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America’s collective national body is suffering from a chronic case of China anxiety. Nearly anything with the word “Chinese” in front of it now triggers a fear response in US political system. (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] insaan@leftopia.org 3 points 6 months ago

Unpaywalled link: https://archive.is/6RhUG

Wait until the New York Times finds out that the New York Times is one of the biggest propagators of sinophobia.

Also this bit is interesting:

The amygdala is a pair of neural clusters near the base of the brain that assesses danger and can help prompt a fight-or-flight response. A prolonged stress response may contribute to anxiety, which can cause people to perceive danger where there is none and obsess about worst-case scenarios.

At least one study has shown that conservatives tend to have a larger right amygdala: Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults

We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala.