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“Would you mock a Chinese tourist visiting Texas for buying and wearing a cowboy hat, or trying his hand at riding a horse?”

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Some angry white asshat on Tumblr, claiming it’s racist to laugh at white people in Africa, based on the above logic.

This is too juicy for me to pass up, let’s have some fun…

  1. Um, just so you know, Chinese people don’t have to go to Texas to “try our hand” at riding a horse. China’s Yuan Dynasty, founded by Genghis Khan in the 12th century, became the largest empire the world has ever seen through the power of warfare on horseback. Northern Chinese culture is pretty much cowboy culture; my ancestors were horse-riding herders of cattle, sheep, and goats.
  2. As for the history of the Chinese in Texas, since the 1800s there were Chinese people in Texas, California, and throughout the “Wild West”, alongside Black cowboys and Mexican cowboys. A Chinese person putting on a cowboy hat and riding a horse in Texas isn’t a new phenomenon, it’s part of US and Mexican history.
  3. Chinese people in Texas have historically faced violent white racism, as opposed to white people in Africa who have historically been the perpetrators of violent white racism and colonialism.
  4. Chinese folks don’t need to put on a cowboy hat to get mocked by white people. Racist mockery by white people is pretty much a constant.
  5. Even with all these fundamental distinctions, I’m open to laughing at a Chinese tourist donning a cowboy hat while visiting Texas, as Deng Xiaoping did when he made a state visit in 1979. The famous picture of Deng wearing a 10-gallon Stetson was published in Life magazine and amused white people in the US to no end.

(via zuky)

I think someone just got schooled. 

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