To accuse the West of insulting China with "squinting eyes" means to look down on squinting?
To understand this problem, we might as well make an analogy with "black people picking cotton".
People see "black people picking cotton" as a discriminatory symbol, not because people look down on the work of picking cotton, but because a large number of black people are trafficked to the southern United States to pick cotton day and night.
In the same way, we dislike Western countries using "squinted eyes" to symbolize Chinese people. It is by no means that we dislike the appearance of squinting eyes, but that the West uses this appearance to construct the historical origin of the symbol of insult to China. And cognitive habits.
We know that whether it is big eyes or squinted eyes, it is just a ring of fat, thin, radish and green vegetables.
But we should also know that Western society uses "squinting" as a tool to construct stereotypes of Chinese people and even signs of insulting China, which can be traced back one hundred years ago.
Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】