Yellow Peril

Definition: Yellow Peril

Yellow Peril

Noun

1. The threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples.

Modern Usage: Yellow Peril

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Chocolate covered yellow peril! (The Last Dragon; writing credit: Louis Venosta)
Movie/TV Titles	The Yellow Peril (1915) London's Yellow Peril (1915) The Yellow Peril (1908)
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Specialty Definition: Yellow peril

Yellow Peril was a phrase that originated in the late 19th century with greater immigration of Chinese and Japanese laborers to the United States. The term refers to the yellow skin of east Asians.

The yellow peril manifested itself in government policy with the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which reduced Chinese immigration from 30,000 per year to just 1,000. The labor leader Samuel Gompers argued, "The superior whites had to exclude the inferior Asiatics, by law, or, if necessary, by force of arms."

In 1920, the author Lothrop Stoddard wrote The Rising Tide of Color arguing against Asian immigration, claiming immigrants threatened American society, with their presence a "peril."

External link

Yellow Man's Land by Lothrop Stoddard

Commercial Usage: Yellow Peril

Domain	Title
Books	In Search of an Enemy: Wen Ho Lee and the Revival of the Yellow Peril (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression: Yellow Peril

Modern Translation: Yellow Peril

Language		Translations for "yellow peril"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		gelbe gefahr. (various references)

Hungarian		sárga veszedelem. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		黄禍 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うか (chrysanthemum, coin, depression, descent, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, engineering course, evaluation, fall, furlough, gelatinization, hardening, high price, landing, leave of absence, loud singing, marriage of an Imperial princess to a subject, merits and demerits, mineralize, overhead structure, public imposts, rating, result, school song, sclerosis, taxes, toilet, vulcanization). (various references)

Pig Latin		yelloway erilpay

Turkish		sarı ırkın egemenliği tehlikesi (the yellow peril). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Yellow Peril

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	Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-l-l-o-p-r-w-y"
	-3 letters: yellower.
	-4 letters: leerily, lowlier, pillory, pillowy.
	-5 letters: eerily, eloper, loller, lowery, pillow, plower, pollee, poller, pylori, repoll, ripely, ropily, wellie, willer, yeller, yellow, yelper, yowler.
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Expression using "yellow peril": the yellow peril. Additional references.
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Yellow Peril

Definition: Yellow Peril

Yellow Peril

Noun

Modern Usage: Yellow Peril

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Specialty Definition: Yellow peril

External link

Commercial Usage: Yellow Peril

Books

Expression: Yellow Peril

Modern Translation: Yellow Peril

German

Hungarian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Pig Latin

Turkish

Anagrams: Yellow Peril

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