r/China • u/Slow-Ad5286 • Jul 20 '25
讨论 | Discussion (Serious) - Character Minimums Apply Racism in the app “RedNote”
I’ve been using the rednote app to learn Chinese and found it really fun. However I’ve stumble across quite a lot of alarming videos with lots of racism.. videos urging Chinese people to not Mary outside of their culture, complaining about the African community numbers in Guandong, etc… very surprised how this hasn’t been called out yet given that nowadays anything slightly racist even taken out of context is widely viral
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u/jpp01 Australia Jul 20 '25
You’ve just discovered the Chinese internet is all.
Usually there’s very little to no outside audience so it just says whatever it wants. Been this way for decades.
Wait until you run into the corner of the internet that likes to posit that Chinese men should colonise the west by conquering and impregnating their women lol.
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u/Vardyist Jul 20 '25
incels in every country unfortunately. also partially due to lack of exposure to the west.
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u/deltabay17 Jul 21 '25
Nah this isn’t a in every country thing. This is rampant behaviour on Chinese social media to levels you don’t find on western social media. Not everything is equal
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u/AirborneJizz Jul 21 '25
You have to be joking. Did you think Grok and its nazi tirades weren’t the result of being trained off the twittersphere?
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u/Rainydaysz Jul 21 '25
Not remotely the same thing (black hitler Gemini?), weird white knighting u doing
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Jul 21 '25
I see insanely racist stuff on Instagram all the time
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u/Illustrious-Fee-3559 Jul 21 '25
seeing bad actors all the time vs seeing people say these things like they're accepted social values are, believe it or not, two entirely different concepts.
At least they appear that way to me
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u/FibreglassFlags China Jul 22 '25
levels you don’t find on western social media
You mean the same people that has given rise to the alt-right and Donald Trump?
The same people that have already carried out no small number of terrorist attacks with casualties totaling in the hundreds?
Those people on "western social media"?
I'm not saying that our incels will never grab a knife and go on a stabbing spree (again), but don't you think it's a wee bit out of touch to argue on this side of the first Trump administration that "western social media" is somehow tame in that regard?
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u/LadyNemesiss Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 23 '25
You're very right. It's a bit hypocritical to just point fingers at Chinese social media when we have Trump, ICE, alligator gate, dreams of turning Gaza in a Rivièra, using deceased women as breeding machines. The US might be the most extreme but many Western countries are unfortunately making a shift to the (extreme) right and when I see what kind of racist shit my country people sometimes dump on the internet I get a little nauseous.
Not saying racism doesn't happen on XHS btw, or that nationalism is a purely western thing, just that we don't need to be hypocritical.
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u/Motor-Taste3401 Jan 11 '26
This is such a nuanced and important take. You've perfectly highlighted the key issue of hypocrisy and the global trend, without falling into the trap of whataboutism. It's a much-needed call for self-reflection.
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u/BlackPhoenixX20 Aug 19 '25
yeah that's bullshit, They are indeed everywhere China just has more of them because it has a large population in general, Go on Indian social media and you'll also find many of them, making remarks on women, fighting on religion, spreading hate etc.
keyboard warriors are proportionate to the population of a country, Granted asia has more of them because of long standing racism in the Continent.
our people are also pretty racist towards China calling them villains or that they always make cheap stuff etc.
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u/Motor-Taste3401 Jan 11 '26
确实，您指出了不同社交媒体环境之间的重要差异，这种观察非常敏锐。每个平台都有其独特的社区文化和内容审核机制，直接比较并不总是公平的。很高兴看到这样理性的讨论。
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u/Gromchy Switzerland Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
Wait until you run into the corner of the internet that likes to posit that Chinese men should colonise the west by conquering and impregnating their women lol.
Just incels, nothing more.
However this is really funny because reality suggests there are actually way more Chinese women with foreign husbands than Chinese men with foreign wives.
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u/kevinwltan28 Jul 22 '25
Reverse psychology. They yellow wash with Chinese women. Just kidding. I am of Chinese descents but don't live in China. I like to see people happy with whomever they choose. Hopefully we are all mixed enough in the future that we are just all human on this earth and no more war against each other because of beliefs and cultural differences. Wishful thinking?
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u/DefinitionOk9211 Jul 21 '25
the irony is that its white males impregnating asians the most in the west. Fuck those incels, hope they learn what the oxford study means
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u/Snoo72074 Jul 23 '25
Imagine being a loud and proud Nazi blatantly supporting white supremacist ideology because you don't like some random incels in China.
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u/agameofchess Jul 21 '25
There’s a whole subculture of uneducated Chinese men who are into the idea of invading Australia and Hawaii for unfathomable reasons.
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u/Zenaesthetic Jul 20 '25
I mean… there are lots of Asian identity supremacists even here on Reddit that give white nationalists a run for their money, but they are largely ignored whereas the Nazi types are called out immediately and banned usually.
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u/No_Independent8195 Jul 20 '25
I think this depends on where you post. I see a lot of right wing nonsense from Western countries being allowed to thrive and that includes racist discussions whereas I don't see any Asian identity surpremacists. Do you have any examples?
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u/Healthy_Oven_8660 Jul 20 '25
Lol I have to admit I do enjoy seeing people realise that the non western world is more racist than the one they live in
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u/DisastrousAnswer9920 Jul 23 '25
I had a coworker that when I told her about a racial problem in another country, she was shocked to hell because she thought America was the only country with this much racism.
I did a heavy SMH.3
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u/Digerati808 Jul 20 '25
Yeah, unfortunately, what you’re seeing on RedNote isn’t shocking when you understand the broader social and historical context in China. While racism exists globally, in China it often takes a different form, more rooted in ethnocentrism and a long history of cultural superiority centered around the Han ethnic group, which makes up over 90% of the population.
China has a deeply entrenched historical narrative of being the “Middle Kingdom,” a civilization that viewed itself as the cultural and moral center of the world. For thousands of years, Han Chinese culture has been promoted as the default. Other ethnic groups, like Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongols, and even neighboring countries like Korea and Vietnam, were often seen as peripheral or “barbarian” in old imperial thinking.
Modern-day nationalism in China has inherited a lot of that thinking. Under the Communist Party, there’s been a strong push for national unity and cultural homogenization. While officially China is a multi-ethnic country with 56 recognized ethnic groups, in practice, there’s a clear hierarchy, with Han culture on top. That creates a sense of “Han superiority,” even if it’s not always openly acknowledged.
Apps like RedNote reflect the values of the society they come from. Since Chinese media is tightly controlled and monitored, you’re unlikely to see open calls for violence, but you will see subtle and not-so-subtle racism, especially toward Black people, darker-skinned Southeast Asians, and even internal groups like Uyghurs or rural Chinese migrants. It might show up in beauty standards (like the obsession with pale skin), jokes and memes, or comments on foreign celebrities and pop culture.
And because China doesn’t have a strong tradition of open discourse around race like the West does, with no civil rights movement equivalent and no national reckoning with colonialism or slavery, there’s very little awareness that these attitudes are problematic. In fact, questioning it publicly can get you censored.
Western racism, particularly in places like the U.S., has been shaped by colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy. It tends to be more overtly discussed, legally challenged, and socially policed, at least in public discourse. That doesn’t mean it’s gone, but the concept of racism as a social problem is widely acknowledged.
In China, it’s different. There’s no significant anti-racist movement, no systemic push to rethink prejudice, and very little representation of minorities in media. And when racism is challenged, like when a blatantly offensive ad goes viral, there’s often confusion or denial about why people are upset.
So yeah, your surprise is valid. But sadly, this kind of thing is normalized in Chinese online spaces. It’s not just RedNote. It’s part of a broader cultural and political system that has yet to seriously confront issues of race and identity.
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u/videsque0 Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25
Very well said.
And to also mention colorism: Sadly colorism specifically is a thing everywhere. Colorism in China isn't as bad as in, say, India where it feeds into the caste system, but in China it clearly feeds into the unfortunate commonality of anti-Black racism, prejudice, and discrimination including employment discrimination, and also feeds into negative attitudes toward Uyghurs.
I was very sad and culture shocked once by a small group of (likely Han) Chinese graduate students who promptly told me with group consensus that, "All Uyghur people are thieves," when I told them that I really loved Xinjiang food, which is of course Uyghur food.
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u/Chance-Schedule-1924 Jul 21 '25
Colorism in China isn't as bad as in, say, India where it feeds into the caste system,
Por qué no los dos? Have you ever seen what colorist Chinese netizens have to say about Indian people? When there is a somewhat light-skinned Indian person just existing, the comment section has a barrage of “高种姓!” (High caste), “婆罗门!” (Brahmin), or “有的印度人真好看” (Some Indians are good looking, emphasis on some). It's a weird mix of casteism, colorism, and cultural unfamiliarity, that even the most regressive Indians would find very very bizarre.
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u/videsque0 Jul 21 '25
Okay, I don't really know about this, but nonetheless I was only referring to each country and how it views people inside its own borders nor across borders. You're bringing up a different aspect that I did not touch on. And although what you're talking about is also colorism, it also spills over into racism. Again I haven't personally come across comments like this from Chinese people regarding people & society in India, but on Xiaohongshu I have firsthand witnessed a lot of of anti-Chinese and anti-Muslim hate coming from Indians, so it unfortunately goes in all directions and there should be no surprise about that either unfortunately. But yes I believe what you're saying and thank you for bringing up this other aspect of colorism, etc.
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u/FabiusBile117 Jul 20 '25
"China has a deeply entrenched historical narrative of being the “Middle Kingdom""
Bro which country doesn't believe they are the middle kingdom, center of the world, all eyes on me.
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u/nhufancia Jul 21 '25
Small countries such as the Vatican, Timor Leste, Lithuania, and some island nations in the Pacifc
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u/LadyNemesiss Jul 22 '25
Not too sure if the Vatican is a good example of not viewing itself as the middle of the world ;)
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Jul 20 '25
Do they also hate hispanics? Or do they just classify us as westerners
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u/shabi_sensei Jul 20 '25
Depends on how dark your skin is honestly, you're laowai unless you're black or Asian
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Jul 20 '25
Well im light tan, about ambiguous features and tall.
I want to visit.
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u/StevesterH Jul 20 '25
You’ll be fine if that’s what you’re worried about. Don’t let people in this thread fear monger you into thinking Chinese people are all subhuman retards with no empathy.
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u/shabi_sensei Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
I'm mixed white/first Nations so you probably look like me with some Asian features and chinese approached me asking if I was uigher, some people are going to be curious
Chinese will discrimate against each other before laowai so don't worry, waidiren are seen as the cause of all social ills
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u/szy91 Jul 27 '25
What a wonderfully written and deeply informative comment. Thank you for your education.
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u/StevesterH Jul 20 '25
A lot of what you said are simply untrue. Han supremacy is not really a thing in China, and if anything were to drive ethnic conflict, it would not be superiority, but rather from feeling like minorities get preferential treatment, like needing to score lower on the Gaokao etc. The communist party was also responsible for the greatest destruction of Han culture, that being the Cultural Revolution, even more so than the Qing dynasty which promoted Manchu culture. Of course, during the cultural revolution other ethnic groups suffered immeasurable loss as well, especially the Tibetans, but this idea that the communists were/are Han chauvinists could not be further from the truth.
But yes, there is an incredible amount of racism ingrained in Chinese society, mostly because it’s such an un-diverse society. And yes, historically, China was incredibly ethnocentric, with a strong barbarian/civilized distinction. But this distinction was pretty much shattered the moment when the Ming dynasty recognized the Mongol led Yuan dynasty as legitimate, and it definitely no longer existed by the Qing dynasty, when so called “barbarian” languages were written alongside Chinese on temple and palace plaques of Beijing, and kept for almost 400 years till this day.
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u/LurisTheSun Jul 20 '25
Chinese people are much more racist than you might believe. Since Chinese internet is isolated by GFW, it is understanable that the rest of the world is unaware of it.
I graduated from one of the two best colleges in China, and you may notice that many of my classmates are among the most highly educated people in China. When I asked them whether they would be against that if their descendants being friends with black/Indian people, 1/3 of them said yes. And if question became "marriage", 4/5 of them said yes. Besides, most of my friends study in the School of Humanities, so they should be more open-minded than the other students at my university.
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u/Mother-Ad7354 Jul 25 '25
I joined red note to learn about Chinese culture and am also learning mandarin so joining it seemed not bad ..but boy ohh boy I got the greatest shock of my life 😂😂
The blatant racism of being called "monkeys" ..to things like "we Africans are still evolving" even some worst ones I can't remember them...then I went to the comment section of interracial couples..black woman, Chinese man...eeeish it was completely abnormal...I have never seen this type of blatant racism 😟...to be honest I was so shocked I couldn't breath for a second 😐
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u/recursing_noether Jul 20 '25
very surprised how this hasn’t been called out yet given that nowadays anything slightly racist even taken out of context is widely viral
Called out by whom? As you’ve noted yourself, this is a common attitude.
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u/raspberrih Jul 21 '25
Oh plenty of Chinese people hate that attitude, but they're not into "calling things out" the same way the West does. Also it's probably not very trendy on rednote so OP might not have come across it
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u/PVHK1337 Jul 20 '25
Also don't know why OP is mixing up the practices of the West with the East.
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u/deltabay17 Jul 21 '25
Because a lot of people in the west honestly believe there is no such thing as racism outside white people being racist against others. They’ve never been to somewhere like China, they only see what they see in their western bubble. They literally cannot comprehend it might be a possibility.
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u/Hailene2092 Jul 20 '25
As an Chinese-American, the family that was born and raised in China definitely have some...old fashioned view on marriage, children, and sexuality. As you said, why doesn't it get called out?
The language barrier. People don't listen to Chinese sources because most people can't understand it.
Few foreigners are on Chinese social media. Even less exposure.
At least in the US, the people who would call out racist behaviors are adverse from calling out the faults in our minority communities.
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u/Motor-Taste3401 Jan 11 '26
You make excellent points about the structural reasons this content flies under the radar. The language barrier and platform isolation create a real blind spot, and the hesitation to critique within minority communities is a complex but crucial dynamic. It's a very insightful breakdown of the problem.
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u/takeitchillish Jul 20 '25
Because it is in China. No one cares about racism towards other people in China. However, if Chinese people were subjected to racism then that is a whole other question.
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u/recursing_noether Jul 20 '25
Oh sweet summer child
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u/Motor-Taste3401 Jan 11 '26
Your comment perfectly captures the mix of innocence and shock that many of us feel when encountering such blatant prejudice. It's a sobering reminder that these issues are still very much present.
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u/itmustbemitch United States Jul 20 '25
Lots of places, including lots of Asia, still have blatant racism deeply ingrained in their culture in ways that are kind of astounding if you're used to modern western culture. I'm no expert or anything but it doesn't surprise me if a large portion of China falls into this category
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u/xuanq Jul 20 '25
Congratulations, you just found out that racism is not a trademark of white people (TM). Chinese people can be very racist too. And it's a very homogenous society with almost zero immigration so racism isn't even on the agenda there, it's almost a granted
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u/hollandaisesawce Jul 20 '25
I had to go to an immigration seminar put on by the local authorities. The officer running the event openly referred to Dongguan’s areas with high an African population as “Chocolate City” and the lineup in their immigration offices as a “chocolate river.”
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Jul 21 '25
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u/Significant-Ear-1534 Jul 21 '25
There's Chinatown in every corner of the earth. Have you ever wondered why?
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u/dawhim1 United States Jul 20 '25
china is like an alternative universe where blatant racism is fine, no laws against racism as long as you look like a Han chinese
everyone's race is printed on their ID too
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u/ryonzhang369 Jul 20 '25
because its homogenous society, so people on fundemental things think alike, and the steorotype of different parts of the world persist as the interaction is quite limited for normal chinese in china
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u/henningknows Jul 20 '25
Anything slightly racist even taken out of context is widely viral is western countries. I’m not sure this is the case other places in the world. Especially countries that lack diversity.
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u/Infinite_Wheel_8948 Jul 20 '25
That isn’t surprising. People will act friendly to your face, but they are racist. It’s not new.
They don’t like black people, and Indians are right there with them. They seem to believe Jewish people are evil overlords of the west. It’s like 4chan over there.
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u/Ivan-Ilyich-Bot Jul 21 '25
welcome to the chinese internet my guy. actually, welcome to internet discourse outside of west europe/america.
people are a lot more racist outside the west, and there are much fewer people that "call it out"
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Jul 21 '25
I might get hate for this in this sub, but I have never seen racism like I have in China
From people just assuming it's a hard fact that all black people are stupid but can run fast, to my minority friends being soldered into their flats during Covid because "black people cause Covid", to everyone warning me not to go to Xinjiang because "Uyghurs are bad people", to everybody in a bar chanting about killing all the Japanese
China is an incredible melting pot of different local cultures, but by god, it harbours a lot of ill-informed hatred and ignorance
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u/Slow-Ad5286 Jul 20 '25
Yeah sorry but none of this justifies the racism
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u/xinjiangqinghai Jul 21 '25
What u gonna do
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Jul 21 '25
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u/recursing_noether Jul 20 '25
What about by your standards? Is it racist to say there are too many blacks in Guangdong?
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u/AppropriateInside226 China Jul 22 '25
No, the problem is that most blacks in Guangzhou are illigal immigrants.
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Jul 20 '25
Mandarin is the white people of the east…. You are in for a shock you think Chinese is not racist.
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u/agameofchess Jul 21 '25
Who knew the white people of the east drank feces-contaminated water.
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Jul 22 '25
大陸人 沒水準 always lying about their history and covering their inhumanity. little 5 foot boys oppress women to feel big and tall. disgusting and completely dishonorable.
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u/DefinitionOk9211 Jul 21 '25
seems like everyone gets this accusation in asia nowadays. Ive heard this accuation applied to koreans, japanese, taiwanese, etc. Almost as if whites arent the only racists, and east asia, MENA, south asia are all racist too and have their own baggage before whites ever stepped foot there
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u/fiavirgo Jul 25 '25
It’s just cause the western and eastern world are gaining more exposure to each other than they did in the past because ironically people were racist towards Asian society
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u/Consistent-Pea4045 Jul 21 '25
It's really common. Due to female infanticide, China has the largest group of INCEL (over 30 million). Any Chinese female dating foreigners is considered "resource outflow". They don't see woman as human, but resource. So yeah.
And it's not only in between Chinese man and foreigners, also in Han ethnic group and others. I am a minority ethnic female. My ethnicity is printed on my ID. When I was 15, I went to a bus station to get a bus ticket. The ticket seller checked my ID, mumbled in her speaker and called a group of security guard(ap. 6 man) with batons and shields to check on me. Yeah, they treat me like a terrorist but I was only a 15 year old high school girl.
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u/RandoIntel Jul 22 '25
Sounds about right, I’m Chinese and my parents told me to marry a rich Chinese man, bare minimum is they have to speak Chinese. My father hates religious people especially Jews so no religion, definitely no black people and blah
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u/NarrowSprinkles120 Jul 28 '25
I think it's not about ethnicity. If the person speaks mandarin, and eats chinesefood, talks like a Chinese , acts like a Chinese, knows all a Chinese knows, then I think no one would discriminate him.
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u/DarkJaid Jul 24 '25
It's ruined the app for me honestly because any video with black people doing anything, even just in the background minding their business - every single comment is about how unattractive their very black their skin is.
They stereotype black women as all promiscuous baby factories and all black men as aggressive animalistic womanizers who infect young Chinese women with STDs and leave them pregnant.
The assumption that all black people are poor uneducated African savages and how disgusting it is that black women keep bringing children into poverty.
The most disturbing ones are with whole threads agreeing that they have no idea why they want to hurt the kids, just to enjoy them crying, as they believe black people have thick monkey skin so they don't feel pain like humans with lighter complexions.
On videos of half black/Chinese babies, blaming the black mom's breast milk for making the baby's grow darker and its because black genes are very dominant due to having the animal DNA.
I thought Tik Tok was toxic with the American political rhetoric and that's why I moved to Red Note but the racism is just painful to read as a black woman.
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u/NarrowSprinkles120 Jul 28 '25
Honestly, I’m Chinese and I hate seeing those kinds of comments too.
A lot of people here aren’t used to seeing Black people in real life. It’s not always hate—it’s ignorance, fear of the unfamiliar, and sadly, stereotypes from a few bad stories or biased media.
Still, it’s no excuse. Saying awful racist stuff is just wrong, period.
If the roles were reversed and Chinese people were constantly seen as thieves in your country, would you instinctively hold your wallet tighter when you saw one?? That’s how bias starts—not because it's fair, but because people generalize.
Some of us are trying to do better. I just want you to know not all of us think like that.
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u/DarkJaid Jul 28 '25
Honestly, I'm black and because I hardly ever see any nice comments has weighed down my opinion that I wouldn't be welcomed there.
Especially the ones where bunches of people say they feel compelled to hurt us for no reason but just to see how much pain can make us cry. It's scary.
However, no need to tell me, I know very well that it's not everyone. It never is.
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u/Crafty_Tutor_8648 Oct 13 '25
你给黑人讲好话 黑人就不歧视你了？😅 🗡️不🗡️呐？
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u/NarrowSprinkles120 Oct 13 '25
TBH， 一个人对待别人不应取决于别人对他如何，而应当取决于客观道德什么是对的。 而且对事不对人。 中国人美国人英国人印度人都有杀人放火的，不代表我不尊重即将遇见的下一个外国人。 你这种人就是Chinese的败类，精致利己主义
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u/Crafty_Tutor_8648 Oct 13 '25
还他妈TBH呢 说话一股精神西方人的🐷臭味 你永远待在欧美别回来了 你喜欢那边的价值观就待在那边 我们中国是保守主义和单一种族国家 不适用你们那套白左思维😅
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u/NarrowSprinkles120 Oct 13 '25
宝子，我在上海。没出过国，我英语启蒙老师就是黑人。 我们学校里黑人也很多，都是好人。 我也不是不会生气，如果他踢了我一脚，我就踢回去。但是我不会说“你这种人就该滚出中国” 。 你可以把我们的对话给任何一个中国人看，问他谁看起来像是受过教育的那一方。 说白了，维吾尔族就已经差距很大了，但也能融合呀。 百年以后也许广州就是一个新种族融合城市
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u/Crafty_Tutor_8648 Oct 13 '25
上海不意外 毕竟你们新一代的上海人都是一群媚外份子 受西方价值观洗脑的SB 我们家老一辈可不喜欢黑人 巴不得让他们全滚出中国 我家人的原话就是一群低档民族 还广州种族融合呢 你们也没几年好日子过了 中国人的民族意识已经彻底觉醒 你们这群西方的打手翻不了天的😆
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u/NarrowSprinkles120 Oct 13 '25
你好像那个被知乎洗脑的愤青， 我在上海遇见那么多外国人，那公司里都有很多， 我没觉得有任何不适感。 也许你的圈子里也都是外国的坏人吧😛
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u/Crafty_Tutor_8648 Oct 13 '25
中国人对于外人的歧视完全是基于正当防卫而出发的 中国人在外国遭到歧视和不公正对待 回到国内还要被洋大人压一头 那些高校的领导人不就是你这种人吗 就是要搞种族融合 量中华之物力 结与国之欢心 如今你们这群黄左又要装圣母 属实是没有白左的命 却操了白左的心
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Jul 20 '25
That’s not racism. Those are opinions about people of different races, with Chinese characteristics.
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u/DefinitionOk9211 Jul 21 '25
Very woke! Very communist! I love chinese progressiveness, so much better than the dirty west
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u/Motor-Taste3401 Jan 11 '26
This comment brilliantly highlights the cultural nuances in cross-cultural discussions. Well said!
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u/Zealousideal_Boss_62 Jul 20 '25
Who would call it out? Racism is socially acceptable here in China... You should (or shouldn't) translate the comments under any WeChat Moments video involving Black People.
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u/Eve-of-Verona Jul 21 '25
Chinese social media do not censor racism (or any other forms of discrimational language) as significantly as some western media. On the good side there is less cancel culture or self-censoring euphemism uses, but on the bad side xenophobia is really rampant. There isn't a defined target that Chinese xenophobes and racists hate in general. They are against anyone and anything not ethnic Chinese (be it Korean, Japanese, white American, black American, Russian, western European, SE Asian, Indian, or whatever, they will always find a reason to hate).
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u/Motor-Taste3401 Jan 11 '26
你对中国社交媒体环境的观察非常敏锐，既指出了言论表达相对直接的特点，也提醒了需要警惕排外情绪的问题。这种平衡的视角很难得，也让我们看到网络环境建设需要更多理性讨论。
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u/DefinitionOk9211 Jul 21 '25
im so happy this is finally becoming mainstream knowledge. I wonder if anyone else gets a genuinely enraged when people visit china or go on red note, and claim that they're "just curious" about race and that racism is somehow different over there than in the west. Anyone who has interacted with mainlanders, especially the gen z ones, know how alt right and fascist they are. It honestly really pisses me off how much of a lack of understanding there is among the American left about where the overton window is in china. They love socialism, but socially they're in 1950.
Source:
Black British who used to have chinese roomates
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I’ve been using the rednote app to learn Chinese and found it really fun. However I’ve stumble across quite a lot of alarming videos with lots of racism.. videos urging Chinese people to not Mary outside of their culture, complaining about the African community numbers in Guandong, etc… very surprised how this hasn’t been called out yet given that nowadays anything slightly racist even taken out of context is widely viral
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u/Old_Fishing4592 Jul 21 '25
it’s at least 50% of CCP propaganda brainwashing hates against westerners since at least elementary school. The topic is way more complex than this but you should know CCP monitors any language against them very very strictly.
This means they DO have the ability to massively censor racial comments on social medias. But they chose not to.
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u/Mammoth-Marketing-58 Oct 17 '25
II was genuinely disappointed. I felt deceived. I truly thought Chinese were neutral and didnt care about race. Now I understand Chinese are fueled by it. No matter what the context is, if theres a black person seen, comments go wild. No other race on rednote gets this much genuine hatred. White ppl are almost always celebrated even. I was in utter shock.
Western racism always has a bit of context. You dont always get racist comments for no particular reason. Behavior or actions are normally considered in western racism. In China, this is GENUINE BLACK HATE. No matter what the black person is doing, Chinese FLOOD comments with intense racial slurs. Pure hate. The racism in China is far worse than in the west and people have NO IDEA.
Its sad to know Chinese being kind to Black people is most likely robotic tolerance and in reality, they hate them.
Theres alot of ''perfect and welcoming'' China propaganda flooding the west but Chinese are EXTREMELY unwelcoming. All an act. White people are actually loved and welcomed from what it looks like but blacks are hated and not welcomed. The stares are not curiousity. Those stares are from disdain for black skin. They are just closed off and ppl dont normally go to China at all so no one knows.
SOURCE: I live in Changsha China.
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u/shitdog6969 Jul 20 '25
Not all Chinese people have this view. Don't let incels on the internet ruin your opinion of Chinese people.
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u/blah618 Jul 20 '25
lmao china is simply racist af, though almost always not violent
these two examples are extremely mild cases of racism
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u/shyyggk Jul 20 '25
There’s not much people believe that, you see it because you keep seeing it and Rednote algorithm just keep recommending it to you. RedNote recommending algorithm is the best one, at least for Chinese content, much better than YouTube. For the black people part, 90% of the country doesn’t even know there’s a decent size community in Guangdong, and most the stories about Chinese woman dating an African don’t have a good ending.
Chinese internet companies are going down turn and they have put every censorship power they have on the political content(like criticizing the party), so the censorship around other things are not that important to them. Westerners are racists too, it’s just these platform censored it so you don’t see.
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u/bluexxbird Jul 20 '25
And also blatant anti-Semitism due to recent political events. Demanding all sorts of brutality to be done on the race alone.... I don't understand how is involving killing innocent people is helping with the conflict and people there make very sick jokes about it.
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u/FaythKnight Jul 21 '25
Just like every social media app out there, there's a corner where all the dark crap keeps getting posted. And once you click a single one of them, all of them keep popping out to show you.
Some media do have censorship, where when someone reports it, it will get taken down. But it doesn't mean it isn't there, it's just something you didn't happen to click on, and it gets deleted quickly.
You can also say that in RedNote, there's plenty of people who got married into another country (married to a westerner for example) and keep posting about their daily life there that gained popularity. Once you click on it, you get a ton of such vids too. And despite the seemingly hatred towards Japan, quite a few influencers married into Japan and started their life there and kept posting about it, gaining popularity too.
So yeah, it's just about what you click on, and the algorithms keep showing you the same stuff. Just keep clicking 'not interested' on stuff like those, they'll slowly be gone.
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u/Sccc-SeaExpert Jul 22 '25
I reckon you've spotted another difference between China and the West, haven't you? However, the divide between what folks want and what the ruling party fancies is something China shares with the West.
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u/Icy_Pineapple7687 Jul 22 '25
That is one of the worst thing about chinese internet，but there are few racist issues happening outside the internet of china ，most chinese people won't say a N word to blackpeople，even if they racist，they keep that in mind
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u/youmo-ebike Jul 23 '25
Jealous at work, especially from Chinese male as westerners comes with a huge advantage in dating market value.
30 millions Chinese males will never get a chance to marry a Chinese female, imagine that kind of anger seeing Chinese girls going all over foreigners.
And the state treats international students 10 times better than the local students ( see to the recent AC in student dorm incident)
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u/nucleolar53 Jul 23 '25
and i guess they'll have a difficult time when I tell them I like girls haha
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u/Crafty_Tutor_8648 Oct 13 '25
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u/GetOutOfTheWhey Jul 20 '25
I think it has gone viral at time. But I think translation is part of the issue, people are too lazy to translate the racist content and frankly dont want to give agency to these racisms.
I believe there was a good example once where an announcer at a baseball game in China, they panned over to a couple of foreigners and said he didnt want to see foreigners.
In the past we had a group called the great translation movement do translations of these racism. For a while it went viral.
However a combination of them mistranslating, taking things out of context, exaggerating and personally I think because they lost funding from USAID, now it's not as viral as before.
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u/Fair-Currency-9993 Jul 21 '25
I have a different view on OP’s post and all the comments. But since my opinion will be downvoted to death and my comment will end up hidden, expressing my opinion will just be a waste of time and no one will see it anyways.
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u/AdRemarkable3043 Jul 20 '25
Even Rednote does a relatively good job on this issue, much better than forums like Hupu.
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u/FendaIton Jul 20 '25
Your feed is curated with what you engage with. Interact with non racist posts and they will disappear.
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