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How Africans view racism in China: “They won’t even sit next to me”

We invited a few Africans that are studying or working in mainland China or Hong Kong to talk about their life in China and how the locals see them.

Q: Are you treated any differently in the city versus in the village?

Many interviewees have expressed that the experience in the city and village is drastically different, but most are not ill-willed. 

Berthold Ackon from Ghana is studying Chinese in Beijing Language and Culture University and often uploads videos of interviews with other Africans in China on social media. He recalls that in big cities like Guangzhou, other locals would not mind his presence and would continue their business as usual, which is completely different from his experiences in small cities and villages. 

“Some people would stare at me, some would take photos of me with their phones.”

Full translation: https://telegra.ph/How-Africans-view-racism-in-China-They-wont-even-sit-next-to-me-01-26

Source: BBC Chinese (Dec-2017)
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-42218142

#Racism #African #China

#Racism #Xenophobia #China
Is China the most Racist country in the world?

Watch the 20-minute video:
https://youtu.be/9ftZdHnHBHo

A foreigner talks about his experience of both positive and negative discrimination in China.

- 99% mainland Chinese are racist towards African Black people, whereas White people usually receive positive discrimination.
⁃ 99% imported cases in China are overseas Chinese, but the CCP doesn’t mention this and foreigners living in China are now being seen as the root cause of imported cases, even they have the green QR code and have not left China ever since January.
⁃ Foreigners are now banned from entering bars, KTVs, restaurants, hair salons or even supermarkets etc. Discrimination is everywhere in daily life.
⁃ Although iscrimination does happens everywhere in the world, those are Individual cases and all are condemned by the society and media. Whereas in China, the government, CCP, actually allows, promotes and even give clear instructions to the people to be racist. Such action is praised by the CCP. This is unique in the world.

Further reading:
Mistreatment for Africans in China - The Standard Procedure of Human Rights Suppression
https://t.me/c/1311240076/904
Coronavirus outbreak stokes Asian-phobic bigotry worldwide
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17760

#African #Black #White #CCP #Racist #ChinesePropaganda #Coronavirus

#Newspaper

Many netizens on behalf of Taiwanese apologized to Tedros
Taiwanese Investigation Bureau found Chinese Netizens did it

(11 Apr) Tedros, director of WHO, said before that he had been subjected to racist comments and death threats for months. His speech caused a lot of controversy. Then, many messages on behalf of Taiwanese apologizing to Tedrso appeared quickly. After Taiwan Investigation Bureau started an investigation, it was found that it may be done by Chinese Netizens.

Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) held a press conference lately and published an investigation report showing that many posts in twitter about “I am Taiwanese, I am ashamed of the racial discrimination and maliciously attacks to Tedros by Taiwanese. On behalf of Taiwanese, I would like to apology to Tedros and black population. I beg for his pardon.” A large amount of similar messages were found, therefore MJIB believed it was manipulated by foreign forces, and decided to investigate and find out the source.

They found a Twitter account of a broadcast website was the first one to leave message related to apologize for different European and American media. After that, a Chinese radio twitter account copied that message as an apology template, and even provided photo of Taiwanese IDs to urge other twitter users to use them to pretend as Taiwanese and publish apology tweets. Other netizens found it was interesting. MJIB has already found nearly 100 similar posts, and they would continue to investigate this incident, and urged people to be cautious to identify fake news on the Internet.

Source: Unwire HK
https://unwire.hk/2020/04/11/fake-post-apologize-who-tedros/fun-tech/

Further reading:
How is WHO Director-General elected?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16705
'If you're black you can't go out': Africans in China face racism in Covid-19 crackdown
https://bit.ly/3b5hLr4

#Tedros #African #FakeNews #Apology #Twitter #Taiwanese #ChinesePropaganda #Racism

#Discrimination
African Are Discriminated Against in China

From a video circulating on the Internet, three Nigerians were forcibly taken away from a hotel in Guangzhou by the Chinese epidemic prevention personnel, even though they were not infected by the coronavirus. According to sources, their passports were taken away by the Chinese authorities.

Source: Internet

Further reading:
African nationals 'mistreated, evicted' in China over coronavirus
https://bit.ly/3ciJyEL

McDonalds in China Forbids African from Entering
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19497

#Nigerians #African #Racism #Guangzhou #Coronavirus #Quarantine

#NetizensVoice #Discrimination
McDonald's in China forbids "black people" from entering

While China continues to be haunted by the Wuhan pneumonia, a wave of racist discrimination against foreigners has been reported in the country.

African have been severely targeted. In a latest case, a McDonald's in Guangzhou, China forbids "black people" from entering.

As a repercussion, a corporate building in Uganda purportedly issues a ban on Chinese.

Source: Internet

Further reading:
Mistreatment for Africans in China - The Standard Procedure of Human Rights Suppression
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16120

Africans in China
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16121

Africans Evicted by the Authorities for no reasons in China
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19496

#African #Racism #Guangzhou #Coronavirus #McDonalds

The Chinese Government has FOOLED you!

Youtuber SerpentZA recounts some of his friends' experiences dealing with the recently intensified racism in China. State-endorsed discrimination comes in the form of segregation on flights reminiscent of Rosa Parks, being called an "American virus", evicting Africans from apartments and forcing them to leave the country on short notice, among other examples.

When China first realised that the epidemic was a crisis, the government put Wuhan on lockdown but allowed departing international flights. It "didn't care that the virus… spread to your country", only that it did not spread within its borders.

At the same time, "China banned the export of masks and vital medical supplies". Foreign products manufactured in China were hoarded locally. The government also “ordered all state-linked companies abroad to… liberate” them from foreign countries.

He calls attention to China's attempt to save face, "the appearance that something is more important than its substance [by] spending immense amounts of money and state resources on soft power". The state-run media talks about racism and xenophobia against Chinese and Asians overseas to divert attention away from the "very real racist policies" within. "If you have ever… looked at China in a positive light… it means that their manipulative ways have worked on you."

"This is only the tip of the iceberg. China does not have this thing under control."

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Watch
https://youtu.be/KQaNdTKQyLY

Further reading:
A bot network arrived in Serbia along with coronavirus
https://bit.ly/34yZeRB
Chinese government asks Wisconsin Senate for a commendation
https://bit.ly/2XAcpQL

#Coronavirus #Racism #Xenophobia #ChinesePropaganda #African #Mask #MedicalSupplies #Selfishness

#Newspaper

China says it has a 'zero-tolerance policy' for racism, but discrimination towards Africans goes back decades

//A black version of the Chinese flag swept across African Twitter earlier this month, as users replaced their avatars to express their anger at the government of China.

//They were outraged not only by widespread reports of coronavirus-related discrimination against Africans in China, but also by claims on Chinese state media that the allegations were "groundless rumors."

//Posting under the hashtag #BlackChina, Dennis Kiplomo, a nurse from Kenya, tweeted: "We expect the kind of hospitality we give to Chinese here in Africa, be reciprocated in their home country."

//"We need a united Africa which will not be slaves of #BlackChina."

//The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has Asia's largest African population.

//Last month, many Africans were subject to forced coronavirus testing and arbitrary 14-day self-quarantine, regardless of their recent travel history, and scores were left homeless after being evicted by landlords and rejected by hotels under the guise of various virus containment measures.

//The incident caused a rupture in China-Africa relations, with the foreign ministries of several African nations -- and even the African Union -- demanding answers from China.

//Yet China's official response stopped short of admitting that the discrimination took place -- or apologizing for it.

//Traditionally, Beijing has portrayed racism as a Western problem.

//China's ties with Africa stretch back to the 1950s, when Beijing befriended newly independent states to position itself as a leader of the developing world and to counter US and USSR power during the Cold War era.

//Beijing talked up its shared history of oppression by white imperialists, condemned South Africa's apartheid early on and gave aid to Africa even when China was a poor country.

Anti-African protests
//The Nanjing event was not an outlier. In the city of Hangzhou, students claimed Africans were carriers of the AIDs virus in 1988, even though foreign students had to test negative for HIV before entering the country, wrote Barry Sautman in China Quarterly.

//in January 1989, about 2,000 Beijing students boycotted classes in protest against Africans dating Chinese women -- a recurrent lightning rod issue.

//Many African students left China as a result. Around the same time, China announced a reduction in interest-free loans for Africa, marking a cooling off of official relations, although ties were never broken.

Full article: CNN, (26-May)

Further reading:
McDonald's in China forbids "black people" from entering
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19497

#Racism #Chinese #African #Ties #Coronavirus

The University of Southern California Suspended a professor because of speaking "that" in Putonghua, discriminating against African-Americans

(North American News) A Communication Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) used a Chinese vocab "nèige" (meaning "that") with a Putonghua pronunciation, has led to a petition from a group of angry African-American. They said that it sounded like a word with discrimination or defamation to Africans, requesting an apology from the professor and the teaching suspension to have an investigation.

Professor Greg Patton has taught at USC Marshall School of Business for 20 years. During the online teaching of MBA related curriculum last month, Patton used Putonghua as an example, saying "nèige" replaces some meaningless words, like errs and umms, in China. He repeated "nèige" thrice.

Nevertheless, some students thought that the accent of the professor for "nèige" was similar to "nigga", a word that insults Africans. They pointed out that the professor had offended all African students in the class and had affected their mental health. The school said that another speaker will take over the curriculum at this moment, during the investigation period for Patton.

#US #USC #nèige #nigga #Chinese #Putonghua #Mandarin #African #AfricanAmerican #GregPatton

Source: Apple Daily #Sep05

https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20200905/2N2BECNXYJCNFNUOIFM3NQ5AXA/