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yellow peril
noun
- (in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.
- the Asian peoples regarded as presenting such a danger.
yellow peril
noun
- the power or alleged power of Asiatic peoples, esp the Chinese, to threaten or destroy the supremacy of White or Western civilization
Yellow Peril
- A supposed threat to the United States posed by Japan and China . The phrase arose in the late nineteenth century, at a time when Japanese and Chinese immigration to America was meeting resistance and when Japan was growing as a military power. ( See internment of Japanese Americans .)
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Along the way, they reveal the intersection of real-life figures like Russell and Ezra Pound in Sino-British relations, the early British film industry’s lucrative “yellow peril films” and much more.
Conservatives have been known to privately describe Lib Dems as the 'yellow peril', a backhanded compliment to their by-election savvy, energy and ruthlessness.
The character embodied and perpetuated "yellow peril", the racist idea that Asian cultures threatened Western society.
In the late 1800s, Chinese Americans were deemed the “yellow peril,” despite living in the United States for years.
During the yellow peril era, the notion that Asian men were feminine or asexual also took root, says Connie So, an American ethnic studies teaching professor at the University of Washington.
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