Discrimination tendencies against black africans have not just started in China !This isn’t the first time that racism towards Africans has reared its ugly head in China. In 2017, a photographer, Yu Huiping who is also the chairman of a local construction company, at the Hubei Provincial Museum exhibits facial features of African children and adults next to animals
Reflecting on his visits to Africa,in a photo exhibition titled “This is Africa,” compare the facial features of African children and adults next to animals; and he said. “It’s to remind people that we shouldn’t forget where we come from.”
He told Chinese media ahead of the exhibit’s opening, “I often wonder, how do we build an order and balance the ecology system between human and nature? I think, record, explore, and communicate with the unique perspective and sensitivity of a photographer.”
“It’s not shocking. Africans are not strangers to racism here in China or elsewhere. But it is sad that despite deepening economic connections and interactions between Chinese and Africans, there’s still clearly so much racism and lack of cultural understanding,” says Zahra Baitie, a Ghanaian master’s student at Tsinghua University studying global affairs.
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