INTL 190 - Haiti in a Transnational Context

Comparison

Haiti and China were both invaded by colonialism. China was invaded for a hundred years by lots of countries, and Haiti was suffering for a longer time. Their influence was equally profound.

1. Stigmatization (click for more information)
First, both China and Haiti have been stigmatized by the Western media. Media put the label "Sick Man of East Asia" to China and the "French Negroes" to Haiti.Images of incompetent Chinese and evil enslaved people were transmitted through the media in the past.

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2. Unrecorded or cover up the fact (click for more information)
Second, both China and Haiti have a complicated history that is hard to document, and some people are trying to modify this history.
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