Massimo Serra

Opium and Western Perception of the Chinese abroad Massimo Serra

Exotic dreams and fear. A century may have been passed but the way humanity create stereotypes is not chanced so much. The flow of the perception of the 'Milk of Paradise', as it has been called once Opium, flutuates along time and space to generate contemporary parallels. Survival instincts creates stereotypes in society in order to avoid fears of the foreign and the unknown. This book give an insight of understanding our modern time and it is useful in analysing how perceptions and behaviour became accepted as reality by the masses, and even if may vary over time, it explains how ignorance and prejudice may start to become the new threat for society.