Yellow Peril & Asian Male Threat | Asian American Poll

YELLOW PERIL & ASIAN MALE THREAT
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:07:31 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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I agree with the social effects of military presence in Japan and South Korea in particular. It can't be more wrong to let anyone go unjailed for raping a 12 years old. Could you imagine a foreign soldier supposedly task is to help protect this country happen to rape a 12 year old American teenager? That person will be capitally punished, the public will not stand for it. I think it's up to the US military leadership to address these issues and set an example for what justice our country stands for.
Concerned AM Wednesday, January 02, 2002 at 06:44:19 (PST)

Asian man should have pride and be a real man:

I commend that post. AA and other Asians in the Western world should realize that we are all still Asians no matter what country we happen to live in. Asians are a race and more people should be proud of being Asian.

Thanks for a good post.
Nice to see a postive post! Tuesday, January 01, 2002 at 16:40:14 (PST)

To Asian man should have pride and be a real man. That has nothing to do with Chinese culture itself. It's the Chinese government.

"I don't like to bag on other Asians, as deep down, we are all the same. We can never be a proud people until we are free of this image."

No, we are not all the same. Each is totally distinct. Even Latinos, who pretty much all speak the same language, don't like to be lumped together. How are Asians, who all speak different languages and even dialects, supposed to be all put into the same group? The difference between a Cambodian and Japanese is like black and white, or even more so.
Toi San Jai Eric@KristinKreuk.net Tuesday, January 01, 2002 at 12:17:31 (PST)

Asian man should have pride and be a real man:

I too have been in these countries and cities that you mention and I disagree with you. True in China you don´t see as many white people around and in general it seems as if the gender boundaries and inequalities have been somewhat erased by communism.
But of course Japanese and Korea women have dignity too. What are you talking about, man! It´s just that the west has been around there for a longer time. So maybe that´s why you see women dress very western like.
Never once even in downtown Itaewon did I see an American soldier do anything offensive to a Korean woman.
And no race should be afraid og another. That´s crazy talk and a weird unhealthy way of thinking.
And you do realise that if a white guy even walks around with his Asian girlfriend in China he could get arrested? So maybe that´s why too.
Madeleine Tuesday, January 01, 2002 at 10:06:51 (PST)

Chagdai,

The Khwarazm Turks couldn't have military conflict with the Chin because they were not immediately bordered with the China. Their closest neighbors in China were the Western Liao (Khitans) in today's Xinjiang Uygur province of China. Even if they defeated the Liao, they would still have to contend with the Xixia (Tangut Tibetan dynasty in northwestern China). Only after they overcome these 2, then would they have a chance with the Jurchen Chin dynasty in north China.
tel Monday, December 31, 2001 at 17:36:30 (PST)

What the Chinese historians are doing on this thread (claming Chinese blood for Iranians and Russians) are only what white historians and scholars have been doing for centuries.

Just look at their studies in India and Afghanistan. There is a very fair and blonde tribe in the mountains of southern Afghanistan (Nuristanis). The Western scholars claim (without fact) that these people are descendants of Alexander the Great's Greek soldiers. They claim the same for many blonde tribes in that area and northern Pakistan. Just compare the combined populations of Afghanistan and Pakistan of that of Greece and Western Turkey, and it is still the Indo-Aryans outnumbering the Hellenic people by a ratio of 100:1. Now, back then, it might have been 10:1. Still, that was not enough to make a genetic impact.

And, how the Ainus of Japan and the Kenniwick Man in Americas? Studies have shown that the DNA of these groups do not even come close to Caucasoids.

If white people can claim white blood among the peoples of Asia, why can't the Asians do the same? When, in fact, it is more true with latter.

White double standards are not fair Monday, December 31, 2001 at 17:31:11 (PST)

Seaman,

Can you tell me if the British ever employed Sherpa soldiers in northern India and Pakistan? They did a genetic study on people living in Delhi and say that their DNA has some semblances to Sino-Tibetans as well as Aryan.

Hindi Monday, December 31, 2001 at 17:24:07 (PST)

Man, you guys make me laugh!!!

Granted, that there were lots of Chinese soldiers, administrators, merchants, artisans, doctors etc. that accompanied the Mongols to Persia and Russia. Also, granted that these Chinese men did stay behind and mix with local women. So, what? Their racial and genetic contributions were too few and negligible to leave an impact. Their Asian genes were bred out of existence. That is not to say that Persians and Russians do not have some Asian blood. They do, but it would be ridiculous to say all of them have it.

It is as if some of you Asian, especially Chinese guys see your own race as lower and inferior. And, that by claiming some whites (Russians, Persians) have some of your Chinese or Asian blood is only saying that "you white guys are racist, but you white guys also have some of my dirt (genes)." Get what I am saying?
A white man Monday, December 31, 2001 at 17:21:21 (PST)

Also, don't say that women in China don't prostitute themselves, because a good portion of those mainlanders do for the easy money. Shanghai, although a major city, is full of those.
frowning Monday, December 31, 2001 at 16:59:39 (PST)

First of all, U.S. military presence in Tokyo is next to not being noticeable. Secondly, Okinawa is the main place where there is any foreign military presence in Japan. Tokyo is Japan's techonological center and is a cosmopolitan city. Do you seriously think people believe you saying that men can slap women in the buttocks in Tokyo and get away with it? Pulease. If you want to stir up trouble, at least update your knowledge.
frowning Monday, December 31, 2001 at 16:58:47 (PST)

Asian man,

Nice to know you had a good time in China. But forget about reaching out to the other Asian countries. They are so far gone in their inferiority complexes, esp. the Japanese and Koreans, that their favorite past times is to insult and speak badly of China and the Chinese. Why is this? Because they seek so much to be accepted by Whites, that's why they feel such a need to distance themselves from the Chinese. They're hopeless, forget them.
sss Monday, December 31, 2001 at 15:35:42 (PST)

Asian man should have pride and be a real man,

I've noticed the same thing in Shang Hai. However, it is only in the daytime in the streets. In the clubs in China I notice the same behavior as other asian cities. A few women still are interested in the few white foriegners in the clubs. I also noticed in the hotel I was staying at. That they stopped a white male and an asian female from entering after 10pm. I did not hang out long enough to see if the white male bribed his way out or what. Myself being Chinese I rarely run into problems like that.

I guess where ever you go it is not good to stick out like a sore thumb.
AC dropout Monday, December 31, 2001 at 11:40:10 (PST)

I have travelled to many Asian nations. In many of them, such as Thailand, Phillipines, South Korea, Japan, etc. you cannot escape the presence of the U.S.A. military presence. The Asian people in these nations have an inferiority complex vis-a-vis Westerners. I love to go dancing in nightclubs. In Seoul and Tokyo, the white people acted very vulgar and in sexually offensive manners towards the local women (slapping women's buttocks on the streets). It seemed like common occurances there.

Now, when I visited Guangzhou and Beijing, it was an entirely different atmosphere. There were no white USA soldier on any of China's streets. Only lots of Chinese PLA (People's Liberation Army) soldiers. Foreigners maintained their manners (at least outwardly in public) towards the local. One American white guy who was with me on the tour, confided to me the fear of the stern eyed Chinese soldiers he occasionally sees on the streets. Not one white foreigner dared to lay a finger on a Chinese woman in the street. Likewise, no Chinese woman tried to whore herself like the ones I saw in Japan and South Korea. The Chinese are a proud people with over 5,000 years civilization. They have dignity.

As an Asian, and a Chinese-American, I felt so proud seeing this. It was the first time in my life to see white people so afraid of Asians. I know a lot of white Americans who were once stationed abroad in Asia, but when they visited China and said the same thing. This is the only Asian country they felt respect for women.

The U.S. military presence in Asia and the resulting behavior there adds to the stereotypes that Asian women are easy for the booty call.

I don't like to bag on other Asians, as deep down, we are all the same. We can never be a proud people until we are free of this image.
Asian man should have pride and be a real man Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 18:42:44 (PST)

just another view,

Actually Chagdai was right. But it was Khubilai Khan who conquerd the Sung. He used his own amry and Korean sailors to defeat the Sung on both ladn==nd and sea. But Khubilai was unable to breach the two fortified Sung towns of Fan-ch'eng and Hsiang-yang. The seige went on for 3 years. Despearte to breach the walls and end the stalemate he contacted Abaqa in Persia who sent two Persians named Ismail and Ala-al Din. They surveyed the two towns and went about desiging magonels and catapults strong enough to hurl 1500 lb stones. Once constructed, both cities fell after a few days of shelling.
Also The Shah of Khwarasm was undefeated until he met Ghengis. He commanded 400,000 cavalry in Tranoxsania ( one state in his empire) alone and was considered master of the west. He also desired to conquer the Chin in the north but Ghengis Khan beat him to it. The Shah unfortunately was ill-equiped to deal with Ghengis Khan's army, arranged in small, fast archery/cavalry units, as was every army on earth at the time.
Seaman Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 16:11:54 (PST)

"The Asians (at least the mainland Chinese) and Middle Easterners all think like an Osama bin Laden. They will never succumb to white supremacy."

Asians in China may not succumb to white supremacy, but Islamic fundamentalists and Osama bin Laden have aided and abeted white supremacy. Putting non-white women behind the burquah means less competition for whites in the global economy, which means the whites dominate as a result of the stupidity of the likes of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. Guess who gets paid to rebuild Afghanistan especially regarding gender issues as result of the brain-dead Taliban and bin Laden policies. You got it right. It is the white women.
Asian American Male Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 15:29:07 (PST)

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