Feel free to add common myths about the East that you’d like cleared up. Or how you’ve already cleared it up. It might help me or another reader.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    As I understand it, it comes down to overly simplistic, exaggerated, or just plain inaccurate perceptions and portrayals of people from Africa and South/East Asia. Stuff like

    CW: Racism
    • acting like Japanese people are incomprehensible without understanding this strange foreign concept called “face” (which is really just a shorthand for the universal desire not to look like an asshole in public)
    • treating Japan, China, and (sometimes) Korea as if they were all interchangeable
    • basically any criticism libs make of China/the CPC
    • fixating on “exotic” foreign foods and acting like that’s all they eat (see: “Chinese people eat dogs!”, ignoring that they eat far more rice, soybeans, eggs, and chicken)
    • treating Muslim religious extremism as arising ex nihilo and proof of the inherent inferiority of Middle Eastern culture without any understanding of the history or material conditions that brought it about