Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.

We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: ‘Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.’

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

The idea of progress has a couple of contradictions … it leads to Eurocenterism….

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

Latins are macho, they hate gringos and they hate gringos’ wives. What else do you want to know?

... a fixed obsession on Anglo-Saxon superiority.

I don't trust most journalists who belong to Anglo Saxon stock because we know what your inclinations are.

We should wake up and tell ourselves: You're not a xenophobe, you're not a racist, you're not a crazy guy if you say, 'My culture is better than yours.'

I have had strangers come up to me and attempt to mimic the Chinese language in a derogatory manner. I have been told countless times that I speak 'good' English. I have been asked why someone like me would be interested in watching NFL football. On any given day, if I walk around with a camera, I will be mistaken for a tourist from Asia.

President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.

People say they don't want to call a call-centre in India. Why not? They're doing the same job - you just don't like Indians.

The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

[Michelle Malkin] has been supporting a party which includes most of the idiots in this country who would judge her entirely and exclusively on her [Filipino] appearance.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.