Asian supremacy is a racist ideology that holds that the Asian race is superior to other races in all respects, especially intellect, beauty, and culture, and holds Asian racial purity to be an ideal and disapprove racial mixing with non-Asians. It therefore has the same implications as white supremacy or black supremacy.

What group is deemed "Asian" in the view of Asian supremacists is inconsistent. Depending on the context in which it is used, it could only mean a smaller section of the Asians than normally understood, because of the physiological and cultural differences between the different Asian nations. Referencing Goldsea and the song "Got Rice?", it is understood to be East Asians in some contexts. In other contexts, it is understood to be South Asian. For example, the BJP is a Hindu nationalist party which praises the long history of India and its religions.

Asian Supremacist Beliefs

Asian supremacists believe Asians are more intelligent than other races, citing examples such as advanced Japanese technological production, Chinese civilization and intelligence tests, which variously place Asians, particlarly East Asians, at the top in terms of IQ. Asian supremacists believe either genetics or culture cause the high IQ.

Examples of Asian Supremacist Media

The East Asian supremacist website Goldsea has two articles about how East Asians are better looking than whites. This website also adheres to the belief that East Asian food is more healthful than food eaten in the United States. This organization rejects people whose East Asian ancestry is not pure, similar to white supremacist groups, and the organization wants a limitation on the numbers of non-Asian men having interracial relationships with East Asian women. Asian supremacists consider race mixing with non-East-Asian races to be disgusting and ruinous to East Asian racial purity.

The East and Southeast Asian supremacist song "Got Rice?" promotes violence and criminality and demeans whites. Its lyrics include the phrase "we kill y'all fools," and says Southeast and East Asians "break the rules" and "raid and corrupt the schools." It claims "we [Asians are] the best," says whites are inferior to Asians in their "thoughts," "food," "luck," and "cats," and questions whether or not whites have "cars," "clothes," "skills," and "girls" equal in value to those of East and Southeast Asians.

Criticism of the Concept

White Race Origins

Critics believe the concept of Asian supremacy has its origins from White racism. It largely was started by adopted Asians who were raised by white parents, and had no other means of finding an identity for themselves and their anger directed at negative Hollywood portrayals of Asians and an extreme overrepresentation of white male and asian female couples while showing no Asian male-Asian female or Asian male and white female couples in return.

Criticism of Got Rice? Being Racist

From another viewpoint, the song Got Rice? shows the extensive psychological damage of being stereotyped as being weak and gullible through the centuries of Asian countries being imperialized and colonized by Western nations and from being lynched during the Yellow Peril movement of the 18th and 19th century in America. Many people argue that Yellow Peril exists today. This song is largely a reaction to Hollywood and their over emphasis on portrayals of William Hung and Bai Ling in the American media as the standard of what a Asian person should act like, and is a continuing legacy of Richard Aoki role as a founding father in the Black Panthers, and the resulting awareness of Asian American identity, and has nothing to do with Asian Supremacy.

The phrase "Got Rice?" was initially intended as a parody of the "Got Milk?" commercials which initially aired in 1993. <!--The humor is derived from the fact that Asians are considerably more lactose-intolerant than non-Asians, whereas rice is considered the staple food of Asian culture. Hence, the phrase, as well as the rap song in reaction to the Yellow Peril movement, became a stage for the cultural clash between East and West: on the level of rice versus milk. -->

Criticism of High IQ

Some critics believe only adopted Asians believe Asians naturally have high IQ. These critics believe Asians have high IQ due to cultural reasons. They believe the only Asians who attributed high IQ to genetics are adopted.

See also

Pan-Asianism

Asian racial discrimination

Asian pride

Asian power

Chinese nationalism

Indian nationalism

Japanese nationalism

Goldsea Asian American Daily

References

External links

"Yokoyama Taikan: An Artist Remembered", proponent of Asia