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yellow peril or Yellow Peril

n. Offensive

Threatened expansion of Asian populations as magnified in the Western imagination.

yellow peril

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the power or alleged power of Asiatic peoples, esp the Chinese, to threaten or destroy the supremacy of White or Western civilization

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yellow peril - the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples

menace, threat - something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"

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