism is still very much the norm, where white middle class women have improved living conditions, but white, black, Asian and Chinese working class women still inhabit inferior social roles and means of existence. Where there exists white, black, Asian and Chinese middle class women, the white middle class women retain social and economic dominance.
Animal Rights Inconsistency
4) Virtually all human groupings have hunted and killed animals to survive. Within human evolutionary theory, this activity (i.e. eating meat) has even been linked to the growth and development of the human brain and the optimising of its function. The Eurocentric tradition of the mass industrialisation of farming - which has culminated in the modern practice of 24 hour slaughterhouses – has its roots in the Judeo-Christian bible, which teaches that animals have been placed on earth for humans to exploit and eat. In secular terms, this is the Capitalisation of the meat industry in the West. In every part of the world, when food has been scarce and people have been starving, every living creature – from dogs, cats, horses, and rats – have been killed and eaten. This has also included ‘cannibalism’ and the devouring of human flesh. In the modern world, with the development of strong economies and the development of scientific farming, large parts of the world has seen a marked increase in the development of acceptable food stuffs and a movement away from certain dietary habits. However, this varies from culture to culture – even in Europe. In France, for instance, horse-meat is popular, whereas in the UK this is not considered acceptable. In China due to the intense poverty at various times in its history, dogs and cats have been eaten – as they have been historically in the West. Today, the bourgeois attitude in the West is that Chinese people are evil because they eat dog-meat, but this is a misnomer. As economic standards have dramatically increased, more and more Chinese people see dogs as pets and would not thinking of harming them. The Eurocentric media ignores this fact and continues to present a false view of China, whilst simultaneously ignoring the horrendous treatment of animals in the West (which includes the routine abuse of dogs).
Women’s Rights Inconsistency
5) Women are not free and equal in the West – every economic and political survey shows this to be true – but the Western bourgeois attitude is that all European women are completely emancipated. However, the Judeo-Christian tradition specifies that men are superior to women, and that women are inferior to men because the bible teaches that Eve betrayed Adam (and god) because of her selfishness and deviousness. Interestingly, there are theories that state that in its earlier phases, Chinese culture favoured matriarchy and not patriarchy, but that this changed over the years as cultural conditions altered, transformed, and developed. Following thousands of years of male-dominated imperial rule, the Communist Revolution of 1949 threw-off these outdated cultural practices and instigated a nation-wide system of education for women. This was only 66 years ago and already Chinese women are travelling into space and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has regiments of female soldiers. This type of social transformation will take decades to finally free all women completely, and problems and setbacks are bound to occur. The point is that the bourgeois male-dominated mind-set has been abandoned in principle – whereas in the West, no matter how much a women earns, she is still subordinate to a man, and a white, black, Asian or Chinese woman is subordinate to a white middle class woman.
Taiwan Inconsistency
6) Taiwan is an island that politically is part of the mainland of China. This is because the remnants of the discredited National government fled there in 1949, with what remained of their shattered armed forces under the totalitarian leadership of Chiang Kai-Shek. This military force invaded Taiwan and subjected its indigenous population to all kinds of terrorism to secure its subjugation. This despicable regime – which never gave up its political claim to the mainland of China – has been economically and military supported by the USA, and continues to be supported today despite the fact that liberal style democracy has only been a recent development on the island. Up until the 1970’s, the USA diplomatically only acknowledged the Taiwan regime and refused to recognise Communist China as the legitimate representative of the Chinese people, and the true political power in the region. Today, anti-mainland China propaganda emanates from Taiwan under US supervision. This is anti-Chinese propaganda written in the Chinese language and designed to turn Chinese people living outside of China against the Communist regime. Behind the scenes, Taiwan has extensive business and cultural links with the mainland of China, and there is a definite understanding that Taiwan is a part of China that is still suffering under a form of US neo-colonialism. Whether Chinese people living on Taiwan prefer to be associated with the mainland Chinese government, the fact remains that they must ‘officially’ toe the US anti-Communist line. This Eurocentric oppression is still in operation in Asia. Most Taiwanese people are ‘Chinese’ first, and certainly not ‘American’, and they do not necessarily agree with the anti-mainland propaganda that the upper echelons of their government generates to satisfy their American overlords. The US is trying to operate a distorted bourgeois logic that is attempting to separate a part of the Chinese people from the dialectical effects of Chinese history. This is in fact an illogical premise and objective. Although Chinese politics, culture, and economy has evolved, and will continue to evolve, it will continue to do so through the dialectical force of ‘Chinese’ history which necessarily views the US interlude into the region as nothing but a minor (and irrelevant) intrusion of no long lasting historical import.
Chinese People Living Outside of China Inconsistency
7) Ethnic groups that have developed in the geographic area known as ‘China’ today, have migrated out into the surrounding world for thousands of years. The Thais and the Vietnamese, for instance, are believed to have originated their distinctive cultures in China. Although it is uncertain when Chinese people started exploring outside of Asia, there is a theory suggesting the Han Period (c. 200 BCE – 200 CE), however, certainly by the early 1400’s CE, Chinese treasure ships (carrying cultural gifts to be given to newly discovered people), had travelled as far as Africa, and according to the British author Gavin Menzies, perhaps had even reached the Americas and parts of Western Europe. With the advent of European colonialism in the 1500’s CE, the Catholic and Protestant Churches – once they had reached China – set about separating the Chinese people from their indigenous belief systems. The first Chinese people to appear in 1600’s Europe were male Christian converts dressed in the robes of Christian priests, usually referred to by a new (and for them) unfamiliar ‘Christian’ name. At this time, such examples of Chinese manhood remained merely a curiosity within a radically transforming Europe, but as European business interests spread with vigour into China during the 19th century, the demonization of Chinese indigenous beliefs began with renewed vigour, as it was thought by the Europeans (and the Christian Church), that a people hostile to European invasion could be weakened and subdued if their belief systems were thoroughly undermined. To achieve this in China, Chinese culture, religion, and philosophy were judged to be ‘inferior’ to Western culture, which was believed to be premised upon the ‘superior’ Judeo-Christian tradition. The fact that the indigenous cultures of Western Europe actually had their earliest roots in the pre-Christian Era, was a point conveniently ignored by the European imperialists. Added to this derogatory and arbitrary demeaning of the outer appearance of Chinese culture, the distinctive physical characteristics of the Chinese people were also appraised as being racially inferior, and innately ‘ungodlike’, and this is the attitude that informs virtually all modern discourse (originating in the West) dealing with the Chinese people and their culture.
For a Chinese person to be despised in the bourgeois mind, they do not have to be a Communist, they simply have to possess a ‘Chinese’ body (of either gender) and exhibit a ‘Chinese’ physicality. Bizarrely, the men of this highly developed martial culture are deemed ‘effeminate’ whilst at the same time accused of treating Chinese women with disdain, brutality, and indifference. Chinese women, the bearers of the children of the nation, are viewed as ‘submissive’, ‘weak’, or ‘in need of rescue’, as well as ‘devious’, ‘aggressive’, and ‘lacking in basic human concern’ for the ‘well-being of their children’, etc. Both genders are viewed as deficient in moral fortitude, courage, intelligence, and basic human impulses. This are the parameters of Western bourgeois racism that have no basis in fact with regard to the historical development of Chinese culture, or have any relevance to the actual culture of modern China. The point is that Chinese people living in the West are judged in this manner regardless as to whether they have ever visited or lived in China. This Chinese body-coding immediately elicits this unquestioned Western bourgeois racist response. News articles in English (and other European languages) claim a ‘special’ knowledge or insight into Chinese cultural existence – which is assumed a priori to be juxtaposed to the norms and conventions of mainstream bourgeois existence in the West. All are negative and demeaning, and are intended to encourage a ‘moral outrage’ in the West at the behaviour of ‘immoral’ Chinese in the East. If these articles were true, they would have their roots in Chinese language source texts, when in fact very few ever do. As very few Westerners can read, write, or speak Chinese, the obvious question is where are these demeaning articles originating? If these negative stories about China were true, then where is the evidence for their truth? Even human rights groups such as bourgeois Amnesty International routinely criticises countries that are deemed ‘unworthy’ by the United States, and place unsupported stories about vulnerable children, or sexually exploited women in China without a shred of evidence. As these stories have no basis in the accepted sense of ‘objective fact’, (in other words, when subjected to the rigours of investigative social science, they ‘fail’ in all areas of credibility), then the only other possible source for these continuously demeaning articles is the Bourgeois imagination. These stories must be viewed as ‘myth’ in the Western media until proven otherwise, and are indicative of the continuation of a deliberate racial policy aimed at China as a nation, and all Chinese people living throughout the world. This racialized anti-Chinese misrepresentation is persuasive and is not only limited to the rightwing and centre of the European political landscape, but has also penetrated large swathes of the political left. This demonstrates the power of the mythology surrounding the ‘racialized other’, and plays straight into the hands of the political right. The ideology of racism separates the world into stratified skin colours, and ascribes a cultural determinism to each layer – or imagined ‘race’. This is the true face of the far-right and its pseudoscience. However, such is the persuasive nature of anti-Chinese racism, that certain members of the political far-left in the West have allowed this bourgeois thought process to penetrate into (and corrupt) the Marxist theory of historical materialism, and thus create a ‘pseudo-Marxism’ that appears to be criticising the Chinese people ‘scientifically’, when in fact it is simply re-stating Bourgeois racist ideology through a thin veneer of misconstrued Marxist terminology. When an anti-Chinese article is encountered in the Western media, stop for a moment and pause for thought. Where does this article physically arise, and why? Does it have a Chinese language source reference, or has it been fabricated in the West? As it is the Western media that is continuously misrepresenting China, the Chinese people, and their culture, the onus is logically upon the Western media to ‘prove’ that their sources are legitimate, and to coherently define their terms of reference. Without these safeguards in place, nothing appearing in the Western media can be taken as legitimate.
©opyright: Adrian Chan-Wyles (ShiDaDao) 2015.
1) Human Rights.
2) Women’s Issues.
3) Treatment of Young Girls.
4) Animal Rights.
5) Military Development.
6) Capital Punishment.
7) Politics.
8) Science and Technology.
9) Trade and Commerce.
10) Chinese presence in Africa.
The Western media continuously puts out articles concerning somekind of abuse within mainland China, which are premised entirely upon a predictable bourgeois sentimentalism that is presented as a pretentious sense of ‘caring’ for fellow human beings, but which in reality is nothing more than Judeo-Christian inspired racism. It must be remembered that this is from a Western political (and cultural) system, that treats a large section of its working population with a certain economic and political indifference and brutality. The Eurocentric anti-mainland China attitudes may be summed-up through the examinations of the following logical inconsistencies:
Political and Economic Inconsistency
1) The Western bourgeoisie demands from China a compliance with its own Eurocentric standards of political and economic behaviour that it does not apply to the majority of its own European workers. Europeans routinely live in squalor, and a certain proportion die due to lack of welfare, health provision, and dietary standards. Widespread unemployment in Europe and the USA permanently excludes a large number of workers from accessing the wealth of the nation, and it is obvious that racism further subdivides the workers into competing ethnic blocs that favour ‘white’ Europeans for filling the jobs that are available.
Religious Inconsistency
2) The nature of these so-called ‘news’ articles are designed to appeal to, and encourage a Eurocentric outrage premised entirely upon a Judeo-Christian sense of ‘moral outrage’. This type of historical bigotry (that fuelled the imperialist and colonial European Era) is of no cognitive relevance to the Chinese people (as China has never been ‘Christian’), and only serves to reinforce the pretentious imaginations of those who adhere to the Judeo-Christian tradition in either its overtly ‘religious’ sense, (i.e. the ‘faithful’), or in its secular sense, (i.e. the concerned ‘Capitalist’). This view continuously asserts that as China is historically ‘unaffected’ by the strictures of the Judeo-Christian religion – and it’s modern ‘Capitalist’ incarnation – then China must be morally backward, corrupt, and inferior.
Cultural Inconsistency
3) China is the oldest, continuous human culture on earth. It is far older than any known European culture, and yet the Eurocentric bias presumes that China – despite its age – is backward, undeveloped, and in need of paternalistic ‘guidance’ from a European cultural mind-set premised upon the religious myths contained within the Judeo-Christian tradition. China was an old civilisation even at the time Jesus Christ is believed to have existed. The historical forces that dictate and mould social and cultural evolutionary development, have been at work longer in China as a coherent and cohesive culture, than in any single European cultural grouping – with the USA being a relative late-comer. Virtually every culture has developed the dominance of the male (patriarchalism), and this has been no different in Europe. Modern China has embraced Marxism and since 1949 has striven to throw-off this outdated form of social interaction, whilst in the West, patriarchalism is still very much the norm, where white middle class women have improved living conditions, but white, black, Asian and Chinese working class women still inhabit inferior social roles and means of existence. Where there exists white, black, Asian and Chinese middle class women, the white middle class women retain social and economic dominance.
Animal Rights Inconsistency
4) Virtually all human groupings have hunted and killed animals to survive. Within human evolutionary theory, this activity (i.e. eating meat) has even been linked to the growth and development of the human brain and the optimising of its function. The Eurocentric tradition of the mass industrialisation of farming - which has culminated in the modern practice of 24 hour slaughterhouses – has its roots in the Judeo-Christian bible, which teaches that animals have been placed on earth for humans to exploit and eat. In secular terms, this is the Capitalisation of the meat industry in the West. In every part of the world, when food has been scarce and people have been starving, every living creature – from dogs, cats, horses, and rats – have been killed and eaten. This has also included ‘cannibalism’ and the devouring of human flesh. In the modern world, with the development of strong economies and the development of scientific farming, large parts of the world has seen a marked increase in the development of acceptable food stuffs and a movement away from certain dietary habits. However, this varies from culture to culture – even in Europe. In France, for instance, horse-meat is popular, whereas in the UK this is not considered acceptable. In China due to the intense poverty at various times in its history, dogs and cats have been eaten – as they have been historically in the West. Today, the bourgeois attitude in the West is that Chinese people are evil because they eat dog-meat, but this is a misnomer. As economic standards have dramatically increased, more and more Chinese people see dogs as pets and would not thinking of harming them. The Eurocentric media ignores this fact and continues to present a false view of China, whilst simultaneously ignoring the horrendous treatment of animals in the West (which includes the routine abuse of dogs).
Women’s Rights Inconsistency
5) Women are not free and equal in the West – every economic and political survey shows this to be true – but the Western bourgeois attitude is that all European women are completely emancipated. However, the Judeo-Christian tradition specifies that men are superior to women, and that women are inferior to men because the bible teaches that Eve betrayed Adam (and god) because of her selfishness and deviousness. Interestingly, there are theories that state that in its earlier phases, Chinese culture favoured matriarchy and not patriarchy, but that this changed over the years as cultural conditions altered, transformed, and developed. Following thousands of years of male-dominated imperial rule, the Communist Revolution of 1949 threw-off these outdated cultural practices and instigated a nation-wide system of education for women. This was only 66 years ago and already Chinese women are travelling into space and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has regiments of female soldiers. This type of social transformation will take decades to finally free all women completely, and problems and setbacks are bound to occur. The point is that the bourgeois male-dominated mind-set has been abandoned in principle – whereas in the West, no matter how much a women earns, she is still subordinate to a man, and a white, black, Asian or Chinese woman is subordinate to a white middle class woman.
Taiwan Inconsistency
6) Taiwan is an island that politically is part of the mainland of China. This is because the remnants of the discredited National government fled there in 1949, with what remained of their shattered armed forces under the totalitarian leadership of Chiang Kai-Shek. This military force invaded Taiwan and subjected its indigenous population to all kinds of terrorism to secure its subjugation. This despicable regime – which never gave up its political claim to the mainland of China – has been economically and military supported by the USA, and continues to be supported today despite the fact that liberal style democracy has only been a recent development on the island. Up until the 1970’s, the USA diplomatically only acknowledged the Taiwan regime and refused to recognise Communist China as the legitimate representative of the Chinese people, and the true political power in the region. Today, anti-mainland China propaganda emanates from Taiwan under US supervision. This is anti-Chinese propaganda written in the Chinese language and designed to turn Chinese people living outside of China against the Communist regime. Behind the scenes, Taiwan has extensive business and cultural links with the mainland of China, and there is a definite understanding that Taiwan is a part of China that is still suffering under a form of US neo-colonialism. Whether Chinese people living on Taiwan prefer to be associated with the mainland Chinese government, the fact remains that they must ‘officially’ toe the US anti-Communist line. This Eurocentric oppression is still in operation in Asia. Most Taiwanese people are ‘Chinese’ first, and certainly not ‘American’, and they do not necessarily agree with the anti-mainland propaganda that the upper echelons of their government generates to satisfy their American overlords. The US is trying to operate a distorted bourgeois logic that is attempting to separate a part of the Chinese people from the dialectical effects of Chinese history. This is in fact an illogical premise and objective. Although Chinese politics, culture, and economy has evolved, and will continue to evolve, it will continue to do so through the dialectical force of ‘Chinese’ history which necessarily views the US interlude into the region as nothing but a minor (and irrelevant) intrusion of no long lasting historical import.
Chinese People Living Outside of China Inconsistency
7) Ethnic groups that have developed in the geographic area known as ‘China’ today, have migrated out into the surrounding world for thousands of years. The Thais and the Vietnamese, for instance, are believed to have originated their distinctive cultures in China. Although it is uncertain when Chinese people started exploring outside of Asia, there is a theory suggesting the Han Period (c. 200 BCE – 200 CE), however, certainly by the early 1400’s CE, Chinese treasure ships (carrying cultural gifts to be given to newly discovered people), had travelled as far as Africa, and according to the British author Gavin Menzies, perhaps had even reached the Americas and parts of Western Europe. With the advent of European colonialism in the 1500’s CE, the Catholic and Protestant Churches – once they had reached China – set about separating the Chinese people from their indigenous belief systems. The first Chinese people to appear in 1600’s Europe were male Christian converts dressed in the robes of Christian priests, usually referred to by a new (and for them) unfamiliar ‘Christian’ name. At this time, such examples of Chinese manhood remained merely a curiosity within a radically transforming Europe, but as European business interests spread with vigour into China during the 19th century, the demonization of Chinese indigenous beliefs began with renewed vigour, as it was thought by the Europeans (and the Christian Church), that a people hostile to European invasion could be weakened and subdued if their belief systems were thoroughly undermined. To achieve this in China, Chinese culture, religion, and philosophy were judged to be ‘inferior’ to Western culture, which was believed to be premised upon the ‘superior’ Judeo-Christian tradition. The fact that the indigenous cultures of Western Europe actually had their earliest roots in the pre-Christian Era, was a point conveniently ignored by the European imperialists. Added to this derogatory and arbitrary demeaning of the outer appearance of Chinese culture, the distinctive physical characteristics of the Chinese people were also appraised as being racially inferior, and innately ‘ungodlike’, and this is the attitude that informs virtually all modern discourse (originating in the West) dealing with the Chinese people and their culture.
For a Chinese person to be despised in the bourgeois mind, they do not have to be a Communist, they simply have to possess a ‘Chinese’ body (of either gender) and exhibit a ‘Chinese’ physicality. Bizarrely, the men of this highly developed martial culture are deemed ‘effeminate’ whilst at the same time accused of treating Chinese women with disdain, brutality, and indifference. Chinese women, the bearers of the children of the nation, are viewed as ‘submissive’, ‘weak’, or ‘in need of rescue’, as well as ‘devious’, ‘aggressive’, and ‘lacking in basic human concern’ for the ‘well-being of their children’, etc. Both genders are viewed as deficient in moral fortitude, courage, intelligence, and basic human impulses. This are the parameters of Western bourgeois racism that have no basis in fact with regard to the historical development of Chinese culture, or have any relevance to the actual culture of modern China. The point is that Chinese people living in the West are judged in this manner regardless as to whether they have ever visited or lived in China. This Chinese body-coding immediately elicits this unquestioned Western bourgeois racist response. News articles in English (and other European languages) claim a ‘special’ knowledge or insight into Chinese cultural existence – which is assumed a priori to be juxtaposed to the norms and conventions of mainstream bourgeois existence in the West. All are negative and demeaning, and are intended to encourage a ‘moral outrage’ in the West at the behaviour of ‘immoral’ Chinese in the East. If these articles were true, they would have their roots in Chinese language source texts, when in fact very few ever do. As very few Westerners can read, write, or speak Chinese, the obvious question is where are these demeaning articles originating? If these negative stories about China were true, then where is the evidence for their truth? Even human rights groups such as bourgeois Amnesty International routinely criticises countries that are deemed ‘unworthy’ by the United States, and place unsupported stories about vulnerable children, or sexually exploited women in China without a shred of evidence. As these stories have no basis in the accepted sense of ‘objective fact’, (in other words, when subjected to the rigours of investigative social science, they ‘fail’ in all areas of credibility), then the only other possible source for these continuously demeaning articles is the Bourgeois imagination. These stories must be viewed as ‘myth’ in the Western media until proven otherwise, and are indicative of the continuation of a deliberate racial policy aimed at China as a nation, and all Chinese people living throughout the world. This racialized anti-Chinese misrepresentation is persuasive and is not only limited to the rightwing and centre of the European political landscape, but has also penetrated large swathes of the political left. This demonstrates the power of the mythology surrounding the ‘racialized other’, and plays straight into the hands of the political right. The ideology of racism separates the world into stratified skin colours, and ascribes a cultural determinism to each layer – or imagined ‘race’. This is the true face of the far-right and its pseudoscience. However, such is the persuasive nature of anti-Chinese racism, that certain members of the political far-left in the West have allowed this bourgeois thought process to penetrate into (and corrupt) the Marxist theory of historical materialism, and thus create a ‘pseudo-Marxism’ that appears to be criticising the Chinese people ‘scientifically’, when in fact it is simply re-stating Bourgeois racist ideology through a thin veneer of misconstrued Marxist terminology. When an anti-Chinese article is encountered in the Western media, stop for a moment and pause for thought. Where does this article physically arise, and why? Does it have a Chinese language source reference, or has it been fabricated in the West? As it is the Western media that is continuously misrepresenting China, the Chinese people, and their culture, the onus is logically upon the Western media to ‘prove’ that their sources are legitimate, and to coherently define their terms of reference. Without these safeguards in place, nothing appearing in the Western media can be taken as legitimate.
©opyright: Adrian Chan-Wyles (ShiDaDao) 2015.