yellow horde
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[edit]Noun
[edit]yellow horde (plural yellow hordes)
- (derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) East Asian nations or people, especially the people of China or Japan, conceived as foreign and menacing due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.
- 1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia, New York: Random House, page 26:
- As we rode slowly over the Lunghai Line toward Sianfu, across the brown sun-baked plains of Northern Honan, soon to be flooded when the Chinese breached the Yellow River dikes to stop the advancing Yellow Horde, we passed many troop trains en-route to the front.
- 1994 December 18, Steven Erlanger, “The World: Demons in Russia's Mind Arise Again—in the Flesh”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 July 2008:
- So the Chinese and Central Asians are the barbaric, faceless, yellow horde that may once again drown the noble Slavs.
Usage notes
[edit]- Often used in the plural form.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]racially offensive term denoting East Asian nations or people
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