It is pointed out that racist videos of Chinese people making African stories generate profits of tens of billions of yen
It has been reported that videos that make Africans speak Chinese and make them sexually targeted have become popular in some Chinese communities, building an economies of tens of billions of yen. .. One of the contributors speculated that the reason for the revitalization of the community was 'Chinese people like to see how other countries are inferior to China.'
Racist videos about Africans fuel a multimillion-dollar e-commerce industry on China's TikTok --Rest of World
Cheng Wei, who works under the pseudonym 'African Mr. Hello,' has nearly 10 million followers on various platforms in China, and has a single live broadcast of $ 22,000. ) It seems that he has sold nearby goods. Wei's main content is 'African Life,' filming locals, food, markets, videos, delivering food to poor old people, and helping build wooden huts for old people. He said he made a lot of videos to do.
'I believe my activities are saving Africans from poverty. I give them a new life and they lead me to success,' Wei told the news site Rest of World. He said, 'This is a mutual relationship.' He emphasizes that he is supporting the local people through distribution activities.
There are other Chinese who are active in Africa like Mr. Wei, who often insist on support in Africa. However, experts say that the activities of such persons are essentially 'monetizing racial inequality.' Sheng Zou, who specializes in Chinese digital media at the University of Michigan, said, 'Creators are between themselves as modern beings and Africans as some inferior, backward pre-modern beings. We are trying to establish some kind of contrast. '
Rest of World claims that 'in China, racist nationalism has emerged over the last few decades in the framework of the pride of the Communist Party as a member of the Chinese state and the opposition to Western hegemony.' .. Kun Huang, a researcher at Cornell University who specializes in racial issues in Chinese culture, said, 'The image of a Chinese man in power in Africa wants to see his country influence other countries, not Western countries. I think that the desire is well produced. '
Although the Chinese government has shown an attitude to deal with racially discriminatory videos, it has been pointed out that it 'reacts only when there is public anger'. When it was revealed in June 2022 that Malawi's Chinese video producer Lu Ke had physically abused at least one child, the Chinese government used the word 'Africa' on social networks such as Douyin and WeChat. Almost all of the top influencers were forced to stop live distribution because they censored the accounts that included them so that they could not be searched. However, such a positive response was 'only when it caused a backlash in Africa, an economically and diplomatically important partner,' said Emanuel Matambo of the Center for African-Chinese Studies at the University of Johannesburg.
Wei told the Rest of World, 'Chinese people like to see that other places aren't as good as China. If you shoot something advanced here, people might not want to see it. No, they want to see a worse life than they do. '
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