Yellow Peril & Asian Male Threat | Asian American Poll

YELLOW PERIL & ASIAN MALE THREAT
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:07:33 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which best describes the way in which Asian males are perceived as a threat by other American males?
Potential physical/martial threat | 8%
Economic/workplace threat | 42%
Incipient sexual/romantic rival | 13%
Intellectual/cultural threat | 23%
No real threat | 14%

Which factor contributes most to the perception of Asian males as a threat?
Growing numbers of AM/WF couples | 18%
High concentrations in top colleges and professions | 41%
Flashy displays of personal wealth | 24%
Power and wealth of Asian nations | 8%
History of Asian wars | 9%

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The Chinese blood of many Russians and Persians. Unknown to many...

Little do we know that Europe and the West was not as mighty as it is now. Many white people, for example the Russians and Iranians may have a trace of Chinese ancestry. This I found out from another site:

While numerous foreigners came to China in the Mongol era, there was also a movement in the opposite direction. This has obviously attracted less interest in the West.

A host of many unknown Chinese people travelled as far as Iran and Russia and settled down far from their native country. When travelling from Beijing to Kabul in 1221-22, the monk Chang-chun had noted the presence of Chinese craftsmen in Outer Mongolia and in the Samarkand area. He had also learned that Chinese weavers had settled in the upper Yenisei valley.

It is said that in the 14th cent AD, there were Chinese quarters in Tabriz, Iran and even in Moscow and Novgorod. They along with Muslims, dominated the trade and tax business in Russia. Even now, in Russia, the Chinese abacus calculator is much in use.

The right hand minister of the Hulagu Khan was a Chinese by the name of Bolad Ching Sang. The man had 26 or more native Persian Muslim wives. He helped introduced paper currency (chao) to Iran during the Ilkhan as a more feasible mean of collecting tax compared to the native metal currency. Chap (from the Chinese "chao") is still a word used by Iranian people today for "printing."
A Chinese general, Kuo Kan was in command of the Khan Hulagu's armies at the siege of Iran, Damascus and Baghdad in 1258. Over one thousand Chinese foot soldiers and hydraulic engineers were employed on the irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates basins. The Mongol policy was to transfer the best qualified technicians from one end of the Eurasian continent to the other.

Thus, the Mongol domination ensured the diffusion of certain Chinese techniques in the empires of the Ilkhan in Iran and the Golden Horde in Russia. Chinese influence is perceptible in Persian miniatures, and also in Iranian ceramics, music, and architecture of the Mongol epoch. It is very light, soft and bright compared to Arab and Turkish music and architecture. Some people have even thought that they could see traces of Chinese influence in Italian painting of the 14th cent., and more particularly in Lorenzetti's "Massacre of the Franciscans at Ceuta" (c. 1340). But, it is above all in connection with the 2 great inventions of modern times in Europe that the question of stimuli and contributions from China arises.

The introduction in the 14th cent. in both the Ilkhan and Golden Horde Mongol empires of Iran and Russia of Chinese influences: playing cards, printed fabrics, and paper money was obviously connected with the appearance of wood engraving in Europe and consequently of printing with movable type. Paper money was printed at Tabriz, a great cosmopolitan centre in Iran during the Mongol era where Muslim, Greek, Italian, Armenian, Jewish, Arab, Uygurs, Mongols and Chinese all met and intermarried.

The Iranian historian, Rashid al-Din (c. 1247-1318), who had made Chinese medicine known in his "Treasure of the Ilkhan on the Sciences of Cathay (1313), is the first to mention the Chinese invention of wood engraving. Wood engraving, known in Europe 30 or 40 years before the knowledge of printing, was immensely successful there. Holy pictures, playing cards, and little books with text and illustrations were printed. As for the idea of using movable type, it is to be supposed to have spread into Europe also during this time via Russia or Iran.

As for the other great invention of modern times, the firearm, we know that Mongols had employed Chinese siege engineers with firearm weaponry during the campaigns in Iran, Caucasus and Arabia. In Europe, they were used for the first time at the Battle of Sajo in Hungary in 1241

We must ask ourselves this question: "Why is it that the Western academia, especially pertaining to the studies of history is so prone to leave out or omit the accomplishments of non-whites? We know for a fact that the Mongols were not just primitive and blood thirsty savages in the simple sense. They are barbarians, but not in the same category as the Vandals, Vikings, Zulus, etc. The Mongol Khans were shrewd and cunning statesmen as well as warriors. As you see, they had utilized Chinese expertise in the governing and taxing of Persia and Russia.

Western views of history is often tainted and biased by race prejudices and an obsessive sexual impulse. When there is race mixing going on between non-white men and white/Caucasoid women, they cannot view the history and accomplishments from a clear lens. I have wrote a dissertation on this same topic, only to be coldly rejected. I wonder why? Even, the Chinese, Turks and Persian scholars do not deny they past.
A time in history when Asia was still supreme Thursday, December 27, 2001 at 00:39:45 (PST)

Explain to me the differnce between rape and murder committed by Mongols and rape and murder committed by other conqueres around the world.
What Ghengis Khan is not different then what Crusaders did in teh Holy Land. No different then what Vikings did along the English shoreline. No different then what Vlad the Impaler. No different then what Shaka of the Ama Zulu did to neighboring tribes. No different then what Byzantians did to the Bulgarians. No different then what Aztecs did, Mayans did, Laotians did, Germans did, Damios of Japans, Rajas of India.
No man who kills and rapes or allows his armies to do so is any way morally different from Ghengis Khan.
The only difference is that of the conquerors, he was probably the most successful. He never had his Waterloo or even a river Jhelom (where the armies of Alexander defeated the Indian King Poris, but the victory was so costly that his armies refused to go any further).
Much of the hate against Ghengis Khan is based upon his successes against western powers, hence western historians place him in the most negative light.

Tink Monday, December 24, 2001 at 20:14:28 (PST)

bi-cultural, what conquerer didn't invade, rape, and pillage?
AM Monday, December 24, 2001 at 09:26:25 (PST)

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