Fearing the “Yellow Peril”

The Yellow Peril was a belief that arose in the 19^th century, it represented the Japanese and Chinese workers that were migrating to the United States. The term yellow at the time was used to describe the color of East Asians, which later on became to be very derogatory.
For many years there was a belief that sought out to hunt many people and it was known as the “Yellow Peril”. It was the idea that the Orientals from Asia would expand their walls by conquering every other territory.


Yellow Peril as much anymore, regardless “The threat of Oriental hordes swarming west and engulfing 'civilized' societies was a widely held fear in the late 19th/early 20th centuries” (www.ThePhraseFinder.com). Yet nowadays the term and the stereotype have seemingly faded but not forgotten.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Yellow Peril cartoon above Shows

a man conquering a place and the people running from fear;

it was a picture

magazine made specifically to show the intensions

of what the Yellow Peril would be with Asians.

  

 



http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/yellow-peril.html

Many decades ago there was an undesirable event the lead into the right direction just when the Yellow Peril was born. The event known as the Yellow Fever which at one point was recognized as the American plague. This was " An outbreak of the disease was reported in October 1878" (www.ThePhraseFinder.com). On the other hand this was only a small issue that grew into more terror the Americans

The Yellow Fever came to an end but nearly a few years later “THE YELLOW TERROR OF ORIENTAL WARS - GEN. YEH OF THE IMPERIAL CHINESE ARMY.
He Is the Wellington of the Flowery Kingdom - His Field Tactics, However, Resemble Those of the Corsican Conqueror of Europe, and Ought To Be Successful" (www.ThePhraseFinder.com)

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/yellow-peril.html

 

The wars were very brutal a lot of blood was shed and many men lost their lives in battle. Out the Asian nations China became victorious.

Yet after the Yellow Terror and the rise of the Chinese army, many Americans feared they would come to the Americas and so they used the term Yellow in a derogatory way.

 The yellow simply applied to the color of the Asian skin.
The cartoon shows Asian men that display a negative association with war.