This is something I occasionally come across in Western media and also heard IRL from a Chinese émigré (very lib and hates China, so I take whatever they say about the country with a grain of salt) - that the Chinese internet (and by extension, society, though probably less visibly) has a problem with widespread chauvinism and racism, against black people and ethnic minorities in China in particular, and other things such as wishing genocide on the people of Taiwan (???) or Japanese people.
Now, I’m sure China has its fair share of fascists and generic reactionary nutjobs, but I’m wondering just how bad it is. Most studies/articles come from Western institutions, so I don’t know how to feel about those.
I’m curious what studies there are in China about this, how widely discussed this is (i.e. have these sorts of internet trends ever gotten the same level of awareness that 4chan and the alt-right got in the West? What was the reaction? Is the CPC doing anything about it?), and what direction is this going in, e.g. looking back 10-20 years, has this improved or gotten worse?
Not sure about the others but bigotry against ethnic minorities within China is pretty much unheard of. Wishing genocide against Taiwan is a pretty big ? too, since most see Taiwanese people as just… Chinese people. That would be like saying Russians want to commit genocide on Donbass. Bigotry against black people might be a problem, although I saw a few black people in China and nobody really seemed to care. (Although racists don’t attack black people on the streets in the US either}
They most certainly do
That’s true. I was more thinking of things on a day-to-day basis, though, since my experiences were mostly anecdotal.