three races, one perfect?

On a recent visit to China Pippen spoke to an educated Chinese gentleman who, being quite aware of the western belief that we all originated in Africa, steadfastly held to a belief that there were three races and that the Chinese are the superior race.

"I gained a very strong impression that the Chinese consider themselves to be different in a superior way from the other races on earth," says Pippen. "One Chinese gentleman actually told me that originally there were three races -- white, black and yellow -- and all were baked like bread. The white race was undercooked, the black race overcooked and the yellow race was perfect."

"Most Chinese do not believe that they, like everyone else on earth, originated in Africa," says Pippen. "Instead, they believe that they originated independently in the land of China, with the Peking Man of Zhoukoudian representing a phase in their unique evolution."

“He believed that the white race also originated independently in Europe,” says Pippen, “and that only the black race came from Africa.”

“With more and more Chinese emigrating to the west,” says Pippen, “I do hope they don’t bring their ‘superior’ racial beliefs with them because we have enough of our own, thank you very much!”

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America first settled by Chinese

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America first settled by Chinese

Pippen points out that new research in China is showing not only that the Chinese have cultural roots going back more than a million years, but also that they have a civilization of at least ten thousand years – pre-dating the traditional period of five thousand years which was responsible for a massive migration of Chinese to the Americas.

"The Chinese assert that their nation is far superior and far older than others,” says Pippen. “"Their civilization -- not that of Sumer or Egypt -- was the first and that during the thriving and prosperous Tang Dynasty it was at the peak of the world, the center of world civilization, no other civilization compared to it."

“They claim that during their long history their people were the first migrants -- migrating throughout the Americas and the regions along the Pacific Rim -- becoming the Indian tribes in the Americas and the East Asian ethnic groups in the South Pacific."

“Looking at these people today in those areas,” says Pippen, “it is easy to see these ancient resemblances.”


Read more by Pippen on China:

Old and New China

the miraculous Chinese

three races, one perfect?

the wealthy Chinese exodus

fat figures of fun in China

alienated in China

China's Ancient Roots