yellow perils

A form of yellow peril — The alleged threat to Western nations by East Asians, especially Chinese or Japanese people, due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluraluncommonplural of yellow peril

    Thus two Yellow Perils are flashed upon the screen: the Yellow Peril directed by the native Government, and that taken under control by the Powers, or some of them, to their ultimate bedevilment.

    1900 December, Lloyd Sanders, “The Yellow Perils”, in The Anglo-Saxon Review, volume VII, page 102
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