We bloggers are an interesting breed of mavericks, who likes to think "out of the box." In these past two weeks, I have been following the relentless bombardment from the "Yellow Peril" China bashers, demonizers, and lynchers from the WEST. We Chinese inside and outside of China, especially in the WEST, have been caricaturised as the buck-toothed, slitty-eyed outsider, and worse, a horde of "yellow invaders."
To my astonishment, I discovered one lucid and gutsy Brit from London, with whom I shared similar despicable contempt about and over, i.e. this "Yellow Peril" strident crowd... those dumb idiots whose stridency is replete with racism and loathsome fear of an emerging CHINA. Historically, this "yellow peril" syndrome has been a pervasive theme in the white mindsets.
I like Brendan O' Neill and his blogs from London. Thanks to Bevin Chu, another iconoclast blogger who is an amazing Chinese intellectual with such a grasp of the farcical and hypocritical WEST, who can write fluidly in both the English and Chinese languages, I now invite you from Spatium Trientis, to read both bloggers, Brendan O Neill, and Bevin Chu, and their "outstanding" "out of the box" commentaries in their respective blog sites.
Brendan O'Neill is the editor of Spiked, the 'sassy, irreverent, UK-based online magazine of news and opinion'http://www.brendanoneill.net/spiked.htm
Consider reading Mr. O Neill's piece on "Slitty eyes and buck teeth? It must be China"
http://www.spiked-online.co.uk/index.php?/site/article/4975 I appreciate his guts to call it like he sees it on the "Yellow peril" syndrome and the devilish "yellow" stereotypes.
Thanks. Xie Xie. Mr. O Neill, from us in San Francisco, America's most "ethnic Chinese" city, to you in London.
And read up on the absolutely fascinating blogs of Bevin Chu at his blog site, The China Desk 中國紅
http://thechinadesk.blogspot.com/
It will blow your minds away when you read them. And of course, don't forget to spread the word about Spatium Trientis.
The playing field is leveling out. And the world of blogosphere is here to stay, and grow as "citizen journalists" armed with laptop, cell phones, and digital cameras eat the lunches of old media, trapped in their warped mentality of smugness and hubris.
Venceremos !
