Comments on: Close Lao-Wai-Staring of the Third Kind http://blog.chineseoutpost.com/2006/11/18/close-lao-wai-staring-of-the-third-kind/ An American who taught in China in 1993-94 returns for a visit in 2006 with his native Chinese wife and their two pre-schoolers. Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:14:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grikdog http://blog.chineseoutpost.com/2006/11/18/close-lao-wai-staring-of-the-third-kind/comment-page-1/#comment-52299 Grikdog Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:50:25 +0000 http://blog.chineseoutpost.com/2006/12/15/close-lao-wai-staring-of-the-third-kind/#comment-52299 We Merkins (to our everlasting shame) automatically think racism when we encounter that heated atmosphere, but I wonder if the Chinese have a different sort of boiling envy in mind: a) China's one child per family policy, and b) Chinese family policy's unintended consequence, to prefer that "one child" to be a boy by murdering or abandoning infant daughters. So your beautiful family would be a double-pronged political criticism that all is not well in the people's paradise. The only racist attitude I've ever seen from Chinese people is an angrily overt hatred of anything Japanese... or Caucasian, I'll admit, having been on the disdainful chilly side of that stare. English-speaking Chinese-Americans receive more racist barbs than they hurl, it seems. We Merkins (to our everlasting shame) automatically think racism when we encounter that heated atmosphere, but I wonder if the Chinese have a different sort of boiling envy in mind: a) China’s one child per family policy, and b) Chinese family policy’s unintended consequence, to prefer that “one child” to be a boy by murdering or abandoning infant daughters. So your beautiful family would be a double-pronged political criticism that all is not well in the people’s paradise. The only racist attitude I’ve ever seen from Chinese people is an angrily overt hatred of anything Japanese… or Caucasian, I’ll admit, having been on the disdainful chilly side of that stare. English-speaking Chinese-Americans receive more racist barbs than they hurl, it seems.

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