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Why are Koreans depicted as sticks in the Chinese propaganda cartoon Year Hare Affair?

 

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Why are Koreans depicted as sticks in the Chinese propaganda cartoon Year Hare Affair?

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They look like either sticks, straws, or macaroni tubes. So what are the reasons for Koreans to be depicted that way?

 

 

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[–]DanoctIncheon 11 points  

Sticks. A very old slur in Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaoli_bangzi

[–]TopEntertainment5304 4 points  

This is a very stupid CCP propaganda cartoon. But the reason Koreans are portrayed as sticks is that during World War II, Koreans in the Japanese army were used to maintain law and order in the occupied areas, but because the Japanese army did not trust Koreans, they only gave Koreans sticks to maintain local law and order.

[–]DanoctIncheon 2 points  

The use of the term predates WWII by over 200 years.

[–]pomirobotics 4 points  

You are talking about CCP propaganda but it seems you are spreading misinformation. You can find 高麗棒子(Gaoli Bangzi) as a 'nickname' for Koreans in Qing and Joseon records such as 皇淸職貢圖 and 湛軒書 from the 18th C.

[–]TopEntertainment5304 3 points  

Wikipedia states that there are two possible sources for this term. One is the 高麗棒子 you mentioned, and the other is the World War II source I mentioned.

[–]pomirobotics 1 point  

The one I mentioned predates the other by a couple of centuries, and the meaning was exactly like an ethnic nickname or slur. What is the WW2 'source'? Where is it recorded?

[–]TopEntertainment5304 1 point  

besides the 幫子nickname only known in north china before ww2

[–]Fast_Lock_202 0 points  

I don't know what kind of Chinese cartoon it is, but looking at the content, I thought that since it was a cartoon drawn by a Chinese person, the content was written from a Chinese perspective. I think that China's rescue of North Korea during the war was a foolish thing to do from the current perspective.

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