Two Wongs don't make a white

gdf   Sat May 22, 2010 1:32 pm GMT
Two Wongs don't make a white is a phrase which means Asian couple don't bear a white child. It's the racial prejudice against Asian people.
gdf   Sat May 22, 2010 1:35 pm GMT
Taipei Times Review:


An immigration policy that lasted well into the 1960's and 1970's in Australia. The gist of the whole deal was that Australia was a pre-dominately Anglo-Saxon nation, and an excess of foreigners would degrade it. This is a good example of how widespread racism was only a few decades ago. How quickly they forget.

The main target of the quota was Southern and Eastern European, as well as Jews and Asians. It placed a very strict quota on the number of entries into Australia, all different by race. The lowest quota was placed on Asians, followed by the Slavs and to a lesser degree the Jews.

When the law was first challenged in the early 1900's, the Prime Minister (I forgot his name) said: "Two Wongs don't make a Wright."* This statement was met with a standing ovation. Racist prick. After the toning down of this law (after World War II) it was quickly erased from memory. In came the flood of refugees and immigrants. It was only completely removed in the 1970's.

This demonstrates how countries that now consider themselves to be free and democratic forget their own past atrocities very quickly. Australia treated the Aborigines like a bunch of animals. America has slavery and Jim Crow laws. Think about that next time you bash China for human rights abuses.
Irony   Sat May 22, 2010 1:56 pm GMT
Good point! Makes hundreds of senseless deaths seem pretty tame in comparison. After all, most Asian countries have laws which are totally equal in regard to foreigners and natives and arent biased at all.....oh....wait.....hang on....
bubbus   Sat May 22, 2010 11:03 pm GMT
<<Australia treated the Aborigines like a bunch of animals. America has slavery and Jim Crow laws. Think about that next time you bash China for human rights abuses. >>

With any luck , China will soon be plagued by policical correctness, just like the West is now.
crunch   Sat May 22, 2010 11:26 pm GMT
<<Two Wongs don't make a white is a phrase which means Asian couple don't bear a white child. It's the racial prejudice against Asian people. >>


No, it doesn't mean that. It means two Asians are not worth one white person. Indeed it is true, the ratio is in fact much more slanted. A billion Chinese aren't worth one medium-sized white European country.
bamboo   Sun May 23, 2010 2:37 pm GMT
Yup, it makes sense that two Taiwanese are Not worth one white person. So,they like to suck white guys' dick even though their boys do like it.
Mr Wong   Sun May 23, 2010 3:37 pm GMT
Australia will soon be Chinese and then we'll see how well the Wongs will fare against the Whines ...