The issue of race and discrimination has been brought to light recently after a black female performer appeared on a reality show in China.
Lo Jing has a father who she never met that is black, and a Chinese mother. Lo Jing was born and raised in China with no knowledge of any other culture.
After being a contestant on "Go Oriental Angel" the lessons of race and discrimination were quickly learned.
Born and raised in Shanghai by her Chinese single mother, Lou Jing, a half African-American half Chinese aspiring singer, experienced very little discrimination during childhood. However after she appeared on the Chinese reality television show called Lets Go! Oriental Angels, Lou Jing gained national fame and notoriety largely for her skin color.
After the contest started, I often got more attention than the other girls. It made me feel strange, Lou said.
The reality show hosts fondly called her chocolate girl and black pearl. The Chinese media fixated on her skin color. Netizens flooded Web sites with comments saying she never should have been born and telling her to get out of China.
We lived in a small circle before, said her mother. But after Lou was seen nationwide, some Chinese people couldnt accept her.
Even well meaning friends and family members revealed widespread ignorance about Lou Jings racial difference:
Sometimes people on the street would ask me, Why do you speak Chinese so well? Id just say, Because Im Chinese! Lou said.
She used to wonder why she had black skin, said one classmate. We thought about this question together and decided to tell her its because she likes dark chocolate. So her skin turned darker gradually.
Another classmate weighed in, We said its because she used to drink too much soy sauce.
Even Lou Jings maternal grandmother admitted in a taped interview, I told Lou Jing she was black because her mom was not very well and had to take Chinese medicine.
Here are some of the actual comments posted on websites about Lou Jing and her mother:
Shanghai peoples value plunges. A bastard, brought her out to show off because of the foreigner descent.
Is this the legend of the bastard? And an unwanted bastard, Her mother is a shameless woman, pregnant by a black guy, and then abandoned, was it good when he was pleasing you? Still obsessed with him after several decades? Not feel ashamed, even go on TV to look, looking for what? Looking for lost big XX? Looking for climax never had again? Shameless! Why are Shanghai women always the target of criticism? Its because of shameless b!$%h like her! Dragon TV please help this bastard find her family. Let the black father with a big XX hurry back, address this old womans needs! Black Dad, come back soon! Someone cannot forget your big XX.
This woman has no sense of shame, married and you cheat, give birth to a black kid so there is no way to hide, if wasnt for that her husband will have to raise their children. Cheap is the word, in order to run with a foreigner, even do with black people.