Yellow Peril Definition
noun
The threat to Western civilization presented by Asian peoples, esp. those of China or Japan: concept widely believed during the late 19th and early 20th cent. in North America, Europe, and Australia.
Webster's New World
(derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) East Asian nations or peoples, conceived as threatening.
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