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The yellow peril
- ▪ the political or military threat regarded as being posed by the Chinese or by the peoples of Southeast Asia
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Yellow Peril
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Racist color-metaphor that represents East Asian peoples as an 'existential danger' to the West Europe and America
The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror, the Yellow Menace and the Yellow Specter) is a racist color metaphor that depicts the peoples of East and Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western world. The concept of the Yellow Peril derives from a "core imagery of apes, lesser men, primitives, children, madmen, and beings who possessed special powers", which developed during the 19th cent... Wikipedia
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