Racial Hierarchy

The Whites and the Yellows are responsible for the Blacks being the lowest among the racial hierarchy in the 1900s

Introduction

A racial hierarchy is a system of stratification to force people to believe one race is better than the other ones. In order to differentiate the different social groups, people may classify them according to skin tone, eye colors and etc. These biological differences do not include cultural differences but they are used to legitimize the role expectations. There physical forms are given social meanings. Using a fact from the Americans in the 1900s, the white are expected to be richer, well educated and have a higher employment rate than the blacks in that time of period. This may not be the real statistic in the

The education and political system in China is still not yet well developed as the West. People have less chance to encounter the foreign culture and especially foreign people. Therefore they may have bias towards the people with different colors and especially the Blacks. (It may due to they have been ruled by some barbarians from the West, in some dynasties, so they still have some basic ideas how the Whites look like.) Although in the Chinese education, they have a saying that, “ The world was perceived as one homogenous unity named ‘great community’ “, people still have a sense of bias towards the Blacks. According to Liang Qichao, the Blacks are lazy and stupid. The people who have a darker skin were driven only by instinctive desires for food and sex. He has also stated that the blacks’ behavior is despicable. They only die without regret if they have succeeded in touching a white woman’s skin and they have often done these by lurking in the darkness of words to rape them. It is clear that how bad and negative is the image of the blacks in the Chinese people eyes. The treat them not only like the worst kind of people in the society, the Chinese

In the drawings from the Boxer Rebellion in the 1900s, the artist has viewed the Blacks the goat and the government officials were given the authorities to execute the Blacks, which was drawn as a goat in the drawings. The arrows were shot all along the body of the goat with the black head, which is directly indicating the people who has the skin color of black. The picture also comes with a narration that the beast should not be coming to the place and asks them if they would still consider coming to the land of China if they know that they have the consequence of being executed. It is obvious that the Blacks are unwelcome to the country. This condition does not only apply politically, but also within the younger generation from that time. The Chinese students at that time were unwilling to encounter and have contact with the student who has the skin color of black. They would trying to call them devils and threatened to kill them. In Dikötter’s book, a African student has mentioned that when they walked on the street, people would insult them, The people would call them “black devils” and so on. Even if they were alone, they would insult them and if they were with a girl, they would say she is a hooker and was doing it for money. The labeling of the Blacks as the devils and animals has indicated that the degree of racism in China is very strong. They see them as the least respectful people with the lowest rankings among the society, even