Topic: news An Anxious Beijing to Departing Expats: “Please Stay, Guests from Far Away.”

That one "guest" tried escaping the racism tag by playing the card that Chinese are equal to everybody in their usage of "Lao Wai" (Basically being racist against everybody but themselves, so that cannot classify as racism. How delightful, no? ) The concept is definitely racially influenced though - but in a reverse order from what you traditionally think of as racism (Instead of saying, if you are X, then you are a ____(Racial slur here) Chinese say If you are NOT ______ (race term here, which would be an ethnicity of China) , then you are a Laowai. Their statement is racially based and is as exclusive as traditional forms of racism are, it just reverses the order. Erthioso mentioned Xenophobia, which I think indeed is the most correct word in this case. I'd like to still argue for the word racism too, though, because Xenophobia in its basic form is also racism. China, being an non-integrated society, requires the two to overlap at a point, both sharing a middle point but each having a different emphasis. Xenophobes here are racist while being xenophobic. Are they racist because they are xenophobic, or xenophobic because they are racist? Or am I simply repeating the same question twice in different words? I'd say for all the Chinese that I met that were not xenophobic, they were also not racist, and that for the ones that I met that were xenophobic, they were definitely racist at the same time. I think with China, these two words tend to mean the same thing. Thoughts ?