Liu Haiyang, a 21 year old electromechanical major at Tsinghua University (China's answer to MIT), poured sulfuric acid on five bears at the Beijing Zoo while pretending to feed them. Before being caught, Haiyang had similarly assaulted the bears once before. He told authorities his actions were an experiment to test their intelligence. A zoo official stated that the bears, listed as protected animals, have since had trouble seeing.

One especially disturbing aspect is that Mr. Haiyang is one of the elite minds of China. It is difficult to imagine a White student at a prestigious American university having a similar depraved tendency to torture animals. Asian cruelty is not limited to animals. American soldiers in the Korean and Vietnam wars gained first hand knowledge of Asian cruelty. Torture was the rule, not the exception.

In contrast, American prisoners in Germany during World War Two were treated humanely and 99 percent survived the war. A small number died in captivity from wounds received in combat. Many terribly wounded American soldiers such as Bob Dole received medical care from the Germans and survived while an Asian enemy would typically "finish off" enemy soldiers that badly wounded.

Haiyang's deed adds to the myriad anecdotes long in circulation recording the characteristic Asian cruelty. "Characteristic," the sensitive skeptic might ask? Stereotypes persist because they contain a kernel of truth, maybe more. We are better served interpreting news such as Haiyang's "experiment" through a framework that boldly confronts reality as it is, not as modern political correctness might wish it to be. Human beings make decisions great and small based, in part, on recognizing patterns. In this era of "global cultural exchange," more information is better than less.

I had the opportunity to do some sightseeing in San Francisco last August. My travels brought me to Pier 39, where scores of sea lions bask in the sun upon floating docks. Quite a difference was discernible in the attitude of White and non-White tourists toward the sea lions. Whites lingered on the platform above the water, fixed in awe at the animals barking twelve feet below. They smiled, pointed, snapped pictures and recorded reels of videotape.

In contrast, the non-white tourists and particularly the few Asians present, turned their noses up at the sight of the creatures. One could easily tell that they found the sea lions nothing more than nasty and smelly things. The Asian tourists were quick to move on.

The proprietors of Pier 39 did not interfere with the sea lions when they first populated K-dock in January of 1990. In fact, the owners allowed the sea lions to use the docks partially due to the inflow of cash from tourists coming to see the animals. Judging from the behavior of the Asian tourists, were this to happen in a fully Asiatic Vancouver instead of San Francisco, the story might be different: the fire hoses would have been broken out, and the sea lions would be a distant memory.

Haiyang's experiment and the Asian tourists fit nicely within the link theorized between conservation, conservatism, and culture proposed by Steve Sailer, president of the Human Biodiversity Institute. Sailer writes in his online piece with VDARE, "Immigration vs. Environmentalism," "only 7% of the Sierra Club's 550,000 members are minorities of any kind, compared to about 28% of the entire population." Sailer skillfully deploys this statistic to show that concern for the environment may indeed be "a white thing."

Following up this idea in his VDARE piece, "Conservatives vs. Conservation: How the GOP Drives off White Voters," Sailer does not go as far as to say that this non-White aversion to nature is a genetic quality. Perhaps this is because he need not make that claim to prove his larger point. Much as Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein suggest in "The Bell Curve," it is irrelevant (in the practical sense) whether the root cause of a behavioral pattern is hereditary or environmental. Such academic questions have no impact on the reality that the stereotype encapsulates.

James Chan, writing online for the Chinese Historical Society of America, complains in his piece, "'Rough on Rats' -Racism and Advertising in the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century," about prevailing stereotypes attached to Asians, which would imaginably include the animal-abuser tag. Chan notes that the racist, unfair "loaded image" and "generalities" advanced about Asians are that they are "sneaky, crafty, inscrutable." Not that Haiyang's bait-and-switch, acid-for-food routine at the Beijing Zoo fits that description, however unflattering.

While many Americans rush to praise Asians for being an intelligent minority race (in contrast to the equatorial minority races, who are mostly devoid of intelligence), there are still inherent personality traits hard-wired by their genes. White people look on collies or German shepherds as loveable pets while Koreans and Cambodians view them as lunch. White soldiers believe that prisoners of war must be treated according to rules. Asians see prisoners as opportunities for torture.

Still, many White Americans think that Asians will be magically transformed by American culture and lose any tendencies toward brutality or cruelty after they've lived here a while. There is, however, one thing these naive Whites should keep in mind. The FBI agent, who pulled the trigger at Ruby Ridge and shot Vicki Weaver through the head as she held her baby, was an Asian-American.

1).Student Detained for Pouring Acid on Bears
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