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>>Animals can't talk like people! Amazing!

Whoa that's quite a ridiculous accusation of Chinese being racists, a gross generalization too

I only remember Dashan's performance quite vaguely because I was really young when he was still enjoying a lot of media exposure in China (naturally not anymore nowadays), but my family were and perhaps still are quite fond of him and I never feel there's negative side to it

I think his popularity in China could very well be attributed to the fact that him being from the (then) economically much superior western countries and so invested in the traditional Chinese culture at the same time. It brought a sense of identification and pride to a lot of Chinese people. Remind you he became famous in 1988, one of the most turbulent years in China's history, and there was a huge debate on whether China should be westernized going on at the same time

But "negative, dismissive stereotypes about foreigners as something like animals"? That's so 1800s to Chinese