Is every black youngster going to rob you, no, are most street robberies committed by black youths, yes.
Are all white middle aged men pedophiles, no, do most pedophiles tend to be white middle aged men, yes.

Want to prevent your chance of either happening, don't go walking through a council estate with a load of black youths hanging about on a street corner also don't take sweets from a white middle aged man.

Is this racist, who cares aslong as it decreases the chances of either happening.

It is racist, by definition. However, the context of what is being said, about whom, and who holds the power in such a scenario is stripped away if we look at things from a purely 'black and white' (no pun intended) perspective.

Edited by Palace Hero (09 Sep 2016 6.49am)

Racism is a legal term made up primarily to protect minorities from persecution. It has also of course become a self serving phrase to excuse all number of misdemeanors and promote minority objectives.
It is hard to take the term seriously for me since there is no such thing as "race" as we have previously discussed on here. No white race, no black race, certainly no Jewish race, not even a human race.

Accepting it's inaccuracy. Making a statement of fact cannot ever be "racist" and ignoring reality for political purposes is just plain stupid. That is the world we live in. Minority rights seem more important than the majority and the truth is suppressed for political reasons.
Should we uphold minority rights? Most certainly. Should we do so to the detriment of the majority? Definitely not.
There is an agenda here folks and it has nothing to do with human rights. Only the rich getting richer.

Yes this is racist - thats an easy question.

The real question should be "why would the Chinese think and write this?".

Calling someone a racist in China, although a big deal, doesn't really hold the same meaning or gravity as it does in the West.

While many in the West will happily dish out the phrase 'you're a racist' to anyone who dares to disagree with practically any left wing view on immigration and multiculturalism, in China, calling someone a racist is quite a rare thing to happen. Although obviously a bad thing to be associated with, it's bad for other reasons and so the ways it's used is different.

Speak to any Chinese person living in the West and they will tell you they have long been the victims of racism, they'd be right, Chinese and other Asian groups have in the past been exploited, colonised, degraded and treated badly by other groups of people. When encountering racism in Western countries, most Chinese people will just think "oh what a complete idiot that person / organisation is - they clearly need more education". Unlike a westerner who'd probably feel the need to contact their local newspaper / MP and whinge about the whole issue on social media.

Couple the idea of 'racism is bad but i'll get over it' with how forthright many Chinese people are and just how susceptible they are what they see on the media and through in some ignorance plus the fact that China is a 'non-immigration country' and you have a perfect recipe for what many people in the West would regard as racism. When in reality, well educated Chinese people would just say, the statement that 'Indian, pakistani and Black areas are dangerous is probably inaccurate. This information should be changed to make it more accurate'

A clear example of this can be found in this advert released here in China a few months ago:

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When this advert was launched, literally none of the media outlets, nor Chinese social media gave a damn. Every Chinese person I showed this to just said 'it's a silly advert, this washing tablet clearly won't be able to make someones racial ethnicity change'.

It wasn't until the Western media and the likes of twitter and Facebook caught on, and the company started receiving floods of angry messages from people outside of China saying how terribly racist the advert was that the company withdrew it and gave a really half-arsed apology which essentially was implying Westerners should 'get over themselves'.

So yes, to answer some questions, 'The Wings of China' magazine did say something quite racist. Chinese people probably know it's racist, and no. They probably don't awfully care as there are lots of places in London with high black populations which are dangerous (not because the people are black, but because black people proportionally are more likely to be living closer to the poverty line, and poor areas tend to be more dangerous). So most Chinese tourists don't care that the advice is wrong on a technicality, as long as it's trying to help people avoid the less safer areas of London.

Thanks for reading!

Edited by snytaxx (09 Sep 2016 3.59pm)

An interesting and well written post.