Biracial Chinese/ Black girls goes on "Let's Go Oriental Angels" and gets dissed nation wide.

[kifaru]

Lou Jing (娄婧)
Nobody and I mean nobody likes black people.

notice the middle finger

[CaliforniaAfrican]

The comments written by the Chinese followers were horrible. Yes, there was a theme of racism and cultural discrimination. What struck me the most, Kifaru, was the way in which her mother was seen by those who left comments. SHE was seen as a villan because SHE chose to have sex with a Black man. How dare she choose a man of African descent in which to bed AND bear his child? The level of vitriol for the mother was outrageous. The perhaps missed message in that piece was clear to me: Chinese women, you do not have the right to have sex with whom you please and we will shame you and your offspring if you do. All over the world, too often women's sexuality and sexual decisions are being controlled by men, or society as a whole. Just as important as the story of "nobody lilkes Black people" that you see, this is a story of a woman being shamed for having a child with a man without the consent of those within her society. The audacity to have sex with whomever she chose and not be ashamed. Who the hell did she think she was? Liberated? Equal? Free? Damn.

[kifaru]

There seemd to me the belief that she was born out of wedlock and in an adulterous affair. This is the reason some people are incensed. They say her mother cheated on her chinese husband. You the know the reason floating around? Because blacks have bigger penises. How the hell does this racial shit exported to china?

She is cute though. I would have never guesed she was biracial.

[LesYpersound]

she was born out of wedlock but her mother wasn't married.
she's not talented--she sings way off key, but she has a cute voice and apparently speaks w/ a strong accent from Shanghai. ...if she was actually talented then I would be poo-poo'ing the general reason for the uproar around her which is saying she and her mother and the show have no shame.
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Culturally, the chinese are very, incredibly racist and intolerant esp if you're anything but Han chinese...
and apparently communist china leadership isn't exempt from this foolishness since they prevented a half black athlete from representing china at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. And remember these (leadership) are the same people that kept a little girl from singing at the opening ceremonies because she wasn't "cute enough".

[Obsidian]

Chinese show sexism and nergophobia. This is suppose to be news? I thought this was a common thing. And to be on a program called Oriental Angel. I thought the word oriental is used to describe objects, not flesh and blood people. I think it is good that issues of identity spring up in any country if it helps to bring humanity one step closer to that dream I have of total transhuman-ness e.g. where people don't give a fug about "race" because we would be constantly changing and redefining our outer appearance.

[Mlle d. Sade]

Asia is very xenophobic simply because there are only asians in asia and they haven't had the melting pot other parts of the world have in this era, anyway. They even hate other asians- even other Chinese people from different parts of China! In China north vs south is still a sore subject which is why her accent was brought up (the show is in the predominant language, Mandarin and people from southern China (Cantonese or Shanghai-ese or Hong Kong -ese) speak Mandarin with a heavy accent and they hate it). The last time I checked the northern chinese were in control, not the southerners. Han chinese get their culture fucked with too by the mainland powers that be.

It's sad to see them calling themselves "oriental" but it's just like Native Americans have accepted that they are "indians" and not Native Americans. It's psychological.

Maybe she should try it in Hong Kong, I think they are more open. The north is. ...the north.

[blaqvenus]

She is beautiful. Tyra needs to take her under her wing.lol. But really, it's sad and it angers me that people look at differences before they look at similarities in all human beings. I am so sick of this racism and cultural bull crap. It's getting old.

[Compound Egret]

Ouch. Pretty tough situation.

[Darkness Unlimited*]

I can not understand what these chinks are saying. SPEAK ENGRISH!

[Felicia Genet (Lindsey)]

Shocked to read the racist comments written by some of you all!!!!! Craziness!!!! I thought we were here to get away from that... "Chinks"..."rice eat'n bastards"...."Fuckin' commies"...wow. I'm disgusted!

[Mlle d. Sade]

Felicia Genet (Lindsey) said:

Shocked to read the racist comments written by some of you all!!!!! Craziness!!!! I thought we were here to get away from that... "Chinks"..."rice eat'n bastards"...."Fuckin' commies"...wow. I'm disgusted!

Oh, the irony of those comments. Retaliatory racism is just as bad. She is Chinese, she was raised in chinese culture so she doesn't have to "come over to america" if she doesn't want to. You can't solve a situation with more ethnic slurs and retaliation.

[LesYpersound]

Asia as a whole isn't exceptionally xenophobic--on the contrary it has been extraordinarily cosmopolitan, multiethnic, and multiracial... especially when you look at South, South East, Central and Western Asia--the folks who are extraordinarily xenophobic to the point of violence/genocides are East Asians (esp the Japanese [WWII] and Chinese [Tibet] in recent history).

Also, in many ways Hong Kong can be more conservative than Mainland China because they're trying to preserve their Chinese traditions and social mores whereas the Communists forged newer traditions and in some ways can be more tolerant of difference (esp homosexuality for example).

Mlle d. Sade said:

Asia is very xenophobic simply because there are only asians in asia and they haven't had the melting pot other parts of the world have in this era, anyway. They even hate other asians- even other Chinese people from different parts of China! In China north vs south is still a sore subject which is why her accent was brought up (the show is in the predominant language, Mandarin and people from southern China (Cantonese or Shanghai-ese or Hong Kong -ese) speak Mandarin with a heavy accent and they hate it). The last time I checked the northern chinese were in control, not the southerners. Han chinese get their culture fucked with too by the mainland powers that be.
It's sad to see them calling themselves "oriental" but it's just like Native Americans have accepted that they are "indians" and not Native Americans. It's psychological. Maybe she should try it in Hong Kong, I think they are more open. The north is. ...the north.

also fuck the racist stupidity in this thread... props to her mother for dealing with the shit from all sides. also remember that this chinese mother chose to keep and encourage her child regardless of the one-child rule and racism in china.

[Mlle d. Sade]

Of course I meant east Asia and not south and whatever else. Because they are the ones you usually hear stuff like this from and they tend to be very vocal about wanting things to be all Chinese or all Japanese.

Hong Kong is only more conservative in the cultural sense, that does not translate to the xenophobia the mainland has. They are only protective of what they have because the mainland is really trying to stamp their individualism/culture out. Their culture is an old hold out and unique from the north's since they are the descendants of the people "captured" by the Mongols. They were made to shave the front part of their heads and braid the back to symbolize how they'd been captured like horses. This prejudice from the days of Genghis Khan still exists between north and south (which is why they pointed out her shanghai-ese.). They are the "old" chinese, their languages, even their movies (China's most famous exports got their start in Hong Kong and are mostly all southern and the mainland wants a piece of that or else) since HK movies are a symbol of their triumph over mainland oppression.

The reason I was saying Hong kong would be more accepting because HK and the port lands like Macau and Guangdong have a longer history of being a multi-racial hub especially after being in control of various other european countries, they are less homogeneous than other parts of China. A lot of peoples have passed through their ports. Particularly in the 80s a lot of their household names in entertainment were multiracial or just not Chinese. They're traditionalists in the sense that they feel they need to protect themselves from the mainland government trying to erase the last of the Hans. Which they are actively doing. It's like ethnic cleansing and HK is a symbol of the resistance to that. The reason Hong Kong movies exist in the first place was to escape persecution.

It's a stretch but a thought I had. Even now Canto pop has more non-Chinese (but still other asian ethnicities) singers than the mainland.