yellow peril
(in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.
the Asian peoples regarded as presenting such a danger.
Origin of yellow peril
1- Also called yellow terror .
usage note For yellow peril
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How to use yellow peril in a sentence
I swallowed H.S. Tsien's deportation and Cold War paranoia and Joe McCarthy and the yellow peril and the coming war with China.
Men Without a Country: Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, My Father and Me | Arthur Chu | August 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI held my nose and I ate Jack London and the yellow peril and the coming war with China.
Men Without a Country: Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, My Father and Me | Arthur Chu | August 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBrzezinski is by no means an alarmist of the “yellow-peril” strain in American history.
Does America Still Matter? Zbigniew Brzezinski’s ‘Strategic Vision’ | Harold Evans | July 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTruly would he of himself constitute the much-heralded yellow peril were it not for his present management.
Revolution and Other Essays | Jack LondonTo-day, far more voices are engaged in denying the yellow peril than in prophesying it.
Revolution and Other Essays | Jack London
You're discussing my father, whereas I desire to discuss the yellow peril.
The Pride of Palomar | Peter B. KyneThe yellow peril alarmists may rest assured, for, according to the author, Japan must die a natural death.
A Fantasy of Far Japan | Baron Kencho SuyematsuThe yellow peril alarmists began to talk about Japan as being intent upon seizing Indo-China.
A Fantasy of Far Japan | Baron Kencho Suyematsu
British Dictionary definitions for yellow peril
the power or alleged power of Asiatic peoples, esp the Chinese, to threaten or destroy the supremacy of White or Western civilization
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Cultural definitions for Yellow Peril
A supposed threat to the United States posed by Japan and China. The phrase arose in the late nineteenth century, at a time when Japanese and Chinese immigration to America was meeting resistance and when Japan was growing as a military power. (See internment of Japanese Americans.)
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