{"id":1424819,"date":"2022-04-08T00:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T04:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424819"},"modified":"2022-04-08T00:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T04:44:50","slug":"chinese-media-satirical-play-man-in-headdress-claims-u-s-brought-retardation-to-natives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-media-satirical-play-man-in-headdress-claims-u-s-brought-retardation-to-natives\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Media &#039;Satirical Play&#039;: Man in Headdress Claims U.S. Brought &#039;Retardation&#039; to Natives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-media-satirical-play-man-in-headdress-claims-u-s-brought-retardation-to-natives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424819&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Daily<\/em>, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, published a video on its webpage on Wednesday described as a \u201csatirical play\u201d showing a Chinese man in a headdress pretending to be a member of the Native American Shoshone tribe, accusing America of \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video furthers a years-long campaign by the Party \u2014 itself committing genocide against the indigenous people of East Turkistan today \u2014 to accuse America of human rights abuses in an attempt to discredit any criticism of China\u2019s abysmal human rights record. China\u2019s record is particularly egregious against indigenous communities in areas where the Han Chinese are not the majority, such as East Turkistan, occupied Tibet, and Inner Mongolia, where dictator Xi Jinping has outlawed teaching local languages and crushed religious and cultural practices.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Chinese government media also has a growing record of offensive depictions of foreign cultures in visual propaganda, prompting worldwide outrage after featuring Chinese performers in \u201cblackface\u201d on two separate occasions during state television\u2019s annual Lunar New Year extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csatirical play\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2022\/0406\/c90000-10080512.html\">posted<\/a> online on Wednesday, which did not contain any apparent jokes, featured a\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Daily<\/em> personality interviewing the man about American nuclear weapons tests in the western United States in the 1950s. The man appears onscreen and pouts, to which the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Daily<\/em> host, a woman, asks, \u201cHey, what\u2019s wrong? Why so sad?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAmerican government had nuclear tests on our territory,\u201d the \u201cnative\u201d man replies. \u201cThis is genocide!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man goes on to say, speaking in the voice of a Shoshone tribe member, \u201cMy fellow tribesmen\u2019s health has been devastated. Many local people suffered developmental retardation, leukemia, and various types of cancers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s so detestable,\u201d the woman replies.<\/p>\n<p>At one point during the \u201csatirical play,\u201d the slogan, \u201cthe road to the founding of the United States was the genocide of the Indians,\u201d appears on the screen. The play also claims \u201cAmerican media,\u201d without specifying, call the Shoshone land \u201cthe most bombed land on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Native American rights to the treatment of Black Americans, the U.S. is a pseudo defender of human rights that actually disregards human rights in practice,\u201d the caption on the video reads.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Shoshone are a large tribe consisting of several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legendsofamerica.com\/na-shoshone\/\">communities<\/a> throughout Nevada and Idaho. Perhaps the most prominent historical Shoshone historical figure outside of the Native American community is Sacagawea, the guide who helped European explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark map out the territory obtained through the Louisiana Purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Daily<\/em> gave no indication that any members of the Shoshone community were involved in the production of the video.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Native American ethnic groups do not typically use headdresses as casual wear; the items can carry tremendous significance, either as religious and ceremonial items or to be worn at times of war or other major changes. Historical <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.archives.gov\/id\/530919\">photos<\/a> of Shoshone people do not appear to show headdresses worn casually, nor do photos of Shoshone headdresses bear any overt resemblance to the item the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Daily\u00a0<\/em>actor wore in the video.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20564993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-2920020.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Shoshone-Bannock High School NASA club in Fort Hall, Idaho, perform a healing ceremony after a memorial ceremony for fallen astronauts at the Space Mirror Memorial in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, February 1, 2004. (Matt Stroshane\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Native American activists have for years condemned the wearing of headdresses as fashion statements or costumes by people outside of their communities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCostumes that mock Native peoples, defame our traditions and cultures, and perpetuate negative stereotypes are racist,\u201d IllumiNative, a group that <a href=\"https:\/\/illuminatives.org\/\">defines<\/a> its goal as challenging \u201cthe negative narrative that surrounds\u201d Native Americans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/03\/24\/bravo-apologizes-after-real-housewives-star-wears-native-american-costume\/\">said<\/a> last year in response to a <em>Real Housewives<\/em> celebrity wearing a headdress on the Bravo program. \u201c\u2018Playing Indian\u2019 is a form of mascotry that is not just offensive, it is part of a long history of how Native peoples have been dehumanized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Native American organizations have also objected to the mass marketing of headdresses for profit. In 2012, the Navajo nation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/mar\/01\/navajo-nation-sues-urban-outfitters\">sued<\/a> retailer Urban Outfitters for a series of products marketed as \u201cNavajo\u201d garb with no relation to the indigenous community and no profits going to the alleged originators of the designs.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party regularly uses ethnic and racial minorities in America as a cudgel to condemn America for observing China\u2019s rampant human rights violations, including atrocities such as slavery, live organ harvesting, and genocide. Last year, in a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Politburo member Yang Jiechi cited the \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d movement as delegitimizing America as a human rights voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn human rights, we hope the United States will do better on human rights. China has made steady progress in human rights, and the fact is that there are many problems within the United States regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S. itself as well,\u201d Yang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/03\/18\/china-rebukes-bidens-foreign-policy-team-cites-black-lives-matter-on-u-s-human-rights-abuses\/\">claimed<\/a>. \u201cThe challenges facing the United States in human rights are deep-seated. They did not just emerge over the past four years, such as \u2018Black Lives Matter.\u2019 It did not come up only recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blinken and Sullivan reportedly did not challenge the Chinese official on his claims, despite no significant evidence that Chinese officials have moved to improve the country\u2019s human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s record of racism towards Africans is poor, just as its record of discrimination against indigenous communities leaves much to be designed. In 2018, China\u2019s CCTV state broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/02\/16\/chinese-state-television-airs-one-belt-one-road-blackface-routine-lunar-new-year\/\">aired<\/a> a Lunar New Year program featuring Chinese people in \u201cblackface\u201d pretending to be Africans who love the Communist Party. The sketch, like the \u201csatirical play\u201d on Native Americans, featured Chinese people speaking on behalf of entire African communities, praising China for its alleged help in development.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than apologizing for the international offense the \u201cblackface\u201d skit caused, CCTV again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/02\/12\/china-airs-blackface-show-again-for-lunar-new-year\/\">featured<\/a> Han Chinese people in black face paint pretending to be African in the 2021 version of its Lunar New Year special.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649240693212000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2G1_7aOrrFB8JlYvlf1xV8\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649240693212000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3KS-3uKdKCZwSOvHwnFV6G\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0People\u2019s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, published a video on its webpage on Wednesday described as a \u201csatirical play\u201d showing a Chinese man in a headdress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}