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Yellow Peril
Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a racist phrase that originated in the late nineteenth century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States. The term, a color metaphor for race, refers to the skin color of East Asians, and the xenophobia that the mass immigration of Asians threatened white wages, standards of living and indeed, Western civilization itself.
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