Kublai-Khan
Prince
I just have seen a documental in the history channel about the rebellion of the boxers and i want to ask what do the people here think about that rebellion and its motivations and if it was a justified revolt against imperialist power or a genocidal and barbaric act against foreigners and christianity.
The documental really shocked me, all i knew about the rebellion was that the boxers thought that they were immune to bullets wich was just a funny anecdote to me.
According to the documental the boxers with the agreement of the queen (whats the female equivalent for emperor in english?)
tried to annihilate completely all the "white" foreigners who were living in China and even chinese christians to get rid of all western influence.
I know that what iam going to say is frivol, but
as a latin america a land that was/is full of dictatorships, revolutions, popular demonstrations, corrupt governments and inmperialistic exploitation i dont know what to think about the boxer rebellion.
It might be justified because those foreigners were exploiting the chinese and i bet that the opio war and their economical policies killed far more chinese citizens than europeans who died during the boxer revolts, but
the boxer revolt sounds like a genocide to me, to kill all christians and foreigners is plain genocidal.
Even though the revolt must be justified because of the explotaition killing all the people is bad bad, the prosperity of the jews in germany was one of the facts that caused resentment in the population and maybe allowed hitler to commit his plan without popular opposition.I talk about the ghetto segregation, not about the genocide bacause i think most of the people didnt know about what was going on.
As a white christian guy it seemed scary to me.
But maybe all of what i have spoken is bull****, i mean i am a 17 years old who occasionally reads about history and its far more interested in ancient than this, all i know about the boxer rebellion is what i just have seen in tv, and maybe it was pure propaganda this is why i ask this here, many people seem to know a lot about china here.
The documental really shocked me, all i knew about the rebellion was that the boxers thought that they were immune to bullets wich was just a funny anecdote to me.
According to the documental the boxers with the agreement of the queen (whats the female equivalent for emperor in english?)
tried to annihilate completely all the "white" foreigners who were living in China and even chinese christians to get rid of all western influence.
I know that what iam going to say is frivol, but
as a latin america a land that was/is full of dictatorships, revolutions, popular demonstrations, corrupt governments and inmperialistic exploitation i dont know what to think about the boxer rebellion.
It might be justified because those foreigners were exploiting the chinese and i bet that the opio war and their economical policies killed far more chinese citizens than europeans who died during the boxer revolts, but
the boxer revolt sounds like a genocide to me, to kill all christians and foreigners is plain genocidal.
Even though the revolt must be justified because of the explotaition killing all the people is bad bad, the prosperity of the jews in germany was one of the facts that caused resentment in the population and maybe allowed hitler to commit his plan without popular opposition.I talk about the ghetto segregation, not about the genocide bacause i think most of the people didnt know about what was going on.
As a white christian guy it seemed scary to me.
But maybe all of what i have spoken is bull****, i mean i am a 17 years old who occasionally reads about history and its far more interested in ancient than this, all i know about the boxer rebellion is what i just have seen in tv, and maybe it was pure propaganda this is why i ask this here, many people seem to know a lot about china here.