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yellow peril
noun
- (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.
yellow peril
noun
- the power or alleged power of Asiatic peoples, esp the Chinese, to threaten or destroy the supremacy of White or Western civilization
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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Word History and Origins
Origin of yellow peril1
Example Sentences
I swallowed H.S. Tsien's deportation and Cold War paranoia and Joe McCarthy and the Yellow Peril and the coming war with China.
I held my nose and I ate Jack London and the Yellow Peril and the coming war with China.
Brzezinski is by no means an alarmist of the “yellow-peril” strain in American history.
Truly would he of himself constitute the much-heralded Yellow Peril were it not for his present management.
To-day, far more voices are engaged in denying the yellow peril than in prophesying it.
You're discussing my father, whereas I desire to discuss the Yellow Peril.
The Yellow Peril alarmists may rest assured, for, according to the author, Japan must die a natural death.
The yellow peril alarmists began to talk about Japan as being intent upon seizing Indo-China.
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