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Yellow peril

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The alleged threat to Western nations by East Asians, especially Chinese or Japanese people, due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West. derogatory, historical, offensive

    "Perhaps the German Emperor is the only man who really believes in the “Yellow Peril,” and what is this “Yellow Peril”? The thought that the Japanese will get control of 500,000,000 Chinamen, arm them, and kill off the white men is so absurd that a child would laugh at it."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of yellow peril. alt-of
  3. 3
    the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples wordnet
  4. 4
    East Asian nations or peoples, conceived as threatening. derogatory, historical, offensive

    "It was such a journey as I had taken once before, early in our pursuit of the genius of the Yellow Peril; but this was infinitely more terrible; for now we were utterly in Fu-Manchu’s power."

Etymology

Of yellow + peril, modeled on earlier French péril jaune. Compare yellow as a racist term for East Asian people. Attested in English from the 1890s. The French cognate is attested from the 1880s.

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