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Q:What color metaphor for race originated in the late nineteenth century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the US?
Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) The term refers to the skin color of East Asians, and the belief that the mass immigration of Asians threatened white wages and standards of living. Many sources credit Kaiser Wilhelm II with coining the phrase “Yellow Peril” (in German, “gelbe Gefahr”) in September 1895