Why are the chinese so xenophobic?

Question

Why are the chinese so xenophobic?

Answer 1

Whatever makes you think that?  Have you lived in China?  I have, for three years.  At no point had I seen foreigners treated with less than courteous manner.  Looks like you are the one with the case of Sinophobia.

If you were not a troll, you would actually try to list the examples to justify your inflammatory question.  But clearly you can only yap without substance.

Edit:

And I just found out that all the questions you posted were all related to China.  What's the matter?  Sore loser?

Answer 2

Mable the same reason "some" crybaby foreigners take a question about Chinese and use it to attack American.

Pathetic foreigners.

Answer 3

Because the world turned their back on them first.

The American Naturalization act of 1870 was drafted to keep the Chinese out of America.

The White Australia Policy was drafted to keep the Chinese out of Australia.

Between 1839 and 1842 the English declared war and slaughtered the Chinese - not because they were a threat, but because they asked that England stop trafficking Opium through their borders. The treaty they were then subjected to basically gave the British free reign throughout china and caused several trade agreeements designed to take advantage of the chinese.

If they are xenophobic, then they have a very good reason. Historically they have been treated as second class citizens the world over. They have good reason to want nothing to do with the lot of us!

Answer 4

The correct question is....why wouldn't they???

Obviously you didn’t pass your world history class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Natio...

The Eight-Nation Alliance was an alliance of 8 nations (Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) which put down the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. The troops looted the capital and thousands of citizens died during the campaign.

Why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium...

The First Opium War or the First Anglo-Chinese War was fought between the British East India Company and the Qing Dynasty in China from 1839 to 1842 with the aim of forcing China to import British opium.

Why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opiu...

The Second Opium War, France, UK, Russia, and the United States were the parties involved against China from 1856 to 1860.  

Why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_Tre...

Unequal Treaties is a term used in reference to the type of treaties signed by several East Asian states, including Qing Dynasty China, late Tokugawa Japan, and late Joseon Korea, with Western powers including Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan, during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This was a period during which these Asian states were largely unable to resist the military and economic pressures from foreign powers. The Chinese started referring to the 19th century 'peace treaties' as "Unequal Treaties" during the 1920s, as growing Chinese nationalism began to consolidate.

Here are just a SHORT LIST of those treaties China signed after many wars fought in the late 19th and early 20th centry.  

Again, Why?

by English name/Chinese name of Treaty /Year/ Imposer

Treaty of Nanking 南京條約 1842 United Kingdom

Treaty of the Bogue 虎門條約 1843 United Kingdom

Treaty of Wanghs'ia 中美望廈條約 1844 United States

Treaty of Whampoa 黃埔條約 1844 France

Treaty of Aigun 璦琿條約 1858 Russia

Treaty of Tientsin 天津條約 1858 France, United Kingdom, Russia, United States

Convention of Peking 北京條約 1860 United Kingdom, France, Russia

Treaty of Tientsin 1861 Prussia, German Customs Union

Chefoo Convention 煙台條約 1876 United Kingdom

Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking 中葡北京條約 1887 Portugal

Treaty of Shimonoseki (Treaty of Maguan) 馬關條約 1895 Japan

Li-Lobanov Treaty 1896 Russia

Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory 展拓香港界址專條 1898 United Kingdom

Boxer Protocol 辛丑條約 1901 U.K., U.S., Japan, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands

Twenty-One Demands 二十一條 1915 Japan



The main idea is....China did not ask for any of those wars. Those wars were bought to them. (That's not counting the world war 1 and world war 2...........If that's the history you have to learn about your country.  You would be xenophobic too.

Answer 5

Rubbish, they are not xenophobic.

What a rediculous thing to say.

Answer 6

look at all the hostility toward china, can you blame them?  

Answer 7

ugly people tend to shun the outside world.

Answer 8

Probably for the same reason, that the Americans are homophobic

Answer 9

Stop being a racist,why are you picking on the Chinese?.Is it because they are kicking azz at the Olympics?.

Answer 10

I think you mixed up with the question.  Americans are xenophobic.

Answer 11

No, they are not. Many Chinese don't like American because USA are  picking on them for years. Some of the picking are true but most of them are false accusations. American image is not very good internationally because they are always bullying around. I have some Aussie chef friends told me they hate American tourists the most because they are picky, don't like to tip and always think that they are number 1 and deserve special attention.

Chinese also don't like Japanese because they killed millions of Chinese during the invasion in WWII

Other than these 2 countries, I don't think Chinese have any problem with the rest of the world.

Answer 12

Bush makes you think so~~ ?? cool~

Answer 13

China has had a history of being xenophobic, but they're well past that now. China recognizes that it needs the outside world to survive. It's America that's now Sinophobic.

Answer 14

Why are YOU Sinophobic?

Answer 15

There are far more anti China comments in the media and on yahoo answers than anti-US ones. Who's the xenophobic one?

Answer 16

Maybe the same reason Spain and Argentina are so racist towards the Chinese.

Answer 17

I don't find them to be that afraid of strangers. They are probably just focused on their event so much that they disregard who and what is around them. Maybe that's why they are leading in the gold medals?