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Anti-Sinoism and Anti-Seresism

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Since there is also a lot of hatred for Chinese in America, I thought I’d take that and see if the words apply to chinese people. My goal is not to besmirch or belittle the goals of defining and preventing anti-semitism. But I have often wondered why Chinese people are not protected like Jewish people? Why can elected official get on TV and say “Chinese steal our stuff” but never can they say “Jews steal our stuff.” Circumstantially, sure it might not be necessary because Israel is a closer aly of US than China, but still, those words ring evil in my ears. So here it is the Chinese version of anti-semitism. In two forms, since I don’t know the right modernization of latin or greek names for Chinese.

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Antisinoism
“Antisinoism is a certain perception of Chinese, which may be expressed as hatred toward Chinese. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisinoism are directed toward Chinese or non-Chinese individuals and/or their property, toward Chinese community institutions and religious facilities.”

To guide IHRA in its work, the following examples may serve as illustrations:

Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of China, conceived as a Chinese collectivity. However, criticism of China similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisinotic. Antisinoism frequently charges Chinese with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Chinese for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.

Contemporary examples of antisinoism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:

Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Chinese in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.  Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Chinese as such or the power of Chinese as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Chinese conspiracy or of Chinese controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.  Accusing Chinese as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Chinese person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Chinese.  Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Chinese people at the hands of imperial Japan and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust Accusing the Chinese as a people, or China as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.  Accusing Chinese citizens of being more loyal to China, or to the alleged priorities of Chinese worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.  Denying the Chinese people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of China is a racist endeavor.  Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.  Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisinoism (e.g., claims of Chinese killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize China or Chinese.  Drawing comparisons of contemporary Chinese policy to that of the Nazis.  Holding Chinese collectively responsible for actions of the state of China.  Antisinotic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antisinotic materials in some countries).

Criminal acts are antisinotic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property – such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries – are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Chinese or linked to Chinese.

Antisinotic discrimination is the denial to Chinese of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.
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Antiseresism
“Antiseresism is a certain perception of Chinese, which may be expressed as hatred toward Chinese. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antiseresism are directed toward Chinese or non-Chinese individuals and/or their property, toward Chinese community institutions and religious facilities.”

To guide IHRA in its work, the following examples may serve as illustrations:

Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of China, conceived as a Chinese collectivity. However, criticism of China similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antiseresic. Antiseresism frequently charges Chinese with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Chinese for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs seresister stereotypes and negative character traits.

Contemporary examples of antiseresism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:

Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Chinese in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.  Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Chinese as such or the power of Chinese as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Chinese conspiracy or of Chinese controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.  Accusing Chinese as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Chinese person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Chinese.  Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Chinese people at the hands of imperial Japan and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust Accusing the Chinese as a people, or China as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.  Accusing Chinese citizens of being more loyal to China, or to the alleged priorities of Chinese worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.  Denying the Chinese people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of China is a racist endeavor.  Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.  Using the symbols and images associated with classic antiseresism (e.g., claims of Chinese killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize China or Chinese.  Drawing comparisons of contemporary Chinese policy to that of the Nazis.  Holding Chinese collectively responsible for actions of the state of China.
Antiseresic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antiseresic materials in some countries).

Criminal acts are antiseresic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property – such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries – are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Chinese or linked to Chinese.

Antiseresic discrimination is the denial to Chinese of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.
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Superficially reading it, aside from being accused of killing Jesus, everything else is still relevant. There are people who hate Chinese. There are definitely denial of Holocaust in China whenever Chinese people talk about war evils done by Nazi Japan–or accusations of exaggerating thereof. Chinese Communists are frequently compared with Nazis, especially in front of the Chinese. Fear of Chinese loyalty to the China the country(countries). There is frequent and official characterization that the State of China is racist against Muslims. etc.

What do you think? The wishes of anti-anti-semites, with exception of Jesus and Germany(Japan), almost entirely align with the wishes of anti-anti-sinoics and anti-anti-seres.

Why Chinese

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Somebody recently told me that in early 2023, legislations were proposed and passed in several states of USA to exclude Chinese people from buying properties.

It’s a holy shit, deja vu moment. Sure sure you can read the news and tell me that it targets Chinese nationals working on behalf of the people’s republic of China. Whatever! That’s just not what a Chinese person (or any other American) hears when they hear “exclude Chinese from buying property” everyone knows exactly what it means: being Chinese is undesirable and we must rid of them.

But I do wonder, like, what is so great about my Chinese-hood? Why can I not dissociate myself from the “Chinese” in the legislations and news that report them? Why Chinese ? Why do Chinese culture and people need to exist at all? Why is desirable in any way shape or form?

The majority of people who identify with the Chinese are raised and grown in the PRC. For better or for worse, they do have significant indoctrination about why everything from its historic culture to modern governance are all just the best of the best of the best ever ever and for ever and ever and ever. This type of indoctrination is neither irrational nor unfair in any sense of those words. Most Americans, myself included, will quickly belittle that pride in that culture citing irrational fiction indoctrination. This disparaging proclivity is not necessarily supported by facts or events that we personally experienced. (Meaning it is at least in part caused by irrational fiction indoctrination of our own)

So, in all honesty, why do I not want China and Chinese to have negative meaning? Why do I think it deserves to have a better meaning to every single person who speaks or thinks these words? Why do I care about what hidden neurons these tokens activate in the human neural network? Why should China and Chinese mean anything but what we think and feel they mean right now?

This is an open question to the whole world.

I will jot down some first impressions as I settle my mind into this question:

  • Functional
    • Alive—it is a surviving culture.
    • Communication—The Chinese language runs a very big country and feeds many mouths.
    • Productive—The country have always produced much in many good ways.
    • Adaptive—Can you imagine the constitution of Communist PRC having clause guaranteeing religious freedom of its citizens as a human right?? Check that out!! Chinese people and culture can seem rigid and inept, but some times they are surprisingly accepting of foreign ideas. I mean com’n does anybody remember the adoption of national population control from foreign “scientists”?
    • Optimizing
    • Efficient—Check out Ancient Chinese language, it is “highly compressed“ in terms of number of characters used to communicate. For god’s sake, they don’t even type space, you have to infer word boundaries while you read Chinese!! The “Strong concepts” section below is a single character per bullet point when mentioned in historical texts.
  • Complex—the complexity and diversity of the culture hints at its beauty and value that has yet to manifest. This may seem silly, but I believe reverence for complexity is something that we generally accept as humans.
  • Strong innate concepts of
    • Honesty—the words have immediate association with the concept of honesty to Chinese people. Honesty is a strong and innate concept to the culture
    • Piety—here one mostly think of Gilliam piety, but certainly there are, and have been, a lot of Chinese who are pious to other subjects.
    • Loyalty
    • Compassion
    • Charity
    • Social Order—Although Chinese scholars debate what’s right, the need for structured social order pervades Chinese history.
    • Career—Although this is traditionally asked of men, the idea having a life-long career is a must is very Chinese.
    • Aspiration—the idea that people should have grand aspiration or to be devoted to a cause. Possibly more than life-long endeavor.
    • Hardship—huge thing for Chinese, lots of stuff about how to deal with hardship of all kinds.
    • Striving—We believe in hard work. What ever that means to Chinese people.
    • Teacher—has a very special place in the heart of Chinese people.
    • Duality—most often Yin and Yang, but other dualities too.
    • Collective good—Chinese people and culture have this concept and frequently discourse regarding it.
    • Love—modern Chinese focus on parental love and patriotic love. But from the amount of historical text addressing the subject in a negative way, and the population, we can gather that Chinese people and culture experiences and value a lot of love of many kind.

What else?