Way that are Dark; This Thread will show you the true nature of the Chinaman [Sensitivecels stay out]

[Griffith]

Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China is a 1933 non-fiction book by Ralph Townsend which presented his observations on the state of then-contemporary China. Townsend served as a US consul in Shanghai and Fuzhou between 1931 and 1933. (The full book: https://thekbh.org/waysdark.htm)


The true nature of the Chinese, a constant contrast of virtues

The Chinese inherently love civic tranquility, and yet historically and at the present time they are among the bloodiest and mass turbulent of nations. Their language is chock full of proverbs about peace and good will, and yet a short walk through any national Chinese street will reveal more family rows, angry bickerings over trifles and more general quarreling than anywhere else in the world. No other people approach them in their exalted veneration for learning, and yet at all times only a microscopic few could so much as read and write, while probably not one in forty can do so today. They are famed for their prudence in money matters? Yet their love of gambling amounts to such an insane passion that every year millions are ruined to become beggars or suicides. The achieved certain principles of democracy long before any Western country, yet nowhere has tyranny been traditionally so fierce and oppressive, nor is it today anywhere else so outrageously cruel. They are the least warlike of nations, yet the constant bloodshed through the centuries in China appalls the historians, and today has probably more soldiers under arms than all the rest of the world combined. They are among the most ingenious of peoples in making the most out of their natural resources, yet tens of millions never get enough to eat.

Of the differences we see between various races, this absence of physical courage in the Chinese is perhaps a characteristic instinctively repellent to Anglo-Saxons. It is coupled, of course, with Chinese distaste for any kind of vigorous physical endeavor. No one ever saw or heard of a typical Chinese engaging in any sort of sport requiring activity. They are the one large group of the world's population having absolutely no traditions of physical contests for the mere exhilaration of feeling the play of muscles in friendly rivalry. Almost every veteran foreigner in contact with native Chinese has been asked in bewilderment why he plays tennis, or why he rides a horse without appearing to go to any definite destination. A frequent query is, "Why don't you hire coolies to bat the ball around and sit down and watch?" With the tens of thousands of Chinese men in foreign schools equipped with gymnasiums and often with physical education directors, it is interesting that there are no Chinese athletes. And even among the Chinese adopted and brought up in foreign families, reluctance to exercise appears strong. Those slant-eyed, yellow-faced tennis players you see on American campuses are nearly always Japanese, not Chinese. Efforts are being made in foreign or foreignized schools in China to introduce outdoor sports, but anyone watching the results can see that it is something mightily against the grain.

Just as all creatures wage the battle of life with the best weapons given them by nature, the Chinese wage theirs with their foremost weapon - acting. They have no talent for warfare. They are not inventive. They cannot compete in industrial organization. They are at heart seemingly immune to the loyalties by which national unity might be achieved to give them greater strength. Thus about all that is left to them protectively is their remarkable ability to detect the emotional susceptibilities of opponents, and to attack these with the display best calculated to achieve the desired results. The display may be designed to induce sympathy, to mollify anger, to inspire generosity, or to flatter conceit.

Morality (Or lack of)

Anywhere and at almost any time in China, you can see a cart fallen on a man or a horse, or some similar accident, plentiful in the crowded streets, with curious onlookers not stirring a hand to lift the injured out of his predicament. This indifference to fellow suffering seems by all evidence to be distinctly Oriental.

In much of China - perhaps all of it, I am not personally sure - Chinese traveling in small passenger boats up and down the rivers commonly travel two together. The reason is that if one becomes ill while traveling alone, the captain or boat owner of the Chinese raft will at once toss him off and abandon him on the superstition that if he should die on board the event might bring bad luck to the boat. Hence a passenger will take a relative or a trusted friend, or a friend he hopes he can trust, by way of a safeguard, to intervene and perhaps save his life should sudden illness develop.

But going back to the subject of Chinese cruelty, overwhelmingly evident every day everywhere in the country, a few samples of regular practices are illustrative. For instance, a man who falls overboard from a boat not manned by members of his family or close associates need not expect to be picked up. Falling overboard, it may be mentioned, is not an infrequent occurrence among Chinese, who are naturally careless. Almost any veteran foreigner who has traveled up and down the rivers of China will be able to recount one or more cases where he has personally observed a man drown without efforts to save him by other Chinese a few feet away on shore or in a boat.

An American Consul related to me a personally witnessed occurrence at a place up the Yangtze where he was stationed, one that strikes a Westerner as incredible, but which would not impress a native Chinese as anything remarkable. It happened that a sampan loaded down with a cargo of live pigs, and crowded also with Chinese, was caught in a treacherous current and overturned a little distance from the shore. The Chinese and pigs aboard were spilled out into the water. A number of other Chinese along the shore, seeing the upset, immediately put out to the scene in their own boats, and began greedily picking up the live pigs swimming about. The drowning and pleading humans who wailed to be taken aboard were knocked on the head as fast as they swam to the arriving boats, and were all washed downstream and drowned. The Chinese minute men of the sampans returned in high glee with their unexpected catch of fresh pork, and life went on as usual.

The Chinese and Warfare

It is rare in present Chinese strife for a victorious army to pursue a defeated foe vigorously. Advancing into conquered territory both the officers and the troops tend to eat and rape their way into a lazy lassitude. And then there seems to operate a really characteristic instinct against pushing anything to termination. Chinese dread finality. They prefer to keep matters dangling, with definitive action eternally postponed. The strategy of settling things by striking while the iron is hot, so to speak, never seems to enter into their military calculations. Hence it is common for an army to set out against another with all sorts of ballyhoo about intended annihilation, yet when the two armies clash along the skirmish line, both will lapse into a torpid poise, and remain face to face for months with nothing happening. The soldiers of each army will fraternize with the other, with many desertions across the lines both ways.

The Chinese and Money

And when it comes to money we should recognize that the Chinese are as hard as rocks. The gracious manner that Americans associate with generosity is often conspicuous in the Chinese, and as hosts they are generous in their hospitality. But as for generosity of attitude toward money in the sense of subordinating it to anything else, the Chinese are out of our ken altogether. The evidences of this are abundant. For example, at a Chinese wedding there is always a bookkeeper at the door to take presents. He enters in a book the amount of the guest's present, if it is cash, or an exact itemization and appraisal of it if it is in goods. A "spotter," something like those employed in certain American quick lunch restaurants, roams nearby to make note of anybody who squeezes in without giving anything, in case the throng is too great for the bookkeeper to do the spotting. This system is intended to measure the exact degree of obligation incurred by the family toward all comers. Should one of the guests later have a wedding in his own house, he will get a present of exactly the same value as he gave, not a penny more. To an American it sounds jarring to hear "Five dollars" or "Ten dollars" called aloud as his envelope of red tissue paper is torn open and the amount swiftly counted as he passes inside to accept the hospitality tendered in phrases of elaborate humility upon the invitation he has received. This system is a very sinuous, graceful Chinese way of "facing" the guest into giving a fair sum. It is a first-rate device particularly with the Chinese, who are keenly sensitive to public criticism. No one wants to hear a miserably small sum called after his name within hearing of all the other guests.

Architecture, Tl; Bland, no creativity, no safety standards

A sort of moldy desolation, withal surrounded by animation, stares at you everywhere in China. In spite of their industry, in the sense of always puttering about, the Chinese are without doubt the most slipshod people on earth. The common huts are always about to fall to pieces, a not infrequent occurrence. Their roofs leak, and the mud walls are usually cracked and partly knocked to pieces. Mending anything before the imminent danger of its falling upon his head, or upon his livestock (a more important concern), would be unthinkable to a Chinese. Even the premises of the well-to-do are almost invariably in an advanced state of disrepair, though the family has an abundance of money for luxuries. Many tourists who have fed their knowledge on vague ideas of Eastern splendors have failed to delimit the geographical applications, and expect to find in China the sort of man-made glories that belong to India. China has no temples to compare with those to be seen elsewhere in the Orient. The pagodas are a little better, but most of them are crumbly affairs, with no stonework or decoration of any special quality. They are simply towers in the Chinese manner.

The blending of intricacy with magnitude, as seen in India and North Africa, is nowhere in China satisfactorily evident. Their best structure, as a spectacle of art, would not rank fourth place compared to what India produced in the seventeenth century, or Europe before or after the Renaissance, or the Ottoman Empire before its final decline. The average Chinese temple, a mangy affair with low roof and wooden beams, has no art about it to speak of, and inside and out is less impressive than an ordinary chop suey joint. The walls of Peiping, built by conquerors of the Chinese, make a profound impression for somber, square-faced immensity.

@LookistWorld

 

[Deleted member 4804]

Dn read and fuk u griffith

 

[Griffith]

Dn read and fuk u griffithView attachment 253083

It took a while to gather excerpts and highlight the most interesting parts of the book, it really explains the nature and behavior of these yellow creatures.

 

[Deleted member 4804]

K i did read some shit, and its basically how china is today. I really hope china dies

 

[Mousei]

It took a while to gather excerpts and highlight the most interesting parts of the book, it really explains the nature and behavior of these yellow creatures.

I will react for high effort.

 

[Griffith]

K i did read some shit, and its basically how china is today. I really hope china dies

I will react for high effort.

Just read this to get a glimpse of their society:

An American Consul related to me a personally witnessed occurrence at a place up the Yangtze where he was stationed, one that strikes a Westerner as incredible, but which would not impress a native Chinese as anything remarkable. It happened that a sampan loaded down with a cargo of live pigs, and crowded also with Chinese, was caught in a treacherous current and overturned a little distance from the shore. The Chinese and pigs aboard were spilled out into the water. A number of other Chinese along the shore, seeing the upset, immediately put out to the scene in their own boats, and began greedily picking up the live pigs swimming about. The drowning and pleading humans who wailed to be taken aboard were knocked on the head as fast as they swam to the arriving boats, and were all washed downstream and drowned. The Chinese minute men of the sampans returned in high glee with their unexpected catch of fresh pork, and life went on as usual.

 

[Deleted member 4804]

Just read this to get a glimpse of their society:

Fuark man thats why we shouldnt ever get dominated by chinese cucks
I know i hate the west and merica but china is 10 times worse

 

[LordNorwood]

Encountered this before on /pol/ lol
Fascinating stuff ngl

 

[Deleted member 1209]

good example of asian sociopathy

 

[stuckneworleans]

good example of asian sociopathy

Very good movie

 

[ChaddeusPeuterschmit]

dn rd but gooks are savage ppl

 

[stuckneworleans]

dn rd but gooks are savage ppl

How'd it go bro? Are you back at home again or what?

 

[Deleted member 3177]

I fucking hate Chinese shittards. Those niggers come to my country to escape their contaminated shithole and the only thing they do is overpower the locals and set up supermarkets. Fucking dog eating niggers literally need to disappear from the face of the Earth. I have never known any people more annoying, brute and negligent than the Chinese. They don't work, they sit on their asses and bother the locals. I'll seriously kill all the Chinese in my area some day

FBI faggots BTFO

 

[ChaddeusPeuterschmit]

How'd it go bro? Are you back at home again or what?

ya man thanks

 

[lookismfugee]

chinese were pretty nice with me believe or not

 

[Blackout.xl]

Yes. Chinks are a very disgusting people. Their culture is dishonourable. The Japanese have said this for centuries.

 

[Gazzamogga]

Didn't read but they eat dogs so that's all I need to know

 

[Krezo]

Keep crying for chinks

 

[reptiles]

Encountered this before on /pol/ lol
Fascinating stuff ngl

If any man is getting their facts from pol I would seriously disregard their credibility

 

[Griffith]

If any man is getting their facts from pol I would seriously disregard their credibility

I didn't get it from /pol/ though.

 

[ElliotRodgerJr]

Hmmmmmmmm but I like their women doe
Too bad the men stick to themselves and I can’t befriend them

 

[Fubarcel]

There's a series of historical adventure books called the Asian Saga, by James Clavell, one of them was set in China and basically it expanded on the 'it is what it is' attitude that dictates life there. The fact that the author said India did well back then comparatively maybe indicates it's a religion thing, every other country grew up with a religion, Japan had Shinto, but I can't think of one that's distinct to the Chinese, only Buddhism comes to mind when I think of religion and China together.
Anyway it just shows nothing's permanent, India fell and China became a titan, who knows what'll happen in the future, keep your chin up my fellow currycels!

 

[reptiles]

I didn't get it from /pol/ though.

Dind't say you were but what the original guy was implying was you were

 

[Griffith]

Dind't say you were but what the original guy was implying was you were

Aight we cool then boyo

 

[reptiles]

Aight we cool then boyo

Yes

 

[auboutduprecipice]

 

[Griffith]

Oy vey anothel shoah

 

[RaciallyAndrogynous]

What would have become of China if US companies never used them for cheap labour?

 

[RaciallyAndrogynous]

good example of asian sociopathy

This too

 

[Deleted member 2854]

Nice prose. Chinese are definitely a different fucking species. They are extremely weird, anti-social and generally a nuisance

 

[Marsiere214]

I still wanna fuck them

 

[Deleted member 11675]

I don't understand, high IQ but still lost against the Jews and white men? Asian intelligence is a myth.